# RackNerd

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/racknerd/

US hosting company selling KVM virtual servers, dedicated and hybrid servers, shared and reseller hosting, and colocation from datacenter locations in North America, Europe and Asia.

## Who it suits

Unmanaged KVM servers with more vCores per plan: the 1 GB plan has 2 vCores at $17.99 a month, where the 1 GB plans at Vultr, Linode and DigitalOcean have one, rising to 7 vCores and 12 GB for $55.99, across 12 locations in the US, Canada and Europe.

Consider something else if Price matters more than cores: 1 GB is $17.99 a month here and $5 at Vultr and Linode. RackNerd's cheaper deals are time-limited and mostly billed yearly, backups are not included, the transfer allowance states no period, and the 99.999% SLA covers network and power, not the VPS itself.

## iScore

52 / 100 (80% interval 44–59), rank 16 of 16 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/racknerd/alternatives/

- Price: 20 (3–38), weight 29%, 3 of 5 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, free_card_required
- Capacity and limits: 53 (42–64), weight 29%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: backup_retention, file_count_limit
- Capabilities: 77 (70–83), weight 10%, 4 of 11 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: autoscaling, connection_pooling, edge_network, git_deploy, managed_databases, scale_to_zero, scheduled_jobs
- Trust and compliance: 79 (71–88), weight 14%, 3 of 13 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: customer_managed_keys, encryption_at_rest, gdpr_data_residency, hipaa_eligible, iso27001, pci_dss, private_networking, rbac, soc2, support_response_time
- Evidence: 76 (76–76), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 51 (9–94), weight 10%, 0 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No — No free plan on the VPS page; no refunds or money-back guarantee, and monthly billing is suggested for trying it. ([source](https://my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=/knowledgebase/9/Do-you-have-money-back-guarantee-Or-offer-refunds.html), read 2026-09-25)
- Kind of free offer: No free offer ([source](https://my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=/knowledgebase/9/Do-you-have-money-back-guarantee-Or-offer-refunds.html), read 2026-09-25)
- Entry paid plan: $17.99/month for the 1 GB KVM plan (2 vCore, 50 GB SSD), the cheapest plan billed monthly. A 512 MB plan (1 vCore, 30 GB SSD) is sold for $26.99 a year, annual billing only. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps), read 2026-09-25)
- Pricing model: Fixed-price plans billed per cycle rather than by the hour: the KVM VPS page prices the 512 MB plan per year and the 1 GB to 12 GB plans per month. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps), read 2026-09-25)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 50 GB RAID-10 SSD on the 1 GB KVM plan, the cheapest plan billed monthly. The annual-only 512 MB plan has 30 GB. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps), read 2026-09-25)
- Memory (entry plan): 1 GB RAM on the 1 GB KVM plan, the cheapest plan billed monthly. A 512 MB plan is sold annually only. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps), read 2026-09-25)
- Included bandwidth: 1 TB on the 1 GB plan, the cheapest billed monthly, rising to 6 TB on the 12 GB plan, each on a 1 Gbps port; the annual-only 512 MB plan has 500 GB. The KVM VPS page does not state the period the allowance covers. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps), read 2026-09-25)

### Deployment

- Docker deployment: Limited ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/ctrl-control-panel), read 2026-09-25)
- Containers: Limited ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/terms-of-service), read 2026-09-25)

### Infrastructure

- Persistent processes: Supported ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps), read 2026-09-25)
- Persistent storage: Supported ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps), read 2026-09-25)
- Regions: 12 KVM VPS locations: Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Ashburn, Amsterdam, France, Dublin and Toronto. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps), read 2026-09-25)
- Uptime SLA: 99.999% for network transit and for electricity, measured monthly. Credit is 2% of the affected service's monthly fee per additional hour of outage, capped at 50%. Covers network and power, not the VPS itself; last revised 18 September 2019. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/service-level-agreement), read 2026-09-25)

### Data

- Backup retention: None by default: VPS services do not include managed backups unless a separate backup service is purchased, and RackNerd states no retention period for one. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/terms-of-service), read 2026-09-25)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: 24/7 best-effort hardware and network support at no charge; VPS is unmanaged, and OS or software support needs a paid management plan. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/terms-of-service), read 2026-09-25)

### Compliance

- Dedicated infrastructure: KVM VPS resources are fair-share; RackNerd points customers who need dedicated resources to its dedicated servers, a separate product line. ([source](https://www.racknerd.com/terms-of-service), read 2026-09-25)