Which No-KYC VPS Plan Fits Your Project? A Romania VPS Sizing Guide

Most people overpay for their first VPS, and a smaller group underpays and spends a weekend fighting out-of-memory crashes. The short version: pick your plan by RAM first, then disk, then vCPU — a single static site, VPN or Tor node runs comfortably on 1 GB RAM (€3.99/mo), while anything with a database, Docker containers or multiple services wants 4 GB or more (€7.99/mo and up).

This guide maps real workloads to real plan sizes, explains which spec actually becomes your bottleneck, and covers what to verify before you send crypto to any no-KYC host — including us.

The short answer

Your project	Sensible starting plan
Static site, personal VPN, DNS resolver, Tor onion service, small bot	Iron 1 — 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe, 1 TB traffic — €3.99/mo
WordPress or a CMS with a database, 1–3 Docker containers, mail server, Nextcloud for one or two users, small app + Postgres	Iron 2 — 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe, 4 TB — €7.99/mo
Several apps on one box, CI runner, Monero node, game server, busier site with caching layers	Iron 3 — 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 120 GB NVMe, 8 TB — €14.99/mo
Production stack with headroom, multiple databases, heavier builds, many containers, media processing	Iron 4 — 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 240 GB NVMe, 16 TB — €29.99/mo

Every plan on IronBalkans includes real KVM virtualization (a full virtual machine with its own kernel, not a shared container), dedicated vCPU/RAM/NVMe, DDoS protection, one dedicated IPv4 address and a /64 IPv6 block. That matters for sizing, because you're comparing against hosts where "1 vCPU" can mean a fraction of a heavily shared core.

RAM decides your plan, not vCPU

Almost every "my VPS is slow" story on a small server is actually a memory story. Linux itself is frugal — a minimal Debian install idles at well under 200 MB — but modern software is not. A single PHP-FPM pool plus MariaDB plus nginx can easily sit at 700–900 MB before you have real traffic. Add a Docker daemon and a couple of containers and you're past 1 GB.

When RAM runs out, the kernel's OOM killer picks a process and terminates it — usually your database, because it's the largest. That's why a 1 GB plan is perfect for a VPN endpoint or a static site and a poor fit for WordPress with a plugin habit. If you want to run lean anyway, it's doable with tuning: swap or zram, systemd memory limits and conservative PHP/MariaDB settings, as covered in our guide to low-RAM VPS tuning and the OOM killer. Just go in knowing you're trading your time for €4/month.

vCPU matters in fewer cases than people expect. Web requests, SSH, VPN tunnels and DNS lookups are bursty and cheap. CPU becomes the real constraint when you're compiling code, transcoding media, running CI builds, syncing a blockchain node, or terminating a lot of TLS at once. If your workload is one of those, jump to Iron 3 or Iron 4 for the 4–8 dedicated vCPUs rather than buying RAM you won't use.

Disk: 25 GB is enough more often than you think

A full Debian or Ubuntu system with your app stack typically lands between 3 and 8 GB. What fills disks is data you keep: database growth, uploaded media, container images, and logs. Docker is the usual surprise — pulled images and build cache can consume tens of gigabytes if you never prune.

Rules of thumb:

• 25 GB (Iron 1): OS, a site, configs, modest logs. Fine if your data lives elsewhere.
• 60 GB (Iron 2): CMS with real media, a mail server with mailboxes, a few containers.
• 120–240 GB (Iron 3/4): multiple databases, backups staged locally, media libraries, a Monero node (the blockchain grows continuously and is well into three digits of gigabytes when pruning is off).

Keep disk usage under roughly 80%. NVMe stays fast when it has room, and a full root filesystem will break services in confusing ways before it breaks anything obvious.

Bandwidth and the 1 Gbps port

Traffic allowances scale with the plan: 1 TB on Iron 1 up to 16 TB on Iron 4, all on a 1 Gbps port. For context, a text-and-images website serving 50,000 pageviews a month rarely breaks a couple of hundred gigabytes. Video, file distribution, backup targets, a public VPN shared with friends, or a Tor relay are what actually consume terabytes. Estimate honestly rather than buying 16 TB "just in case" — the flat monthly price means you can move up later without a renegotiation, and there's no metered overage billing to fear if you guess low on a normal workload.

What to check before you pay in crypto

Sizing is the easy part. The harder question for a no-KYC purchase is whether the provider is worth the money you're about to send, because crypto payments are not reversible the way a card chargeback is. Before you pay anyone — us included — confirm:

1. Are resources dedicated or oversold? Ask whether vCPU and RAM are allocated per VM, and after deployment measure it yourself. Steal time and disk latency tell you the truth within minutes; see how to tell if your VPS is oversold.
2. What's included in the price? A dedicated IPv4, IPv6, and DDoS protection are commonly upsells elsewhere. Check whether the headline price is the real price, and whether it rises at renewal.
3. How much identity does signup require? Every email address, phone number or ID upload is a permanent link between you and the server. On IronBalkans, account creation needs no email, name, phone or ID — you get a random account ID and a recovery key, pay in Monero, Bitcoin or Litecoin, and the VPS deploys in under 60 seconds. If you lose that recovery key, nobody can email it back to you, so store it before you deploy anything.
4. Which coin should you send? Monero gives the best payment privacy by default; BTC and LTC are transparent ledgers, so the trade-offs are different. We break them down in paying for a VPS with Monero, Bitcoin or Litecoin.
5. Does the provider's abuse policy match reality? "Offshore" is not immunity. Reports against a Romania-based VPS are assessed under Romanian and EU law rather than auto-actioned, which is very different from being ignored.

For the full vetting process, including network ownership and IP reputation checks, read how to vet a no-KYC VPS provider before you pay in crypto. If you've already done that homework, you can pick a plan and deploy in about a minute.

Common sizing mistakes

Buying CPU to fix a memory problem. If your app is dying at 2 a.m., check journalctl -k | grep -i oom before you upgrade anything.

Forgetting Docker's footprint. The daemon plus images plus build cache is a real line item in both RAM and disk. Budget for it.

Treating the VPS disk as backup storage. Snapshots and local copies on the same machine disappear with the machine. Keep backups off-site and encrypted.

Sizing for peak traffic you don't have yet. Start one tier below your imagination. A flat monthly price with no metered billing means growing later is a decision, not a penalty.

Under-sizing a mail server. Self-hosted email needs RAM for the MTA, spam filtering and IMAP indexes, plus disk for mailboxes. Iron 1 is tight; Iron 2 is the sane floor.

Honest trade-offs of this approach

In favor: dedicated KVM resources mean the spec you buy is the spec you get, flat pricing removes billing surprises, and no-KYC signup plus crypto payment removes the identity trail that traditional hosts create by default.

Against: there's a single location (Bucharest, Romania), so latency-sensitive users in Asia or the Americas will feel the distance; support runs over Telegram and SimpleX rather than phone; and no-KYC means you own your credentials completely — lose the recovery key and there's no identity-based account recovery. Privacy from marketing databases and casual data brokers is real; immunity from lawful process is not, as we cover in what your VPS provider can actually see.

FAQ

Can I upgrade later without rebuilding? Plan changes are handled through your account panel; if a migration is ever needed, the process is the same one we describe in our VPS migration checklist. Either way, keep working backups first.

Is 1 vCPU enough for WordPress? Usually yes for traffic; RAM and a caching layer matter far more. But 1 GB RAM is the constraint on Iron 1, not the core.

Do I need the biggest plan for privacy tools? No. WireGuard, Unbound and a Tor onion service are all light. Iron 1 handles them; scale only if you add users or services.

How fast is deployment? Under 60 seconds once your payment confirms. Confirmation time depends on the coin and network, not on us.

Get started

Pick by RAM, keep 20% disk free, and resist buying capacity for traffic you haven't earned yet. When you're ready, choose a plan and deploy in under a minute — no email, no ID, Monero, Bitcoin or Litecoin accepted.