Choosing & sizing
Is there a free trial or a free VPS?
OnionVPS does not offer a free trial. Instead there is a seven-day money-back guarantee on a first order: if the service does not suit you, tell us within seven days of provisioning and we refund in full to an address you nominate. The entry plan is $4, which makes the risk small either way.
Free trials exist mainly to filter fraud, and they require exactly the identity verification we have built the service to avoid. A short, unconditional refund window achieves the same outcome without collecting a document.
Genuinely free VPS offers are almost always one of three things: an OpenVZ container with 128 MB of oversold memory, a time-limited hyperscaler credit that requires a card, or a service that monetises you some other way.
See also: Provisioning · OpenVZ
7 answers in Choosing & sizing
- What is a VPS? A VPS (virtual private server) is a virtual machine with guaranteed CPU, memory and storage, running its own operating system on shared physical hardw…
- What is a VPS used for? A VPS runs anything that needs to be online continuously: websites and APIs, game servers, VPN and proxy endpoints, mail servers, trading bots, CI run…
- How much does a VPS cost? A usable VPS starts at about $4 a month for 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 20 GB of NVMe storage. A production instance with dedicated cores, 8 GB of RAM and…
- What is the cheapest VPS that is actually usable? About $4 a month buys 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 20 GB of NVMe on real KVM virtualisation. That is genuinely enough for a WireGuard VPN, a DNS resolver, …
- How much RAM does a VPS need? Match RAM to the workload, not to a price tier. 1 GB runs a VPN, DNS resolver or small bot. 2–4 GB runs a small website with a database. 8 GB is the c…
- How many vCPUs does a VPS need? Most workloads need fewer cores than people buy. One shared core saturates a gigabit VPN link. Two dedicated cores run a busy website. Four run a game…