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Stock: what the site shows
"buyvm stock" is the search that brings most people here, so this is what BuyVM's own site showed in September 2026. The slice page's order section has a location selector labelled "Please choose a location" with "Out of stock" as its state, and immediately below it a banner: "Out of Stock, It's Available on Cloudzy! Discover plans on our sister company, Cloudzy." The address buyvm.net/stock, which older guides link to as a stock tracker, now returns a page reading "Woops. It seems that the page you're looking for is currently not available." So there is no published stock feed; the order form is the source of truth, and the company's own answer to "sold out" is its sister brand.
This page does not say whether a slice is available today, because it cannot. What it can say is how to check in thirty seconds: open the slice page, click "Order this package" on the size you want, and see whether any of the three locations can be selected. If BuyVM is a want rather than a need, the alternatives at the end of this page are in stock every day.
Slices and prices
Every slice on the page lists a core "@ 3.50+ GHz" with "Fair Share" CPU usage, SSD storage at 20 GB per GB of memory, unmetered bandwidth and one IPv4 address. Prices from the page in September 2026:
| Slice | Price | Cores | RAM | SSD | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slice 512 | $24 a year | 1 | 512 MB | 10 GB | Unmetered |
| Slice 1024 | $3.50 a month | 1 | 1 GB | 20 GB | Unmetered |
| Slice 2048 | $7 | 1 | 2 GB | 40 GB | Unmetered |
| Slice 4096 | $15 | 1 | 4 GB | 80 GB | Unmetered |
| 8 GB | $30 | 2 | 8 GB | 160 GB | Unlimited, 1000 Mbps |
| 12 GB | $45 | 3 | 12 GB | 240 GB | Same |
| 16 GB | $60 | 4 | 16 GB | 320 GB | Same |
| 20 GB | $75 | 5 | 20 GB | 400 GB | Same |
| 24 GB | $90 | 6 | 24 GB | 480 GB | Same |
| 28 GB | $105 | 7 | 28 GB | 560 GB | Same |
The ladder is linear from 8 GB up ($3.75 per GB) and steeper at the bottom, where the 512 MB annual slice is the one people mean when they call BuyVM cheap. On memory per dollar the slices sit between InterServer ($3 for 2 GB) and Vultr ($10 for 2 GB); what they add over both is bandwidth without a meter and, on the larger sizes, a 1000 Mbps port. The core-count column for the larger slices is read from the page's core listing (1 to 7 cores); the page does not name the processor model.
Slabs, DDoS-protected IPs, DirectAdmin, Stallion
- Block storage slabs: "$1.25 / month per 256GB additional storage", attachable to a slice. At that rate a terabyte is $5 a month, which is why BuyVM is on this site's storage page; the slice itself stays small and the slab holds the data.
- DDoS protection: advertised as "3500Gbps+", sold as DDoS-protected IP addresses at "$3.00 / month per protected IP", available in all locations. Cheap for what it is, and optional.
- Free licenses: the site lists DirectAdmin, Softaculous and Blesta as free licenses for customers, which makes BuyVM one of the few budget hosts where a commercial panel costs nothing extra.
- Stallion: BuyVM's in-house control panel, described as compatible with SolusVM's API for scripting, with OS templates, and the site's menu lists nightly backups and managed database servers as paid add-ons.
- Operating systems: the menu lists Debian, Red Hat family, Ubuntu, TurnKey Linux applications, the BSDs and Microsoft Windows.
Locations
Las Vegas, New York and Luxembourg, per the site's location list. Las Vegas is the West and Southwest choice (and unusual: few budget hosts are in Nevada), New York the East Coast, Luxembourg the European one. There is no central US site, no Texas and no Pacific Northwest; the US datacenter guide covers who that matters for.
Refunds and cancellation, from the terms
BuyVM's terms of service, September 2026: "Credit Card transactions are eligible for refund within 3 days of the initial order payment"; "PayPal transactions are eligible for refund within 3 days of the initial order payment"; "Cryptocurrency payments are not eligible for refunds"; "Alipay payments are not eligible for refunds"; "Account credit may not be withdrawn or 'cashed out'"; and "Once cancellation has been run on a service, all related data and backups are destroyed, and any associated IP Addresses released". The terms also state that Frantech may cancel or suspend access "at any time and for any reason without notice". Three days on card is the whole safety net; pay by card, test on day one, and keep your own backups.
Against the field
| Plan | Monthly | RAM | Storage | Transfer | US locations | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BuyVM Slice 1024 | $3.50 | 1 GB | 20 GB SSD | Unmetered | Las Vegas, New York | Order form shows out of stock in ${D} |
| BuyVM Slice 2048 | $7 | 2 GB | 40 GB SSD | Unmetered | Same | Same |
| InterServer 1 slice | $3 | 2 GB | 40 GB SSD | 2 TB | New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas | In stock |
| Vultr vc2-1c-0.5gb | $3.50 | 512 MB | 10 GB SSD | 0.5 TB | New Jersey | In stock |
| RackNerd 512 MB | $26.99 a year | 512 MB | 30 GB SSD | 500 GB | Many | List price; sales lower |
| Contabo Cloud VPS 4 | $6.60 | 8 GB | 100 GB SSD | Unlimited on 200 Mbit/s | Carlstadt NJ, St. Louis, Seattle | In stock |
At 2 GB, InterServer is cheaper and available; at 1 GB, Vultr matches the price with a metered 512 MB. What none of them match is BuyVM's unmetered bandwidth on a $3.50 slice and $1.25-per-256 GB slabs, which is the whole case for waiting on stock.
How to buy BuyVM well
- Check the order form, not a stock page. The stock page is gone; the form shows availability per location.
- Pay by card or PayPal, so the 3-day refund applies; crypto and Alipay are final.
- Test in the first 72 hours: install, run your workload, check the port and the panel; the refund window closes on day three.
- Buy slabs for data, not bigger slices. A 1 GB slice with a 512 GB slab is $6 a month; that is the storage pattern BuyVM is built for.
- Add the $3 protected IP only if you need it; it is per address and optional.
- Back up elsewhere. Cancellation destroys data and backups, per the terms.
Verdict and rating
BuyVM is a small host with an unusual product: cheap KVM slices with unmetered bandwidth, very cheap block storage, a $3 DDoS-protected IP and free DirectAdmin, in Las Vegas, New York and Luxembourg. Its terms are strict and short (3-day refund on card, none on crypto, data destroyed on cancellation) and its order form, in September 2026, shows the slices out of stock with a banner sending buyers to Cloudzy. Rating for US buyers: 4.0 out of 5. Credit for the price of bandwidth and storage, the add-ons and the panel; held down by availability that this page cannot promise, a 3-day refund window, three locations with no central US site, and a plan page that names neither the processor nor a transfer figure.
Choose BuyVM if a slice is in stock when you look and you want unmetered bandwidth or cheap slab storage on a box you will keep. Choose InterServer if you want 2 GB for $3 today with a US city of your choice. Choose Contabo if you want unlimited traffic with far more memory and can accept a 200 Mbit/s port.