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name: Cloud Server; category: currently_publicly_orderable_unmanaged_root_kvm_virtual_machine; inventory audit: advertised in scope country pages: 42; advertised region families: 148; currently orderable region families: 121; fully out of stock region families: 27; currently orderable plan rows across active regions: 819; active in scope country count: 39; active in scope country codes: AR, AT, BE, BG, BO, BR, CA, CL, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EC, EE, ES, FR, GR, GT, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LV, MT, MX, NL, PA, PE, PL, PY, RO, SE, SI, SK, US, UY; active city count: 78; inactive in scope country codes: FI, LU, PT; inactive region families: country code: AT; label: Vienna, Austria - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/73-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: BR; label: Sao Paulo, Brazil - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/94-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: BR; label: Sao Paulo, Brazil - Region V; region url: https://hostfirst.com/221-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 6; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: CA; label: Toronto, Canada - Region N; region url: https://hostfirst.com/714-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 0; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: CA; label: Vancouver, Canada - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/56-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: CR; label: San Jose, Costa Rica - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/436-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: DE; label: Nuremberg, Germany - Region T; region url: https://hostfirst.com/330-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: DK; label: Copenhagen, Denmark - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/158-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: EC; label: Quito, Ecuador - Region N; region url: https://hostfirst.com/715-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 0; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: ES; label: Madrid, Spain - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/147-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: FI; label: Helsinki, Finland - Region T; region url: https://hostfirst.com/182-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 9; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: FR; label: Paris, France - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/70-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: GR; label: Athens, Greece - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/208-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: GT; label: Guatemala City, Guatemala - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/561-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: IE; label: Dublin, Ireland - Region P; region url: https://hostfirst.com/173-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: IT; label: Florence, Italy - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/664-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: LT; label: Vilnius, Lithuania - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/74-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: LU; label: Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Region G; region url: https://hostfirst.com/449-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 6; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: NL; label: Amsterdam, Netherlands - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/596-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: PT; label: Lisbon, Portugal - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/615-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: RO; label: Bucharest, Romania - Region N; region url: https://hostfirst.com/713-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 0; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: SE; label: Stockholm, Sweden - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/72-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: US; label: Ashburn, United States - Region T; region url: https://hostfirst.com/440-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: US; label: Edison, United States - Region S; region url: https://hostfirst.com/633-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 7; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: US; label: Portland, United States - Region T; region url: https://hostfirst.com/605-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: US; label: Seattle, United States - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/55-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0, country code: US; label: Washington, United States - Region O; region url: https://hostfirst.com/57-cloud-server-region; published plan row count: 5; current orderable plan count: 0; orderability: Every included region family exposed at least one current Order link. For each active country the audit opened the cheapest ordinary row's anonymous order form and verified an Add to cart surface, exact location/resource summary, selectable image and payment cycles. No form was submitted and no account, cart, order, payment, ticket, chat or review was created.; benchmark boundary: One exact current order is retained per active city. Region families are not a universal SKU: resource matrices, images, network labels, after-sales options, payment cycles, prices and stock can differ. Every active city remains separately comparable, while the selected city benchmark must not be generalized to its other region families.; physical location boundary: Each included region/order description names a city and country, and HostFirst says geography is precisely what is stated in the product description. Exact facility, street address, operator, upstream seller, ASN, rack, host, availability zone and hardware ownership are not_found.; seller and upstream boundary: HostFirst is the public seller and supplies the order/control surface. The site advertises thousands of plans across hundreds of data centers, but does not identify the upstream operator for these benchmark regions; no ownership or direct-operator status is inferred.; storage boundary: The general feature page says servers use SSD disk. It does not bind SATA/SAS/NVMe, media generation, RAID, replication or IOPS to every selected regional order.; network boundary: Country rows publish separate Bandwidth and Transfer labels. Their wording is preserved in each benchmark billing basis; no port speed, burst, guarantee, carrier mix, IPv4/IPv6 allotment, DDoS capacity or regional topology is inferred where absent.; billing refund and tax boundary: Order forms expose region-specific payment cycles. Terms prohibit cancellation during the initial term, say subscription fees are not refunded and assign applicable taxes to the user. The FAQ describes any refund as discretionary, and stopped servers keep billing until destroyed. Displayed-price tax inclusion is not_found.

Operating systems

current image union across 78 city benchmark orders: AlmaLinux 10, AlmaLinux 8, AlmaLinux 8.6, AlmaLinux 9, AlmaLinux 9.0, CentOS 10, CentOS 10 Stream, CentOS 7, CentOS 7.8, CentOS 7.9, CentOS 8, CentOS 8.10, CentOS 9, CentOS 9 Stream, CentOS Stream 10, CentOS Stream 8, CentOS Stream 9, Debian 10, Debian 11, Debian 12, Debian 13, Fedora 42, Fedora 43, Fedora 44, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 26.04, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2016, Windows 2019; audit boundary: These are exact labels exposed by the 78 audited city-benchmark order forms. The image set differs by region; the union is not a promise that every image is available in every country. Architecture, build age, patch cadence, licenses, Windows/BSD availability, custom ISO and image retention are not_found unless named above.

Virtualization

technology: KVM; guest access: Unmanaged guest with root credentials; the documentation index publishes root-user SSH material and the control panel can reset the root password.; management surface: HostFirst describes VNC console access plus reboot, reinstall, upgrade, power-off, root-password reset, usage-graph and backup options. Exact capabilities vary by regional comparison matrix.; unknowns: KVM/QEMU and host versions, nested virtualization, CPU model, NUMA, live migration, API, CLI, cloud-init, rescue mode, custom ISO and authenticated control-plane behavior are not_found.

CPU isolation

classification: shared; basis: The acceptable-use policy says excessive CPU use may be limited to maintain consistent performance across all nodes. That is explicit contention/control of a shared host resource.; qualification: No selected order promises an exclusive physical core or SMT thread, pinning, guaranteed CPU time, a host processor model or a numeric contention ratio. vCPU counts are retained as virtual labels, not converted to physical cores.

Features

• App installation guest managed: Root access on an unmanaged VM permits customer installation of compatible software.; one click application catalog and managed installation: not_found
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• Templates & images provider images: Every audited benchmark order exposed at least one selectable Linux image; exact regional labels are summarized under operating_systems.; backup boundary: The general control-panel feature list mentions backup options, but regional availability, price, schedule, retention, restore workflow, RPO and RTO are not_found.; snapshot clone private template import export custom iso: not_found
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• Network orchestration management surface: The provider describes a control panel with VM lifecycle, VNC, root-password, usage and backup actions; FAQ says additional-IP availability varies by region.; boundary: No uniform VPC, private VLAN, subnet, router, floating-IP, route-table, peering, NAT, API or topology-as-code capability was found. This status records the limited provider control surface, not a full programmable network fabric.
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• Git integrations
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• Container registry
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