BlueVPS Review – Cheap Managed Hosting

BlueVPS is a European web hosting provider that offers VPS and Dedicated hosting services. Read our detailed review and benchmarks here.

About BlueVPS

Based in Estonia with server locations from all around the world, BlueVPS have been in business for 4 years. You can get different kinds of web hosting plans from BlueVPS – including KVM VPS, VDS, and Dedicated servers. Not much more information is included about the web hosting provider’s history and team on their website, but you can contact them and ask them if you have any specific questions. The company itself is based in Estonia but they offer different server locations.

BlueVPS Server Locations

You can get a server from almost any part of the world, including, but not limited to:

  • Netherlands
  • England
  • Sweden
  • Hong Kong
  • Cyprus
  • USA
  • Canada
  • Poland
  • Russia
  • France
  • Germany
  • Israel
  • Estonia

You can check their Looking Glass page for more info on their servers.

BlueVPS VPS Plans and Pricing

BlueVPS offers different kinds of web hosting plans. We’ll focus on their VPS plans in our review. All their VPS hosting plans use KVM virtualization so you are guaranteed resources. They offer Linux as well as Windows.

All plans are fully managed and include their 24/7 support.

Here’s what you can get:

KVM VPS powered by RAID HDD – from $2.69 per month.

  • CPU 1×2.66Ghz
  • RAM 256MB
  • RAID-10 HDD 10GB
  • Port 1 Gbps
  • Bandwidth Unlimited
  • IPv4 – 1 IP
  • IPv6 – 4 IPs
  • KVM virtualization
  • SSH and VNC access

We’d recommend these plans if you won’t be limited by the HDD. It may be worth it considering the price, it all depends on your needs.

KVM VPS powered by SSD – from $2.99 per month.

  • CPU 1×2.66GHz
  • RAM 256MB
  • SSD 7GB
  • Port 1 Gbps
  • Bandwidth Unlimited
  • IPv4 – 1 IP
  • IPv6 – 4 IPs
  • SSH and VNC access

It’s a considerable upgrade from their HDD version, you’ll get SSD storage for just 30 cents more. It’s well worth the higher price for the performance upgrade and advantages over HDD.

KVM VPS powered by NVMe – from $8 per month

  • CPU 1×2.9GHz (Epyc core)
  • RAM 1024MB
  • NVMe 12 GB
  • Port 1 Gbps
  • Bandwidth Unlimited
  • IPv4 – 1 IP
  • IPv6 – 4 IPs
  • SSH and VNC access

Their cheapest NVMe plan is considerably more expensive than their cheapest SSD plan, but the upgrade is much higher. You get more RAM, a better CPU, and better storage. Considering the specs, the pricing is still really low and affordable.

All in all, the pricing is well worth it for the resources you get with all their servers. It’s definitely an option to consider.

BlueVPS Benchmarks

We’re going to do benchmarks and tests on their SSD-bWKVM 4096 plan. It was one of their Hong Kong locations, which makes it a top choice for a server location. Hong Kong is full of tech companies which makes the server pricing more competitive and cheaper. You can rest assured that servers in those kinds of locations are always well maintained because of those facts.

As per usual, we’re going to run nench on a freshly installed VPS without any prior optimizations or configurations.

Here are the results:

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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2021-03-17 08:07:38 UTC
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Processor: Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, IBRS)
CPU cores: 2
Frequency: 2992.786 MHz
RAM: 3.8Gi
Swap: 8.0Gi
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-66-generic x86_64

Disks:
vda 60G HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
2.991 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
5.131 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.994 seconds

ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 32.8 us / 94.1 us / 3.56 ms / 74.2 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 7.65 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.87 GiB, 1.53 k iops, 382.7 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 297.55 MiB/s
2nd run: 294.69 MiB/s
3rd run: 299.45 MiB/s
average: 297.23 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 103.253.43.xxxx

Cachefly CDN: 37.34 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 2.17 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 6.66 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 4.23 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 4.73 MiB/s

IPv6 speedtests
your IPv6: 2a10:1fc0::xxxx

Leaseweb (NL): 8.54 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 7.12 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 11.35 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 7.95 MiB/s

Great results. A good indication of how powerful their hardware and network are.

Downsides of BlueVPS

One of the downsides is that they don’t offer shared web hosting, however, their cheapest VPS plan that starts at $2.69 per month is a good alternative.

Another downside is that their website is fairly new and it doesn’t have enough information about the services they offer, the support, the team itself, the company’s history, etc.

Some of their hosting plans use HDD. This is not really a downside since you have other options (SSD and NVMe). It may actually be an upside having an extra cheaper option if you don’t mind using HDD.

These 3 may not be a big deal when deciding if you should go with BlueVPS or not.

Conclusion on our BlueVPS Review

It’s definitely worth a try. They are affordable and their server plans have great specs. You have different plans and pricing to choose from so you can easily find a fit for your needs. You can always contact their support if you have any questions.

This post was last modified on April 4, 2021 10:36 am

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  • I was looking for a balance of convenience and the money I would have to invest. Instant connection, remote control and access, no heavy machinery required, etc. Gladly, I stumbled upon BlueVPS in one of the reviews online and decided to give it a go since I haven’t heard about the company before. It’s easy to use the service, it’s all remote control, and for a reasonable price. 100% recommended.

  • This company was my choice for hosting after considering different options. So far, so good. I have been using its service for 2 months now.

  • The choice of web hosting was a challenge for me. Guys from BlueVPS company helped me to choose the right plan that would suit my needs best. Now I plan to move to another country but customer support told me that I can manage my business online using a cPanel. Sounds great, doesn’t it?

  • The service of BlueVPS is good, in my opinion. I haven’t had any bad experiences with them. Other services are generally more expensive. For the money, you cannot get anything better. I use this service for the website of my small restaurant. Uptime is very important to me. I haven’t had any issue with my website being down. I recommend it to any business owner that requires continuous uptime. The traffic that my website generates is generally constant. So, I cannot tell much about how the hosting server would handle a traffic surge. I am confident that the hosting would handle it properly.

  • Great company with fast hosting! I tried two different providers before. None was really reliable. BlueVPS enabled fast access to my site. This is critical for me. I sell leather bags online. VPS hosting is not exactly cheap. This can be because my website runs on Windows. Yet, the service is fairly priced.

  • There are lots of services I came across until I found the best VPS agency for my website. It’s an easy way to join this VPS service and draw benefits from the company. You don’t have to look for additional services on other platforms, because this VPS agency is a full-scale helper. It also offers flexible pricing plans. If you only start using the VPS services, you can choose the cheapest option. It will still work perfectly.

  • It was pretty much the greatest hosting service available; I was pleased with their assistance in onboarding my service. I haven’t experienced any issues in the previous three years.

  • Excellent hosting provider. It took me three months to be convinced of this. Everything works stably. It leaves only the most pleasant impressions. Services are provided with high quality.

  • As a developer, I use different hosting services. There are no complaints about the work of BlueVPS at all. Everything is clear. If there are difficulties, their technical support responds quickly. For me, it is an excellent indicator of professionalism. A control panel is excellent, so even a beginner can understand how to use it. In a word, I like everything.

  • It was my first experience with BlueVPS. So, I had some difficulties with payments and downloads. But I have reached customer support and got answers to all my questions. So, I am happy with the hosting now.

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