--- title: "Raff Technologies Plans, Pricing & Renewal Costs (2026) | Digital Hosting" url: https://digitalhosting.com/providers/raff description: "Raff Technologies plans and pricing — from $4.99/mo (General Purpose 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 25 GB NVMe, unmetered bandwidth; $3.49 for the first month on…" lang: en --- Fig. 01 · Provider Brief # Raff Technologies Windows Server workloads where you want the licence and per-user fees on the invoice before you buy, or a US East Linux VPS with unmetered bandwidth from a small provider that answers questions in writing Rated 3.5 / 5 Check Current Pricing: https://rafftechnologies.com/pricing?ref=89E83357 Prices verified: November 2026 · Researched by W. Miller (https://digitalhosting.com/about#authors) and the Digital Hosting editorial team — how we review providers (https://digitalhosting.com/how-we-test) Disclosure: We earn a commission if you buy Raff Technologies through our link. It does not affect the rating, which is set before any link is added. Our take The first provider in our VPS set that prints Windows Server pricing the way a buyer needs it: compute on one line, the $15.00/mo Windows Server Standard licence on the next, $0 if you bring your own licence, and $8.00 per user for Remote Desktop. The entry Windows plan is $28.99/mo all in; Linux General Purpose starts at $4.99/mo, and bandwidth is unmetered on every plan. The SLA is unusually plain: 99.9% monthly, credits of 10%, 25% and 100%, and a written statement that Cost-Optimized plans are not covered at all. Against that, Raff is a 2025 company with one region on its public pages (US East, Virginia), a Frankfurt region that is live but not yet documented, and a 28-hour storage incident on 31 July 2026 that pulled July and August under the 99.9% commitment. Port 25 is closed by default and opened per server on request. Buy it for the Windows price list and the plain terms, not for a track record, because there is not much of one yet. Best for Windows VPS with the licence priced as its own line Starting price from $4.99/mo General Purpose 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 25 GB NVMe, unmetered bandwidth; $3.49 for the first month on monthly billing renews at $4.99/mo Verified November 2026 Flat after month one. The first-month price applies once per account, to the first server, on monthly billing only; from month two you pay the listed price. Yearly bills ten months of the monthly price and 24-month bills eighteen, and the co-founder confirmed in writing (6 November 2026) that each term renews at the price it was bought at. Windows plans add a $15.00/mo Windows Server Standard licence as its own line (entry 1 vCPU / 2 GB is $28.99/mo all in, $13.99 the first month) with no term discount on the licence; bring your own licence and the line is $0. Cost-Optimized plans from $9.99/mo (2 vCPU / 4 GB) have no first-month price and no SLA. 14-day money-back on the first purchase only. Ease of use Ease of use: 3 of 5 Performance Performance: 3 of 5 Support Support: 3 of 5 Free migration Not applicable Email included Not included Domain included Not included ## Pros - Windows Server pricing printed in full: compute plus a $15.00/mo Windows Server Standard licence through Microsoft SPLA as its own line, $0 with your own eligible licence, and $8.00 per Remote Desktop user per month (read November 2026) - Unmetered bandwidth on every VM plan, DDoS protection included, and a free backup-and-snapshot pool worth 10% of each VM’s disk (15% on CPU-Optimized) - Flat after the first month: yearly bills ten months of the monthly price, 24-month bills eighteen, and the co-founder confirmed in writing that each term renews at the price it was bought at - Price changes need 30 days’ email notice and apply from the next renewal (Terms 4.8); the changes so far have applied to new orders only - A plain SLA: 99.9% monthly with 10%, 25% and 100% credits, and a written statement of what it excludes - Published incident history with timelines, and a post-mortem emailed to affected customers after the July 2026 storage incident ## Cons - A 2025 company with 5 to 10 staff (VPSBenchmarks), 21 Trustpilot reviews and 7 on G2; release notes start in February 2025, so the 2026 incident record is the whole record - One region on the public pages (US East, Virginia). Frankfurt is live in the dashboard but undocumented as of November 2026 and its backups are stored in the US; Singapore is built on request in 3 to 4 days - Outbound port 25 is closed by default and opened per server on request after Raff checks the sending domain and purpose; reverse DNS is set by support, not self-service - The 31 July 2026 storage incident ran 28 hours and affected 30 to 40% of customers; July (98.99%) and August (97.25%) both fell under the 99.9% commitment while the status page headline reads 100% over 90 days - Cost-Optimized plans, the ones in Raff’s own price comparison, carry no SLA and no credits; on the covered plans, credits are by claim within 30 days, not automatic - The ISO 27001 badge is the data-centre operator’s certificate, and Raff prefers not to name the operator; Raff’s own certification is in progress - The 14-day refund covers the first purchase on an account only; later unused time goes to account balance, which cannot be paid out, and an activated Windows licence is not refunded - The “independent” benchmark on Raff’s performance page is Raff’s own test; VPSBenchmarks’ three trials are the third-party source, and we have not run our own Fig. 02 · The deep dive ## Raff Technologies, beyond the scorecard Prices read on rafftechnologies.com in a real browser session on 6 November 2026 (the General Purpose and CPU-Optimized tabs render client-side); SLA, Terms, Acceptable Use Policy, FAQ and status history read the same day; renewal terms, port-25 policy, facility and company structure confirmed in writing by co-founder Batuhan Esirger on 6 November 2026 — verify with the vendor before you buy. ### Plans, as published Three Linux families, all with unmetered bandwidth and NVMe storage. General Purpose (shared AMD EPYC, DDR5 ECC memory) runs from 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB at $4.99/mo through 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB at $17.99 and 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 160 GB at $33.99, as read in November 2026. CPU-Optimized (dedicated vCPU) starts at $15.99/mo for 1 vCPU / 1 GB and $36.99 for 2 vCPU / 4 GB. Cost-Optimized (previous-generation hardware, DDR4, local NVMe on a single node, 1 Gbps port, Linux and FreeBSD only) starts at $9.99/mo for 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 40 GB and $19.99 for 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 80 GB, with no first-month price and no SLA. Windows Server is where the price list earns its place on this site. Every Windows plan is shown as compute plus the $15.00/mo Windows Server Standard licence through Microsoft SPLA, so the entry 1 vCPU / 2 GB / 50 GB plan is $13.99 + $15.00 = $28.99/mo, 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB is $37.99, 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 120 GB is $55.99, 8 vCPU / 16 GB / 180 GB is $91.99, and the ten-plan range tops out at $189.99 with the licence included. Bring your own licence under Microsoft’s Flexible Virtualization Benefit and the licence line is $0. Remote Desktop Services user licences are $8.00 per user per month. No other provider in our VPS set prints these lines separately. First-month pricing applies once per account, to the first server, on monthly billing only: $3.49 then $4.99 on the entry Linux plan, $13.99 then $28.99 on the entry Windows plan. Cost-Optimized plans have no first-month price, and a Cost-Optimized server uses up the offer. Yearly plans bill ten months of the monthly price (about 17% off) and 24-month plans bill eighteen (about 25% off). The Windows licence carries no term discount, which is why the entry Windows plan on a yearly term works out at $26.66/mo rather than $24.16. Included on every plan: DDoS protection, a free backup-and-snapshot storage pool worth 10% of the VM’s disk (15% on CPU-Optimized), private networking, and resizing between sizes within a family with a short power-off. Snapshots beyond the pool are $0.06 per GB per month; VPSBenchmarks lists backups beyond the first three at $0.05 per GB per month. Adding a card places a one-time $1 charge that is credited to your balance. ### The renewal math After month one, Raff is flat. The monthly price is the ongoing price, and the co-founder confirmed in writing on 6 November 2026 that a yearly or 24-month plan renews at the term price it was bought at. Price changes so far have applied to new orders only, and the Terms (section 4.8) require 30 days’ email notice before a change can touch a renewal. That puts Raff in the 1× group of our renewal tracker with DigitalOcean, Vultr, Hetzner and Kamatera. The one-month promotion is the thing to read correctly. The $3.49 and $13.99 headlines are a first-month price on monthly billing, once per account; they do not carry over to a yearly term and they are not a renewal trap, just a smaller first invoice. Budget on $4.99 and $28.99. Refunds are narrower than the 14-day badge suggests. The guarantee covers the first purchase on an account only, once. After that, deleting a resource early returns the unused time to your Raff account balance, less any discount you received, and balance is never paid back to a card. An activated Windows licence is not refunded at all. Renewal figures come from our Hosting Renewal Price Index (https://digitalhosting.com/articles/hosting-renewal-prices) — intro vs renewal pricing for every provider we cover, verified on vendor sites and dated. ### Choose Raff Technologies if - Windows Server workloads — accounting software, Remote Desktop users, .NET apps — where you want the licence and per-user fees on the invoice before you buy - A US East Linux server with unmetered bandwidth and no overage line to model - Buyers who want a small provider that answers questions in writing — every open point in this profile was answered by a co-founder, including the ones that do not flatter the company - A yearly or 24-month term, since the discount is real and the renewal price is the price you paid ### Look elsewhere if - You need a region other than US East today — Frankfurt is live but not yet on the public pages, Singapore is built on request in 3 to 4 days, and Frankfurt backups are stored in the US - You are self-hosting mail — port 25 is closed by default and opened per server on request, and reverse DNS goes through support - You need a long track record, or a contractual guarantee on the cheapest plans — the company dates from 2025 and Cost-Optimized plans have no SLA - You want the lowest price in the category — Cost-Optimized at $9.99 for 2 vCPU / 4 GB is competitive, but General Purpose at $17.99 for the same shape is not Hetzner money ### Migration notes Standard self-managed VPS rules: your bits, your backups. Two Raff specifics. First, the 14-day refund is once per account, so test on the first purchase, not the second. Second, if the workload is mail, file the port-25 and reverse-DNS requests with support before cutover: port 25 is opened per server after Raff has checked the sending domain and what the mail is for, and reverse DNS is set by the support team, so neither is instant. Snapshots are a rollback point on the same platform, not an off-platform backup, and Raff’s own FAQ says so. ### Honest limitations “US-based” needs a qualifier. Raff Technologies LLC is a Wyoming company (30 N Gould St, Sheridan) that runs the service and its support. A second company under common ownership, Dynamis Teknoloji A.Ş. in Ankara, contracts with customers whose billing address is in Türkiye, for compliance with Turkish law; everyone else contracts with the LLC, under Wyoming law, binding arbitration and a class-action waiver. Both companies were formed in January 2025, and the engineering team works across Türkiye and the United States. The co-founder set this out plainly when asked. It is not a mark against the company; it is a fact the About page does not print. The servers are leased, the platform is Raff’s. Raff runs its own platform on racks and dedicated servers rented under long-term contracts from an infrastructure partner in every region (Vint Hill, Virginia today; near Frankfurt; Singapore next), announces its own IP space under its own network number and does not resell another provider’s cloud. The ISO 27001 badge in the footer is the facility operator’s certificate, not Raff’s; Raff’s own is in progress and it says it will not call itself certified until the certificate is awarded. Raff prefers not to name the operator publicly. The status page headline and its own monthly table disagree. The headline reads 100.000% and 0 incidents over 90 days, which has been true since 1 August 2026. The 12-month table underneath shows July 2026 at 98.99% and August at 97.25%, both under the 99.9% commitment, from one incident: a hardware fault in the network between storage nodes dropped replication traffic from 16:31 UTC on 31 July, the cause was found at 02:30 UTC on 1 August, and the incident closed at 20:30 UTC that day. Raff says it affected 30 to 40% of customers, that no data was lost because storage is replicated three times, and that a post-mortem went by email to every affected customer. March (99.95%) and June (99.87%) carry shorter compute incidents. SLA credits are by claim, not automatic: contact support within 30 days and the credit lands on your account balance in the next billing period. The plans in Raff’s own price comparison have no SLA. The pricing page sets a $19.99 Cost-Optimized plan beside nine rivals under a 99.9% uptime line. The SLA says Cost-Optimized VMs run on a single node’s local disk, are not covered and earn no credits, and the co-founder confirmed it. General Purpose, CPU-Optimized and Windows plans have the 99.9% in writing. General Purpose vCPUs are also burstable: sustained use above 40% is paced by CPU credits under the Acceptable Use Policy, so a steady full-core workload belongs on CPU-Optimized. The “Independent testing of 8 VPS providers” on Raff’s performance page is Raff’s own test, which the co-founder accepts. The third-party source is VPSBenchmarks, which has run three trials: a General Purpose 2 vCPU / 4 GB plan in March 2026 (score 55), a CPU-Optimized 4 vCPU / 8 GB in June 2026 (55) and a General Purpose 8 vCPU / 16 GB in September 2026 (38), with provisioning in 30 to 40 seconds. We have not run our own tests and Raff is not yet in our uptime study. Raff is small and new, and the profile should be read that way. VPSBenchmarks lists it as founded in 2025 with 5 to 10 staff. Release notes start in February 2025. Trustpilot shows 21 reviews at 4.5 (profile claimed May 2025) and G2 shows 7 at 4.6; “3,000+ customers” and “15,000+ VMs” are Raff’s own figures. None of that is disqualifying. It means the 2026 incident record is the whole record, and that the listing will be re-read in February 2027. Testing status: we haven't load-tested Raff Technologies ourselves yet. This profile is built from vendor documentation, published plan specs and SLAs, and long-running community reports — and the pricing above is verified on the vendor's site, not copied from marketing. See how we test (https://digitalhosting.com/how-we-test) for exactly what that means. ## If Raff Technologies isn't right ### Alternatives to consider - NetArt (https://digitalhosting.com/providers/netart) — loaded plans with a published sla - IONOS (https://digitalhosting.com/providers/ionos) — lowest first-year cost — if you plan the exit ## Where Raff Technologies fits Compare Raff Technologies alongside other picks in the categories it competes in: - VPS Hosting →: https://digitalhosting.com/best-vps-hosting - Cloud Hosting →: https://digitalhosting.com/best-cloud-hosting Ready to try Raff Technologies? ## Structured data ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "WebSite", "name": "Digital Hosting", "url": "https://digitalhosting.com" }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "name": "Digital Hosting", "url": "https://digitalhosting.com", "logo": "https://digitalhosting.com/og-image.png", "email": "hello@digitalhosting.com", "description": "Independent hosting review site — comparisons for web hosting, VPS, WordPress hosting, business email, and domain registration. 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