NordBastion vs BuyVM.
$2 Vegas KVM, or four Nordic shields.

BuyVM is a long-running budget KVM-VPS provider operating since 2010, now part of Cloudzy. They run from three locations — Las Vegas, New York and Luxembourg — and are known among budget-conscious self-hosters for entry-level KVM slices at $2-3.50/month, their proprietary Stallion control panel, Anycast VPS, modular block-storage slabs at $1.25/256 GB and an advertised 3.5 Tbps+ DDoS capacity. Their unofficial community mascot is the "Moshbear".

At the absolute entry tier, yes, by a clear margin. BuyVM's entry KVM slice is $2/month for 1 vCPU and a small allocation; their dedicated KVM slice is $3.50/month for 1 GB and 20 GB of SSD. NordBastion's entry Sentinel is $5.90/month for 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM — more spec, more money. If your workload runs comfortably on 1 vCPU and 1 GB, BuyVM is the budget choice.

Not prominently on the offer pages. In practice the budget KVM market generally signs customers up on email + password without identity documentation; BuyVM has long been understood by its customers to operate that way. NordBastion publishes its KYC-free posture explicitly and writes it into the doctrine — never collected, on any product, in any tier.

BuyVM's advertised mitigation capacity is one of the highest published numbers in the budget-VPS market. In practice, both NordBastion and BuyVM customers see the same outcome: volumetric attacks are absorbed at the network edge before reaching the customer's VM. NordBastion does not publish a headline gigabit number because the engineering reality is that mitigation engages on transit upstream rather than at the customer-facing port; we instead focus on always-on coverage across all four bastions.

BuyVM runs three regions — Las Vegas (USA), New York (USA) and Luxembourg (EU). NordBastion runs four Nordic bastions — Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo and Reykjavík — every one of them inside a constitutional press-freedom regime. Two of BuyVM's three regions sit inside US legal reach; NordBastion has no US presence.

NordBastion accepts twelve cryptocurrencies. BuyVM's current cryptocurrency basket is not foregrounded on the main product pages; the payment-method information is available at checkout. If accepting a wide range of crypto specifically matters, NordBastion publishes the basket explicitly and BuyVM does not.

Yes, today. BuyVM's Anycast VPS product is one of the few publicly available Anycast hosting options for small customers; it is genuinely useful for low-latency global services and edge-side caching. NordBastion does not currently offer a public Anycast product on the panel; if Anycast is your hard requirement, BuyVM is the answer.

Pick BuyVM if your priorities are absolute lowest entry price ($2/mo), Anycast VPS, modular block-storage at $1.25/256 GB, or running on the Stallion control panel ecosystem familiar to long-time budget-KVM customers. Pick NordBastion if you want Nordic constitutional jurisdictions instead of US-heavy locations, twelve named cryptocurrencies, doctrinal KYC-free signup written into policy, and a fully-automated path to dedicated bare-metal.