VPS Guides: What a VPS Is, Sizing, Storage and Transfer

This section answers the questions people ask before they rent their first virtual server, and the ones that come up after it’s running. Each guide takes one question and answers it plainly, with the numbers behind the answer where there are numbers to show.

What will you find in the VPS guides?

Over time, this is where we’ll cover the fundamentals. That means what a virtual private server is and how virtualization splits one physical machine into many. It also means when a VPS beats shared hosting or a dedicated server, and when it doesn’t.

You’ll find guides on sizing too: how much RAM, CPU and disk a given workload needs, and how to tell when you’ve outgrown a plan. We’ll explain what NVMe storage changes compared with SATA SSD, and how transfer allowances and port speeds work, including what happens when you go over.

Most of these guides are about VPS hosting in general, not about us. Where a generic figure helps, we’ll credit it to the standard or project documentation it comes from. If you need to check a fact against another host, we’ll point you to their current plan pages rather than describe them.

How does ADTAQ price a VPS?

Our NVMe VPS is $5/GB RAM, from $10/mo. The Storage VPS is $10/TB/mo. Annual billing is 12 months for the price of 10.

Transfer is an allowance. If you go over it, the port is throttled, never billed, and extra transfer is $1.50/TB. The standard port is 1 Gig. A 2.5 Gig port is a $5/mo add-on, and 10 Gig is a $15/mo add-on.

The servers run in the IDACORE Boise data center in Boise, Idaho, and we back them with a 100% SLA: 5% of the monthly fee per hour down, capped at 100%. When you know what your workload needs, compare sizes on our Boise VPS plans page and dial it in.