# What storage VPS can I use instead of BuyVM storage slabs?

> BuyVM storage slab alternative: slabs cost $5.00 per TB, but every KVM slice was out of stock on 2 Nov 2026. In-stock storage VPS options, crypto, no KYC.

- URL: https://coffervale.com/buyvm-storage-slab-alternative/
- Last updated: 2026-11-02
- Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com)

BuyVM's slabs are a well-priced idea: cheap block storage attached to a small server. On 2 November 2026 the servers they attach to could not be ordered. Here is what was in stock, what each option costs, and how to move your data.

**Quick answer — What can I use instead of BuyVM storage slabs?**

On 2 November 2026, BuyVM storage slabs cost $5.00 per TB a month, but a slab only attaches to a KVM slice, and every slice was out of stock in all 4 locations, so a new customer could not order the pair. In-stock storage VPS alternatives that take crypto included Hostbrr, HostHatch and **Coffervale**, whose 1 TB plan costs $1.66 a month on 12 months.

## What are BuyVM storage slabs?

**A slab is block storage that you attach to a BuyVM KVM slice; it is not a server on its own.** Anyone looking for something to use instead of BuyVM storage slabs is usually after the same thing: a small server with a lot of cheap disk. BuyVM's own pages, read on 2 November 2026, describe the product this way:

- sold in 256 GB steps at $1.25 a month, so 1 TB costs $5.00 and 10 TB costs $50.00;
- up to 10 TB per slab and up to 8 slabs per slice;
- the slab needs an accompanying KVM slice "in the same facility";
- four sites: Las Vegas, New York, Miami, and a fourth that the website calls Roost, Luxembourg while its order cart titles the group "Switzerland";
- the smallest slice in the cart costs $3.00 a month: 512 MB of RAM, 1 core and a 10 GB NVMe disk.

On payment, BuyVM listed BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC, DOGE and XMR through CoinPayments when read on 29 October 2026. Its signup has no ID-document step; its terms ask for accurate identification and contact details and a residential address. An older "Storage VPS" page (250 GB to 4 TB, RAID-60) is still in the menu but has no working order path.

## What was in stock at BuyVM on 2 November 2026?

**Slabs were in stock only in Las Vegas, and slices were in stock nowhere.** Every slice configuration page read that day said orders for it "have been suspended". Without a slice, a slab cannot be attached, so a new customer could buy neither.

### BuyVM stock by location, 2 November 2026

| Location | KVM slices | Storage slabs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Las Vegas | 0 available, orders suspended | In stock: 512 GB (2), 1 TB (7), 2 TB (1), 4 TB (3), 10 TB (1) |
| New York | 0 available, orders suspended | 0 available |
| Miami | 0 available, orders suspended | 0 available |
| Roost, Luxembourg (cart group "Switzerland") | 0 available, orders suspended | 0 available |

*Prices checked on November 2, 2026.*

Counts as shown in BuyVM's order carts (my.frantech.ca) on 2 November 2026. Stock changes without notice; check the cart before you decide.

## What does a slice plus slab cost against a storage VPS?

**At list price, a BuyVM slice plus slab costs $8.00 a month for 1 TB and $23.00 for 4 TB, more than several storage VPS that were in stock the same day.** The slab rate of $5.00 per TB is low; the slice on top is what changes the sum at small sizes. **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, only 10 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto and ask no ID had a plan in Europe that a new customer could order and pay monthly.**

### Monthly price for 1, 2 and 4 TB, 2 November 2026

| Option | 1 TB | 2 TB | 4 TB | Stock | Location |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BuyVM 512 MB slice + slab | $8.00 | $13.00 | $23.00 | Not orderable: no slice in stock | Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Roost |
| DeluxHost STORAGE-2, -3, -5 | $2.22 | $4.46 | $10.04 | In stock | Eygelshoven, NL |
| Hostbrr Hybrid (excl. VAT) | $3.91 | $6.70 | $11.17 | In stock | Frankfurt, DE |
| NolimitHost Storage VPS 1, 2, 4 | $4.47 (billed quarterly) | $11.16 | $17.86 | In stock | Eygelshoven, NL |
| HostHatch Storage | $5.00 | $9.00 | $16.00 | In stock | Amsterdam, Stockholm, US |
| **Coffervale**, 12-month term | $1.66 | $3.34 | $7.53 | Orderable; set up by hand | Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău |
| **Coffervale**, month to month | $2.37 | $4.77 | $10.75 | Orderable; set up by hand | Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău |

*Prices checked on November 2, 2026.*

BuyVM: sum of the listed slice ($3.00) and slab prices, not a bundle BuyVM sells. Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026).

## What does a slab do that a fixed storage VPS does not?

**A slab separates the server from the disk: you can add storage in 256 GB steps without moving your data.** The slice keeps its NVMe system disk and Ryzen core for the operating system and applications, and the slab holds the bulk. A storage VPS sells disk and server as one fixed plan. At Coffervale: To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch.

If growing in small steps matters more than the smallest monthly bill, some in-stock hosts sell add-on disks: VSYS Host listed an extra 1 TB of HDD at $6.00 a month and LiteServer an extra 256 GB at €2.50 a month on 2 November 2026.

## Which alternative to BuyVM slabs fits which need?

**Start from the one requirement you will not bend on, then compare prices inside that group.**

- **Monero payment:** BuyVM, VSYS Host, Privex, Hostbrr, VPSLab, PrivateAlps named Monero on their own pages; BuyVM is one of them. Coffervale takes Monero as well; it accepts BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR.
- **No documented ID trigger, in stock in Europe:** HostHatch, NolimitHost, Privex and PrivateAlps. The full split between "no" and "conditional" is in [is there a storage VPS that does not ask for ID?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-without-kyc/ "Storage VPS without KYC")
- **A US location:** HostHatch (Los Angeles, Chicago) and InterServer, which sells 1 TB slices at $3.00 in the US only.
- **Least expensive per TB in Europe:** DeluxHost, Hostbrr and HostHatch, in that order, among hosts that take crypto and ask no ID.
- **Several terabytes:** plans from 2 to 8 TB are compared in [which VPS gives the most storage for the money?](https://coffervale.com/vps-with-lots-of-storage/ "VPS with lots of storage, 2 to 8 TB")

Every seller, with stock and billing, is in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS price index")

## How do I move data from a BuyVM slab to a storage VPS?

**Copy with rsync over SSH while the old server still runs, then copy again just before you switch.** The second pass only sends what changed. `-a` keeps permissions and times, `-H`, `-A` and `-X` add hard links, ACLs and extended attributes, and `--numeric-ids` keeps owner numbers as they are. A Borg or restic repository can be copied the same way while no backup is running.

*Two-pass copy from the slab to the new server*

```bash
# On the BuyVM slice: first full copy of the slab's mount point
rsync -aHAX --numeric-ids --info=progress2 /mnt/slab/ root@203.0.113.20:/srv/data/
# Just before the switch: send only the changes and drop files deleted since
rsync -aHAX --numeric-ids --delete --info=progress2 /mnt/slab/ root@203.0.113.20:/srv/data/
```

## BuyVM storage slab alternative: questions

### Are BuyVM storage slabs on HDD or SSD?

BuyVM's slab page did not state the disk type on 2 November 2026; it mentions large NVMe read and write buffers. The older Storage VPS page describes RAID-60 arrays, but that product could not be ordered.

### When will BuyVM have KVM slices in stock again?

No date was published. The slice configuration pages said only that orders were suspended while the item was out of stock.

### Can I attach a BuyVM slab to a slice in another location?

No. BuyVM requires the slice to be in the same facility as the slab.

### Does Coffervale sell add-on disks like a slab?

Not at launch. To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. Plans run from 500 GB to 8 TB; Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS.

### Which storage VPS takes Monero like BuyVM?

On 2 November 2026: BuyVM, VSYS Host, Privex, Hostbrr, VPSLab, PrivateAlps. Of those 6, all but BuyVM had a storage plan in stock that day. Coffervale has also accepted Monero since 3 November 2026.

## Sources

1. [Block Storage Slabs](https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02)
2. [KVM dedicated server slices](https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02)
3. [Storage VPS (older page)](https://buyvm.net/storage-vps/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02)
4. [Las Vegas slab cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=42) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02)
5. [New York slab cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=45) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02)
6. ["Switzerland" slab cart (linked as Luxembourg)](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=46) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02)
7. [Miami slab cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=49) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02)
8. [Las Vegas KVM slice cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=37) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02)
9. [Slice configuration page (RYZEN KVM 512MB)](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?a=add&pid=1439) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02)
10. [Why BuyVM: payment methods](https://buyvm.net/why-buyvm/) — BuyVM (read 2026-10-29)
11. [Terms of service](https://buyvm.net/terms-of-service/) — BuyVM (read 2026-10-29)
12. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02)
13. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02)
14. [Storage VPS](https://nolimit.host/cloud/storage-vps.php) — NolimitHost (read 2026-11-02)
15. [Products: storage](https://hosthatch.com/products#storage) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02)
16. [Storage VPS](https://www.interserver.net/vps/storage.html) — InterServer (read 2026-11-02)
17. [Storage VPS hosting](https://vsys.host/storage-vps-hosting) — VSYS Host (read 2026-11-02)
18. [HDD storage VPS](https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/) — LiteServer (read 2026-11-02)
19. [rsync(1) manual page](https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1) — rsync project (Samba) (checked 2026-11-02)
20. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30)

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Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026.