Servarica vs SSD Nodes: Which Is Better?
We track Servarica and SSD Nodes prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About ServaricaServarica is a Canadian-owned and operated hosting provider founded in 2010. It started as an internal hosting project and grew into a full provider with its own routers, ASN and multi-carrier network out of a single Montreal data center. The catalog spans KVM VPS with dedicated cores, NVMe and RAIDz2 storage VPS with daily-expanding disks, dedicated servers from compact EPYC boxes to 192 TB storage giants, a Tesla P40 GPU VPS, and shared hosting with 2 TB plans. All plans sit behind a 99.99% network SLA with cash refunds, and the facility runs on 100% hydroelectric power.
About SSD NodesSSD Nodes is a budget-focused VPS provider founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tustin, California. It rents capacity from the Hivelocity data center network and runs its own Vippy virtualization stack, which lets it offer KVM plans with 8 GB RAM and up from just $5.50/mo on 3-year terms. The company is deliberately VPS-only and covers 14 locations across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Servarica | SSD Nodes |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $1.33 win | $3.25 |
| Renewal price | Same price (no intro deals) | — |
| Datacenters | 1 | 14 win |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | Weekly (shared only) | — |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | Ticket & email 24/7 | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.01% | 99.20% win |
Price History
Servarica · SSD StarterCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
SSD Nodes · SSL CertificateCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Servarica 99.01% SSD Nodes 99.20%Pros & Cons
Servarica- Genuine budget pricing — KVM VPS from $5/mo with dedicated cores
- Unmetered bandwidth on most plans (250 Mbps, growing +1 Mbps/day)
- Huge storage options — up to 8 TB RAIDz2 VPS and 24× 8 TB dedicated
- 100% Canadian-owned, single Montreal DC outside US data law
- Tiered SLA: 99.0%+ = 15% refund, up to 100% below 95% uptime
- Dedicated IPMI console included on all dedicated servers
- Single data center — no redundancy across regions
- Ticket/email support only — no live chat or phone
- No DDoS protection advertised on any plan
- Older dedicated hardware on budget tiers (Xeon E5 v2/v4, DDR3)
- Fraud screening can delay new orders by hours
- No money-back guarantee — refunds only via the SLA
SSD Nodes- Rock-bottom VPS pricing — KVM / SMALL from $5.50/mo on a 3-year term
- NVMe storage on 4X-LARGE and up (720 GB – 1.92 TB) at prices far below the market
- 14 locations across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific (Hivelocity network)
- Free IPv6, 10 Gbps ports and full root access on every plan
- No bandwidth overage fees — soft caps with upgrade recommendations
- 14-day money-back guarantee with 24/7 support
- Best prices require 3-year prepayment — monthly billing costs ~25% more
- VPS only — no dedicated servers, cloud, or managed hosting
- Entry tiers still run SATA SSDs — NVMe starts at the 4X-LARGE tier
- Aging Intel Silver CPUs — no AMD EPYC/Ryzen or newer Xeon options
- Bandwidth capped at 4–48 TB/mo — no unmetered plans
- No phone or live-chat support — tickets and email only
The Verdict
On the data we track, SSD Nodes wins more rows in the comparison table above (2 vs 1). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
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FAQ
Right now Servarica has the lower entry price across the plans we track. Prices update every few hours — the live snapshot above always shows the current starting price for both.
Over the last 30 days of our monitoring, SSD Nodes had the higher measured uptime. We ping both providers every few minutes from multiple locations — see the uptime graph above.
Yes. Both run standard KVM virtualization, so you can snapshot your server, export the image, and import it on the other provider. For most stacks a fresh deploy plus a data copy is simpler.
It depends on your priority: pick the one that wins on the rows that matter most to you in the table above (price, uptime, datacenters, backups). For latency-sensitive apps favour uptime and network; for value favour price and specs.