VPS Romania Pricing: What You Actually Get for €3.99–€29.99/mo

If you're comparing Romania VPS prices, the number on the plan card is rarely the number you pay. At IronBalkans, plans run from €3.99/mo (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe) to €29.99/mo (8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 240 GB NVMe), and every tier includes a dedicated IPv4 address, a /64 IPv6 block, DDoS protection and dedicated resources on real KVM virtualization — the items that are commonly billed as extras elsewhere. This article breaks down what that price actually covers, which line items inflate a "cheap" VPS at other hosts, and what to verify before you send crypto.

Direct answer: what's in the price at every tier

Four plans, flat monthly billing, no metered usage:

Plan	Price	vCPU	RAM	NVMe	Transfer
Iron 1	€3.99/mo	1	1 GB	25 GB	1 TB @ 1 Gbps
Iron 2 (popular)	€7.99/mo	2	4 GB	60 GB	4 TB @ 1 Gbps
Iron 3	€14.99/mo	4	8 GB	120 GB	8 TB @ 1 Gbps
Iron 4	€29.99/mo	8	16 GB	240 GB	16 TB @ 1 Gbps

Included on every plan, regardless of tier:

• 1 dedicated IPv4 address — yours, not shared behind NAT.
• A /64 IPv6 block — enough addresses for per-service or per-container assignment.
• DDoS protection — filtered upstream, not sold as a premium tier.
• Dedicated vCPU, RAM and NVMe on KVM (full hardware virtualization, so you get your own kernel and full root access — not a shared container slice).
• No-KYC signup — no email, name, phone or ID. You get a random account ID and a recovery key.
• Crypto billing in Monero, Bitcoin or Litecoin, converted at the live market rate, with deployment in under 60 seconds after payment confirms.

Single location: Bucharest, Romania. That's a deliberate trade-off — one well-understood EU jurisdiction instead of a global map of edge locations.

The line items that quietly raise the price elsewhere

Low headline prices in the VPS market usually work because something has been unbundled. When you compare, price the whole configuration you need, not the base plan:

Extra IPv4. IPv4 addresses are genuinely scarce and many hosts now charge €1–€3/mo for the first one, or hand you a NAT port range instead of a real address. On a €4 plan, a paid IP is a 25–50% price increase. Check whether "1 IPv4 included" means included or "included, then billed."

DDoS mitigation as an upsell. Some providers advertise protection but scope it to a higher tier, or null-route your IP during an attack and call that mitigation. Ask what happens during an attack: filtered, or blackholed?

Bandwidth overage. Metered billing per GB is where a cheap VPS becomes an unpredictable one. Flat monthly pricing with a stated transfer allowance is easier to budget. Whatever provider you pick, ask specifically what happens when you hit the cap — throttled, billed, or suspended. Don't assume.

Backups and snapshots. Often 20–30% on top of the plan price. Worth paying for if you need it, but it belongs in your comparison. If you'd rather keep backups off-provider entirely — which is the better privacy posture anyway — see the guide to encrypted off-site VPS backups with restic or Borg.

Setup fees and renewal jumps. The classic pattern is a heavily discounted first term followed by a much higher renewal. IronBalkans prices are flat monthly with no renewal increase, which matters more than a first-month discount if you plan to keep the server.

Control panels and licensed software. cPanel-style licences can cost more than the VPS. On a full-root KVM server you can run whatever you want, but licence costs are yours.

What "cheap" actually costs when the node is oversold

The most expensive VPS is a €2 one you can't use. Oversubscription — packing more sold vCPUs and RAM onto a node than it can deliver under load — shows up as CPU steal time, disk latency spikes and mysterious slowdowns at peak hours. You'll feel it long before any monitoring alert fires.

This is why "dedicated vCPU/RAM/NVMe, not oversold nodes" is a pricing claim, not just a spec claim: it sets a floor on what a plan can cost. If you want to verify it on any provider — including this one — the measurements are straightforward, and how to tell if your VPS is oversold walks through steal time, I/O latency and cgroup throttling tests you can run in the first hour after deployment.

The second hidden cost is IP reputation. A recycled IPv4 with a spam or abuse history will get your mail bounced and your site flagged, and no amount of hardening fixes it quickly. Check your new address against common blocklists on day one and ask for a swap if it's dirty.

Which price point fits which workload

Rough mapping, so you don't overbuy:

• €3.99 (Iron 1) — WireGuard VPN for a few devices, a Tor onion service, a personal DNS resolver, a small static site, a bot, a monitoring endpoint. 1 GB RAM is workable if you're careful about swap and service limits.
• €7.99 (Iron 2) — the sane default for anything with a database: a self-hosted app, a Nextcloud instance for one or two people, a small store, several Docker containers.
• €14.99 (Iron 3) — busier applications, CI jobs, a Monero node with room to spare, several production services on one box.
• €29.99 (Iron 4) — multi-service stacks, heavier databases, staging plus production, or a build server that needs real parallelism.

For a detailed workload-by-workload breakdown, the Romania VPS sizing guide goes deeper than this section does.

If the reason you're reading a pricing page at all is that every other host wanted a passport photo before it would take your money: signup here needs no email, name, phone or ID, and you can create an account and deploy in under a minute once payment confirms.

What to check before you pay in crypto

Crypto payments remove the chargeback safety net, so verification happens before you send, not after:

1. Read the stated refund and abuse policy. Know what's promised in writing. IronBalkans publishes its policies on the FAQ page; abuse and DMCA-style reports are assessed under Romanian and EU law rather than auto-actioned — which is not the same thing as immunity from law.
2. Start small. Buy one month of Iron 1 before committing to a year of Iron 4. A €3.99 test tells you more about a provider than any review.
3. Confirm the price includes what you counted. IP, DDoS filtering, transfer allowance, no setup fee, no renewal increase.
4. Pick the right coin for the amount. Fees and confirmation waits differ meaningfully; the comparison of paying with Monero, Bitcoin or Litecoin covers when each makes sense, including why a €3.99 payment shouldn't go out on a high-fee network.
5. Vet the host itself, not just the price. Network ownership, ToS realism and support responsiveness matter more at renewal time than €1/mo. The no-KYC provider vetting checklist is the short version.

Common mistakes buyers make

Buying on price per GB of RAM alone. A 4 GB plan on a saturated node performs worse than a 2 GB plan with dedicated cores. Specs without dedicated resources are marketing.

Prepaying annually on day one. Crypto prepayment plus an unknown provider is the one combination with no recourse. Month-to-month first.

Underestimating disk. Logs, Docker images and database growth fill 25 GB faster than people expect. Resizing later is more disruptive than paying €4 more now.

Ignoring latency for the actual audience. Bucharest is well-connected within the EU and fine for most of Europe and the Middle East. If your users are in Brazil or Singapore, a single Romanian location is a genuine trade-off — put a CDN in front, or choose accordingly.

Assuming price buys privacy. It doesn't. No-KYC signup and crypto billing remove identity data from the provider's records; they do nothing about what your application leaks. What your VPS provider can actually see is the honest version of that boundary.

Honest pros and cons at this price point

In favour: flat pricing you can predict, no ID or email required, dedicated resources with a real IPv4 and DDoS filtering at every tier, EU jurisdiction with GDPR applying to your data, deployment in under a minute, and no upsell maze between you and a working server.

Against: one location only, so global latency needs a CDN. Crypto-only billing means no card, no PayPal, no chargebacks, and a small amount of exchange-rate friction. Support runs over Telegram and SimpleX — no phone line. And offshore hosting doesn't mean lawless hosting: complaints are reviewed under Romanian and EU law, and legal process still applies.

FAQ

Is €3.99/mo enough for a real server? For a VPN, onion service, DNS resolver, bot or small site, yes. For anything running a database plus a web app, 1 GB RAM gets tight — €7.99 is the more comfortable floor.

Are prices in euros or crypto? Plans are priced in euros and paid in XMR, BTC or LTC at the live market rate when you check out.

Does the price change at renewal? No. Flat monthly pricing, no promotional-then-hiked structure.

Do I pay extra for the IP address or DDoS protection? No. One dedicated IPv4, a /64 IPv6 block and DDoS protection are included on every plan.

Can I upgrade later? Plan upgrades are the normal path when a workload outgrows its tier — check the current process on the FAQ before you build something that depends on a specific resize path.

Get started

Price a VPS by the full configuration you need — IP, filtering, transfer, backups, renewal — and the cheapest headline rarely wins. Compare the current plans and what each one includes, start with a single month of the smallest tier that fits, and run the oversubscription checks yourself in the first hour. If it holds up, scale. If it doesn't, you've spent €3.99 finding out.