Constant (Choopa)

What Constant (Choopa) actually is

This listing needs an honesty warning before anything else: the brand in our database no longer sells anything under its own name. Choopa was a New Jersey dedicated-server and colocation business with roots going back to 2001, run by David Aninowsky's hosting group alongside GameServers.com, ReliableServers, and UnmeteredServers. In 2014 that group launched Vultr as its cloud brand. In 2021 it introduced the Constant name for the parent, and in 2022 it consolidated all legacy hosting brands — Choopa included — under Vultr. The legacy billing system stopped accepting payments on December 7, 2022, existing servers kept running without a price change, and choopa.com now points at Vultr. In our view, anyone searching for "Choopa dedicated servers" today should read this page as: what you are actually buying is The Constant Company's platform, which is marketed at constant.com and operated as Vultr.

That platform is not small. Constant's own site claims more than 1.5 million customers and 33 cloud regions on six continents, and the product line is what you would expect from an independent hyperscaler-alternative: Cloud Compute (shared and dedicated-core VMs), High Performance VMs on AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon with NVMe, single-tenant Bare Metal, GPU clusters from NVIDIA and AMD, block and S3-compatible object storage, managed databases, load balancers, and a managed Kubernetes service. The company is US-based — The Constant Company, LLC is organized in New Jersey with its principal office at 319 Clematis St, West Palm Beach, Florida.

The tagline in our DB ("full control and predictable performance") still describes the bare metal line well. What it does not describe is the brand confusion, which is the single biggest reason this entry keeps a modest rating despite strong underlying infrastructure.

Pricing: what you really pay

Vultr publishes prices in public and bills hourly, capped at 672 hours per month, so a server running a full 31-day month costs the same as a 28-day month. Entry Cloud Compute is a $2.50 per month IPv6-only sandbox instance (limited to two per account); the $3.50 per month plan adds IPv4 and is limited to five. The High Performance line starts at $6.00 per month ($0.009 per hour) for 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 25 GB NVMe / 2 TB transfer and steps up through 1 vCPU / 2 GB at $12.00 per month, 2 vCPU / 4 GB at $24.00 per month (5 TB transfer), and 8 vCPU / 16 GB at $96.00 per month (8 TB transfer).

Bare metal — the product this listing is really about — starts at $0.179 per hour, which at the 672-hour cap works out to roughly $120 per month for the entry configuration: an Intel E3-1270 with 4 cores / 8 threads at 3.8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2 x 240 GB SSD, 5 TB bandwidth, and a 10 Gbps network port. From there the range runs through AMD EPYC 4245P and 4345P boxes (6 cores, 32-128 GB RAM, NVMe, 25 Gbps) and Intel E-2288G / E-2388G machines with 8 cores and 128 GB RAM, up to dual EPYC 7713 systems with 128 cores and 2 TB RAM on 25 Gbps. GPU bare metal is quoted per GPU per hour on pre-paid terms: NVIDIA L40S systems from $0.848 per GPU per hour, A100 PCIe clusters from $1.290, MI300X from $1.750, and HGX B200 systems from $3.500 per GPU per hour — the last of these, 8 x B200 with 3 TB RAM and 400 Gbps GPU networking, is firmly in "call sales" territory.

Watch the add-ons. DDoS protection beyond the built-in mitigation costs $10 per month per instance for 10 Gbps of filtering capacity. Snapshots are stored at $0.05 per GB per month. Automated backups are billed as a percentage of the instance plan. Additional IPv4 addresses are extra. On the plus side, ingress and standard egress allowances are generous on bare metal (5-25 TB depending on the box), and the pricing page is a real price page, not a "contact us" wall except at the very top of the GPU range.

Performance & infrastructure

We have not benchmarked current Vultr bare metal ourselves, so we will stick to what is published and what independent reviewers have measured on the virtual line. Better Stack's 2026 review of a $24-per-month High Performance instance (2 vCPU / 8 GB on AMD EPYC Genoa) found CPU performance above the price class, strong NVMe numbers, and network peering that held up both across US regions and transatlantic to Europe. On the bare metal side the specs are unambiguous because you get the whole machine: 10-25 Gbps ports, dual NVMe or SSD in RAID-capable configurations, cloud-init support, and self-service Vultr Clusters for on-demand groups of bare metal nodes without reservations.

Networking is a genuine strength. Vultr peers globally (public ASN 20473), offers BGP sessions with full IPv4 and IPv6 tables for customers with their own IP space, private networking/VPC, floating IPs, a free Anycast DNS service, and a cloud firewall with IPv4/IPv6 rules. IPv6 is available in all 33 regions. The platform's reliability commitment is one of the strongest published in this market: a 100% uptime SLA covering both network and host-node availability, backed by service credits — on paper ahead of DigitalOcean's 99.99%.

The catalog is broad: managed databases, load balancers, S3-compatible object storage (full S3 API, with a published compatibility matrix), one-click apps, custom ISO uploads, and GPU compute from single L40S nodes to eight-way H100 and B200 clusters. For AI and rendering workloads, this is one of the few independent providers that can quote capacity at that scale.

Where it falls short

Start with the obvious: the brand in this listing is retired. If you want the 2001-era Choopa experience — a named account manager and a hand-built dedicated box — you are now inside the Vultr platform, with its self-service console, ticket-based support, and standard contracts. Nothing is broken about that, but it is not what the DB name implies.

Then there is the cost picture. Bare metal entry at roughly $120 per month is materially more expensive than European specialists (Hetzner, Cherry Servers, Scaleway sell comparable-era hardware for less), and the DDoS add-on at $10 per month per instance is an annoyance when competitors bundle mitigation. Cloud Compute pricing is mid-pack: $6.00 per month for 1 vCPU / 1 GB is not bad, but it is 50%+ above the cheapest EU providers at the same spec, and you pay for it in exchange for 33 regions and the platform breadth. Billing quirks exist too — stopped instances on some product lines still bill, and hourly caps plus percentage-based backup pricing mean costs can creep if you do not audit them.

Finally, support quality is the usual big-platform story: competent, ticket-driven, and not the white-glove service a small provider gives its top accounts. We would not put a latency-critical trading stack on it without testing support response times first.

Who should pick this

We'd pick the Constant/Vultr platform when you want one API and one bill across 33 regions for a mix of VMs, bare metal, GPUs, and storage — global game backends, edge deployments, CI/CD fleets, and AI teams that need H100/B200-class hardware without a hyperscaler contract all fit. The 100% SLA and credit-backed terms make it defensible for production. Teams standardizing on Terraform and the Vultr CLI get a mature automation surface.

We would look elsewhere for cheap EU bare metal (Hetzner, Cherry Servers), for hands-on managed operations, or if a US-only parent company is a compliance problem for your data. And if you literally came here for Choopa: the servers you remember are now Vultr bare metal, and there is no way to order under the old brand.

Key takeaways

• Choopa (roots 2001) was folded into Vultr in 2022; legacy billing stopped December 7, 2022, and choopa.com redirects to Vultr. This listing effectively reviews The Constant Company platform.
• 33 regions worldwide, 1.5M+ customers claimed, US-based parent (The Constant Company, LLC, West Palm Beach, FL).
• Hourly billing capped at 672 hours/month: Cloud Compute from $2.50/mo (IPv6-only) or $3.50/mo (IPv4); High Performance from $6.00/mo.
• Bare metal entry is about $120/mo ($0.179/hr): Intel E3-1270, 4 cores, 32 GB RAM, 2 x 240 GB SSD, 5 TB transfer, 10 Gbps port.
• 100% uptime SLA (network and host node, credit-backed) — stronger on paper than most rivals; IPv6 in all regions; BGP and BYOIP supported.
• Extras cost: DDoS filtering $10/mo per instance, snapshots $0.05/GB/mo, backups billed as a share of the instance price.

Sources

• https://constant.com
• https://constant.com/transition-to-vultr
• https://whtop.com/review/choopa.com
• https://aninowsky.com
• https://e.hawaii.gov/documents/business.html?fileNumber=208860C6
• https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
• https://www.vultr.com/products/bare-metal/
• https://docs.vultr.com/product-overviews/bare-metal
• https://www.vultr.com/faq
• https://www.vultr.com/resources/faq/
• https://www.vultr.com/products/object-storage/
• https://betterstack.com/community/guides/web-servers/vultr-review/
• https://hostline.io/blog/bare-metal-servers-for-cpu-2026/