# VPSNine is coming back *2026-10-09 ยท VPSNine* > VPSNine sold Linux VPS from 2011. After a few quiet years it is relaunching on new NVMe hardware, operated by Tekari. Here is what is planned. Source: https://vpsnine.com/blog/vpsnine-is-coming-back VPSNine started selling Linux servers in 2011. If you hung around LowEndBox or LowEndTalk back then, you might remember us: small servers, small prices, and a plans page that promised "59 second Activation". Then we went quiet for a few years, and now we're bringing it back. ## What it used to be From 2016 to 2021 our entry plan was Budget 256. That's 256 MB of RAM, one core and 10 GB of disk, for $9 a month, running on SolusVM. There were yearly specials with a banner on every page. From 2019 to 2021 there was a Bitcoin VPS page where you paid an invoice by scanning a QR code, and your server was created once the payment had a confirmation. 256 MB was a perfectly useful server in 2016. Today it wouldn't comfortably run a package manager. The specs never mattered much. What we liked was the deal itself, a Linux box that's yours, ready quickly, at a fair monthly price, with an actual person reading the support email. That part we're keeping. ## What's different this time The hardware is new, with NVMe storage. Servers run on KVM, so you get your own kernel and Docker, WireGuard and the rest just work. Every server gets an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address. There's a serial console in the browser, so a bad firewall rule doesn't mean a support ticket. The biggest change is one you mostly won't see. Last time, like most small hosts, we ran on bought-in software: SolusVM for the servers, a billing system for the invoices. This time we're writing our own control panel, API, billing and command-line tool. [Why we're building our own control panel](https://vpsnine.com/blog/why-we-are-building-our-own-panel) goes into the reasons. Mostly, we want to be able to fix things ourselves. Payment at launch is Bitcoin, through a payment server we run. Card and PayPal come once they're approved. [Payment methods](https://vpsnine.com/help/payment-methods) has the details. VPSNine is now operated by Tekari. Support is by ticket in the panel, or at hello@vpsnine.com, and the people who answer are the people who run the servers. ## What stays the same Billing is monthly, with no setup fee or lock-in, and there's a 14-day [money-back guarantee](https://vpsnine.com/help/money-back-guarantee). And the 59 seconds. It's still the number we're building toward, from a confirmed payment to a server you can log in to. It stays a target until real orders show what we actually manage. [What "59 seconds" means](https://vpsnine.com/blog/what-59-seconds-means) explains what it covers. ## When Soon. We're setting up the hardware now and won't open until it's been tested properly. The planned sizes are on the [plans page](https://vpsnine.com/plans), though they can still change. Prices and locations get announced when orders open, not before, because we don't know them for certain yet. Accounts are already open at my.vpsnine.com, if you want to set up 2FA and add your SSH keys ahead of time. Or join the waitlist at the bottom of this page. It sends one email, on the day orders open.