BuyVM prices that stay put: flat monthly KVM slices and a true lifetime storage deal

BuyVM (Frantech Solutions) runs a menu with almost no renewal arithmetic to do. Every KVM slice on the list bills monthly at a flat rate, renews at the same flat rate, and earns the catalogue's cleanest score of 1.000 — the price on invoice one is the price on invoice twenty. The interesting rows are the other two: a genuinely lifetime-priced storage slice with no renewal at all, and one storage deal where the renewal rate is simply unpublished. Here is what the table actually says, and where the honest unknown sits.

The KVM slice ladder: flat monthly, 1.000 across the board

The core ladder is three slices. The 1024MB KVM Slice — 1GB RAM, 1 core, 20GB SSD — is $3.50 a month, renewing at $3.50. The 2048MB KVM Slice (2GB RAM, 1 core, 40GB SSD) is $7.00 a month, renewing at $7.00, and the 4096MB KVM Slice (4GB RAM, 2 cores, 80GB SSD) is $15.00 a month, renewing at $15.00. All three score a fair 1.000 on our renewal-shock scale: there is no teaser rate to expire, because there is no teaser rate. One caveat on the cheapest row: both 1GB listings are flagged sold out at the time of checking, including the Las Vegas variant, which the listing notes restocks within minutes — so if the $3.50 row is what you want, watch stock rather than price.

The lifetime slice: $149 once, and no renewal line at all

The Lifetime Storage Slice 256GB is the opposite of a renewal trap — there is nothing to renew. It is $149.00 once (down from a $298.00 list price) for 256GB of Storj-backed storage, with the renewal field empty by design. The catch worth stating plainly: the deal page calls the term lifetime and the listing carries no renewal rate because none exists — if the product line were ever retired, the guarantee is the provider's, not a contract term in this table. That is a different risk profile from a teaser rate you can calculate: it cannot shock you at renewal, but it puts faith in one company's longevity instead.

Where the honest unknown sits — and how it compares

One row does have a blank that matters. The Frantech NVMe 2TB Storage deal is $8.50 a month — half its $17.00 list — but the renewal price is unpublished, so our table scores it unverified rather than guessing. Against the rest of the menu, BuyVM's flat ladder sits alongside Netcup's identical-rate renewals and InterServer's flat $3.00 slices, and well clear of RackNerd's shared-hosting teaser that runs $1.99 rising to $9.99. If you want every price on the table to mean the same thing next month, the 6 listed BuyVM deals and the BuyVM catalogue page are where to check the current stock.