Ucartz review: cheap KVM VPS and dedicated servers in the US

Ucartz VPS pricing and the yearly discount

All four KVM plans come with NVMe storage, root access and unmetered bandwidth, and a control panel can be installed in one click without a licence fee. Every order form fixes the location to the USA.

The yearly deal shrinks as plans grow: Lite costs $36 a year, 70% off, while Elite costs $240, 50% off. Quarterly billing saves nothing. The VPS page promises no renewal hikes, which matters when a $3-a-month server is the reason you signed up.

Ucartz dedicated servers in Kansas City, Los Angeles and Dallas

Ucartz lists sixteen fixed-price dedicated configurations from $30 to $128 a month, billed monthly. Seven are in the United States, and Ucartz itself calls them entry-level and legacy-hardware machines:

• $30 in Kansas City: Core2Duo at 1.6 GHz, 4 GB, 250 GB disk, 100 Mbps port,
• $51 in Kansas City: Core i5-750, 16 GB, 500 GB, 1 Gbps,
• $60 in Kansas City: dual Xeon 5520, 16 GB, two 2 TB drives, 1 Gbps,
• $57 in Los Angeles: Xeon E3-1230v2, 16 GB, 1 TB SSD,
• $96 in Dallas: Xeon E3-1270v6, 32 GB, 1 TB.

Bandwidth is unlimited on all US machines, and failed hardware is replaced within 24 hours of the fault being confirmed. For a tube that stores video and serves it through a CDN, the $60 box gives the most disk per dollar among the US servers. Newer self-managed hardware starts at $68 and fully managed servers at $142. The other low-cost boxes sit in Canada, Germany, Finland, Australia and Singapore, outside the two countries the adult policy names, so ask before ordering one.

Ucartz billing, refunds and uptime credits

Prices are set in US dollars and converted at checkout into rupees, pounds, Australian or Canadian dollars or dirhams. Payment by UPI, card, net banking or PayPal suits an Indian customer, and cheques are credited once cleared.

The 30-day money-back guarantee covers a first VPS, shared or streaming purchase, never a dedicated server. A free domain is deducted from the refund, and accounts closed for cause get nothing back.

The uptime target is 99.9% a month. For every 0.1% below it, Ucartz credits 10% of that month’s fee once you report it. Support works in English, Malayalam and Tamil. Streaming is the company’s other specialty, with Centova, AzuraCast and SonicPanel radio hosting from $3 a month and Flussonic video servers from $189.

Ucartz strengths and limitations