256GB for €3 Per Month!
I’ve just noticed that I’ve been a customer of AlphaVPS since December 2021. So here is my review after three years as a customer.1
AlphaVPS have not asked me to post this. I know that sort of things goes on, but not here.
I can’t remember where I first heard of AlphaVPS, it was probably lowendbox as I’ve picked up a few deals there over the years. Back in 2021, when I signed up, I went for the €20 per year plan as:
- 256GB would be sufficient for my needs
- If it turned out to be rubbish, I wasn’t losing a lot
For that tiny price, you get 1 shared CPU core, 768MB of RAM, 1TB of data transfer:
So I ordered it, set up an Apache vhost and have been using it for the last three years without a hitch. Here is a screenshot of htop running, taken just now. As you can see it’s using 110MB of RAM, 2% of CPU. The only service I have running on it is Apache, by the way. Notice the uptime (464 days)!
Customer Support
Back in 2023, I noticed that I was getting charged twice each month by AlphaVPS. So I opened a ticket, and after some toing and froing to find out what had happened (don’t think we ever got to the bottom of it), they agreed that I’d been overcharged and credited me for the overpayments. Here’s a screenshot of the email:2
Problem reported, problem solved. All dealt with very professionally and promptly.
There was a slight delay of a couple of hours (if I remember correctly) as I’m not sure they’d ever had this problem before.
My Rating for AlphaVPS
10/10
Conclusion
It can take a while with a VPS provider to determine if they’re worth staying with. Well, as I’ve said, they’ve got a happy customer here. Well done to the team and I hope they have a great 2025!
One other thing to note is that you can pay annually, which I prefer (one invoice per year instead of twelve). I don’t recall this being an option back in 2021 but it is now.
Footnotes
1 I’m not a big fan of those “I’ve been using something for 3 days and it’s great!!!” reviews. How are you finding it after three years? That’s what I want to know.
2 This is why you should always be careful how you interact with your customers. You never know when some blogger is going to screenshot it! Alex at AlphaVPS is a gentleman and I think he’s been in the business long enough to know that.
