LayerOne Tampa, FL KVM VPS from $17.99/Year – SAS SSD, DDoS Protection Included, 50% First Deposit Bonus
LayerOne has launched a new lineup of budget-friendly KVM VPS plans out of Tampa, Florida, starting at just $17.99/year as part of a LowEndTalk-exclusive promotion. LayerOne is the rebrand of the previously known provider Pulsar67, now running on new hardware and a new colocation facility. If you are looking for an affordable, entry-level KVM VPS with enterprise SAS SSD storage and DDoS protection included at no extra cost, this launch offer is worth a closer look.
Launch Promotion: 50% Deposit Match
New customers using promo code LOWENDTALK can receive a 50% match on their first deposit, up to $25 in bonus credit. The minimum deposit to qualify is $5, and the maximum bonus is unlocked at a $50 deposit. This bonus applies once per customer account, so it’s worth planning your initial top-up amount to make the most of it.
Promo Plans
Both plans share the same KVM virtualization, 2.5 Gbps port, enterprise SAS SSD storage, and included DDoS protection — they differ in vCPU allocation, RAM, storage size, and price. Each plan can be ordered on a discounted annual term or paid hourly against account credit.
LayerOne Nano (gc.nano) – $17.99/year
- vCPU: 1 core
- RAM: 1024 MB
- Storage: 20 GB Enterprise SAS SSD
- Bandwidth: 2 TB included transfer
- Port Speed: 2.5 Gbps
- IPv4: 1 dedicated address
- DDoS Protection: Included, always-on L3/L4
- Public Price: $28.80/year (this is a 37% discount)
- Hourly Option: $0.0034/hour (~$2.50/month)
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LayerOne Starter (gc.micro) – $23.99/year
- vCPU: 1 core
- RAM: 2048 MB
- Storage: 40 GB Enterprise SAS SSD
- Bandwidth: 2 TB included transfer
- Port Speed: 2.5 Gbps
- IPv4: 1 dedicated address
- DDoS Protection: Included, always-on L3/L4
- Public Price: $48.00/year (this is a 50% discount)
- Hourly Option: $0.0047/hour (~$3.50/month)
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About LayerOne
LayerOne, LLC is a registered Florida limited liability company with a Tampa mailing address; customer servers themselves run in a separate Tampa-metro data center facility. The company was built around a specific complaint about the budget hosting market: as LayerOne puts it, “so much of the budget hosting market sells capacity it does not have and support it cannot staff.” Its answer is billing transparency and owned infrastructure rather than reselling someone else’s capacity.
Why This VPS Launch Stands Out
- True KVM virtualization with full root access, backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA. Each VPS runs on Intel Xeon Skylake-SP or newer processors with conservative vCPU oversubscription, giving you a real virtual machine rather than a container-based instance.
- Enterprise SAS SSD storage. Both plans use enterprise-grade SAS SSD disks rather than standard SATA SSDs, which typically means better sustained I/O performance for databases, web apps, and general workloads.
- DDoS protection included at no extra cost. LayerOne provides always-on Layer 3/Layer 4 upstream filtering combined with its own mitigation rules — a feature that’s often an expensive add-on elsewhere.
- 2.5 Gbps port on every plan. Even the entry-level Nano plan gets a 2.5 Gbps network port, well above the 1 Gbps that’s typical at this price point.
- Hourly, credit-based billing model. Because billing is metered hourly against account credit, you can delete a server mid-term without being locked into remaining contract costs — a flexible option if your needs change.
- Multiple premium network upstreams. LayerOne runs its own ASN (AS31916) with upstream connectivity through Hurricane Electric, GTT Communications, NTT America, and Arelion, helping ensure solid routing and redundancy.
Payment Methods
LayerOne accepts both credit/debit card payments and cryptocurrency, giving flexibility for customers who prefer either option — including privacy-focused customers who’d rather not tie a card to their account. Billing runs on hourly metering against prepaid credit, and LayerOne notes there are no automatic renewals to catch you off guard.
Network Information
Tampa, Florida
- Test IPv4: 207.174.22.1
