RackNerd, comparedCheap, and mostly American.

RackNerd is priced aggressively and its promotional plans are genuinely good value for a small box. The comparison is about where the boxes sit and what is written down about them.

6 minute read · Their pages last read 30 July 2026 · Corrections welcome

The one you are looking at

RackNerd

Where: United States, Netherlands
Site: racknerd.com

What they are genuinely good at

Some of the lowest prices in the market for a small virtual machine, particularly on promotions.
A wide choice of US locations, useful for latency to North American audiences.
Responsive support for the price point.

This estate

DediPrivacy

Where: eight jurisdictions, eight companies
Site: dediprivacy.com

What we publish that most do not

Every price, including bare metal, GPU by the second and colocation.
A signed warrant canary, a quarterly transparency report and the inventory of records that exist.
Mitigation on before an attack starts, and an SLA that credits itself from the incident record.

Row by row

What each of us publishes.

Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.

Their column reflects their own public pages, read on 30 July 2026. marks a thing we could not find published — it is not a claim that they do not do it.
Published?	RackNerd	DediPrivacy
Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level.	No	Published
Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround.	No	Published
Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default.	No	Published
Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier.	Published	Published
Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule.	Not published	Published
Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on.	Not published	Published
Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask.	Partly	Published
Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”.	Partly	Published
A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another.	No	Published
Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form.	Partly	Published
DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell.	Partly	Published
Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy.	Partly	Published

On eleven of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong

American capacity is American jurisdiction

Most RackNerd locations are in the United States, and a US-based provider is bound by 17 U.S.C. §512 whatever its abuse policy says. For ordinary content that is irrelevant; for content that draws complaints it is the only row that matters.

Every region on this estate is outside United States jurisdiction, and each has its own company behind it.

Promotional pricing and what it funds

A very low headline price funds a very low cost base, which is a legitimate way to run a business and worth understanding. It does not fund a signed canary, a quarterly transparency report, eight legal entities or mitigation included on every product. Those are what the difference here pays for.

Questions people actually ask

Do they take crypto?

Cryptocurrency is accepted, which is why that row reads yes. The jurisdiction rows are the ones that differ, and a payment method does not move a server.

Is there a cheap plan here?

There is an entry virtual machine on the price list, and it is not the cheapest in the market. We would rather say that than compete on a number we do not win.

Buy theirs instead if

The monthly price is the whole decision and the workload is ordinary.
You want a small North American box and latency there is what matters.
It is a disposable machine and nothing depends on it.

That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue

Others of the same kind

Good engineering, and a compliance department. What changes when the company holding your disk is answerable where the complaint is filed.

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