Buyers rarely leave a proxy provider over features. They leave over a bill that grew, a balance that vanished, a country that stopped working, or a support ticket that went unanswered. This page is organised around those four.
Everything we can stand behind
Their site is vshield.com.
We have no verified current rate for vShield on file. Printing a guess would make this page worse than useless, so the price row below is empty and the reading list is not.
Find the rate available with no commitment, then find the cheapest rate and what it costs to reach. The distance between those two tells you what kind of vendor you are dealing with.
Their own description, read this week
On 9 September 2026 the site introduced itself as "vShield - KVM VPS, Dedicated Servers and Web Hosting with DDoS Protection". Their meta description, the sentence Google shows under the link, says: "KVM virtual servers, dedicated servers and web hosting with enterprise DDoS protection. 10 global datacenters including Montreal, Paris, New York. From $12.99/mo."
What else that page states, without interpretation:
Their pricing page is titled "vShield CP - Login".
Every line above is a quotation from their marketing rather than a measurement by us. It is included because it is checkable, not because it is evidence of performance.
How far back the record goes
The domain was registered on 5 June 2012, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 14 years old. The lookup behind those dates ran on 9 September 2026. As things stand the domain is held to 5 June 2027.
This proves nothing about the product. It is a cheap check against the one failure mode that costs buyers real money in this market, which is paying a provider that will not exist in six months.
What our crawl found
We crawled 54 pages of their site and found 4 blog pages.
The number is not a compliment or a criticism. It describes how much of their effort goes into being found, which is worth knowing when you are weighing a marketing claim against a measurement.
What people actually search about vShield
Search volume around the name runs to 10 a month, split as 10 a month for their pricing. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
The biggest slice is people trying to work out what it costs, so the useful thing to hand a reader is evidence rather than an opinion.
The questions behind the numbers
Why 195 countries tells you nothing
Country totals are counted generously across this whole market. A country with a handful of addresses counts the same as one with hundreds of thousands. If your work depends on one location, test that location before you switch.
Per gigabyte against per address
Half this market prices bandwidth and half prices addresses. A per-address plan is cheap for heavy traffic through few exits and ruinous for light traffic through many, and the reverse holds for per-gigabyte plans.
Concurrency limits decide throughput
A plan with generous traffic and a low thread limit is a slow plan. Find both numbers before you size anything, because the smaller of the two is your actual ceiling.
The comparison, honestly framed
Set the two side by side on the questions that decide the outcome, rather than on feature counts:
| Question to ask | vShield | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Read their current terms | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Check the current terms, this one moves | None |
| Identity checks | Their terms page answers this | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Check the current terms, this one moves | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Their terms page answers this | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Read the table as a list of questions rather than a scoreboard. The answers on their side move, and the row that decides the outcome, success rate on your target, is not printable by anyone.
The measurement that outranks every review
This costs less than a coffee and produces the only evidence that applies to your workload.
- Take the smallest paid unit each provider will sell you. A free trial works for a first pass, though trials sometimes ride better pools than paid plans do.
- Fire the same batch through both on one afternoon. Different days are different conditions, and that ruins the comparison.
- Track the success rate and the bandwidth. A cheap gigabyte that fails half the time is not cheap.
- Run a sample of the addresses through an independent lookup, because advertised geography and actual geography differ more often than the market admits.
- Go with whichever performed, then measure again next quarter. Networks change underneath you.
Where else buyers look
If this one does not fit, these are the nearest comparable providers we have written up, each on the same terms as this page.
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Our own position
Residential starts at $0.44 per GB, the balance never expires, there is no minimum commitment and no sales call, and city and ISP targeting are included. We publish our free side openly, 129,131,311 verification checks and counting, because a network that is confident has no reason to fear measurement.
