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About BuyVPS

Built by operators.
Since 2002.

BuyVPS was founded by two hosting operators with 20+ combined years of running infrastructure. We started this company to build the VPS platform we wanted to buy from someone else, and never could find.

Hosting since
2002operator-led from day one
Founders
2both still in the engineering loop
Regions
2identical stack, AMS + NYC
Funding
Independentno VC, no exit pressure
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Our story

Why we built BuyVPS.

For the last two decades, we've been operating VPS networks in many locations around the world. In between, we've also fixed to switch a few pieces of dead hardware here and there, negotiated with several upstream providers on different continents, and as a "bonus" tried to make a living from almost every business model for hosting an Internet service which has ever been invented.

This is a repetitive cycle. Physical server nodes are at capacity. Only the best-case benchmark numbers numbers are visible, lacking details of the actual configuration. The focus of density is on margin, not stability. It is initially sold with a promotional price for a limited time, after which it reverts to the regular price at renewal.

None of that was an accident, that's a business model and one we chose not to follow. BuyVPS is not an experiment, it's the outworking of the experience of the operators and the platform we wanted to buy for ourselves.

  • Defined limitsUsable memory hard-capped per node, not opportunistic.
  • Documented measurementsMedian and p95 across multiple runs, configuration linked.
  • Disciplined capacity planningHeadroom stays unsold by design, not by mistake.
  • Long-term commitmentIndependent, not optimising for a sale.
Leadership

Founder-led, operator-run.

Our founders are still personally writing tickets, designing our architecture and answering customer escalations. We have no middle management between you and the people that run the hypervisor.

Portrait of Robert Bolder, co-founder of BuyVPS

Robert Bolder

Co-founder, Infrastructure & strategy

I've been working with hosting and infrastructure since 2006. I founded Hosted.nl, a company that provides cloud infrastructure all around the world, with operations in more than 15 locations, and also Hostingway. My career has involved setting up virtual private servers in many different regions, designing data centers, and making sure operations can handle a large scale.

Robert from BuyVPS is the architect for the architecture, the validator for the infrastructure and the long-term road-mapper for the platform.

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Portrait of Sjoerd Klein Meulekamp, co-founder of BuyVPS

Sjoerd Klein Meulekamp

Co-founder, Operations & infrastructure

I am a web hosting and infrastructure services operator since 2002, previously traded under the names COO of Hostingway and CIO of Managed Hosting Services. I have extensive experience of managed hosting at massive scale, building automation frameworks, capacity management and creating SOPs for managed hosting environments.

Sjoerd is currently working on automation frameworks, capacity governance and maintenance plans/SOPs.

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How we operate

Low-density nodes. Published methodology.
Identical stack at both sites.

All architectural decisions need to stem from one simple rule: on day 800 your infrastructure should behave exactly the same as on day 1. That takes a lot of discipline on 3 levels.

01 / Capacity

Usable memory is reserved per node, not opportunistic.

The RAM sold on a node is capped below the physical maximum, so there is some headroom that we don't sell. In terms of CPU, our dedicated CPU plans pin a fixed number of CPU cores on a node (1:1), so there is no time-slicing of work on the physical cores under load.

02 / Measurement

Median and p95 from multiple runs, not the best of one.

I'll be using the median for all the number on the benchmarks page, all ran with detailed config information for reproduction. For Geekbench, I have publicly verifiable results here. Numbers without information on how they were arrived at are just marketing numbers.

03 / Consistency

Same stack. Same control plane. Same SOPs.

We run the same KVM hypervisor, the same NVMe RAID10 setup and the same control plane in Amsterdam and in New York. This holds for newly opened regions as well. The rest of the infrastructure does not have to change just because the name of a region changes in marketing.

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What we won't do

The industry patterns we refused to copy.

Every "no" here is a deliberate commercial trade-off. Other providers do these things because they work for revenue. They do not work for the customer.

We won't

Oversell node capacity

Most VPS providers sell 120-150% of a node's physical capacity and hope tenants stay quiet. We sell less than 100% and keep headroom unsold.

We do

Limit the usable memory on a per-node basis. Pin cores on Dedicated on a 1:1 basis. Document the policy.

We won't

Publish best-run numbers as headline

"Up to" benchmark numbers are common in this industry. The numbers come from one cherry-picked run, often without telling you the config.

We do

post medians and p95s for all runs along with the config and public geekbench link for each run.

We won't

Raise your price at renewal

Pricing for introductory period on shared hosting double in Year Two and now even on VPS hosting is becoming normal. It's a retention pricing, not real hosting service.

We do

The charge made in Year 5 will be identical to the Day 1 charge and you can remove this charge at any time from your Customer Panel.

We won't

Put a chatbot between you and the engineer

The cheapest way to deal with a high volume of support requests is also the slowest way to address real infrastructure issues: Tier-1 deflection.

We do

This team manages their own queue of issues and does not have a Tier-1 support team to escalate to.

Who it's for

Built for teams that plan capacity.

We are not a volume house. BuyVPS is for people who do work that needs a computer to behave in a fairly predictable fashion. They have a latency budget, a capacity to scale within bounds, and on call rotation to name a few things.

Segment 01

SaaS platforms

Multi-tenant / Shared Environment, performance of one customer directly affects the performance of other customers. We guarantee performance per core on a fixed basis (e.g., p99).

Segment 02

Agencies managing client estates

5-50 VPSes for 5-50 clients, same functionality, same billing and same simple process to pay at renewal.

Segment 03

High-concurrency APIs

For request-heavy backends pinned to specific cores on low-density nodes with multi-homed transit, the tail latency of your application today is essentially equal to the worst-case capacity planned for your application.

Segment 04

Production databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and friends. DDR5 ECC on the Dedicated tier, 122k IOPS measured on a 2 vCPU box, no shared SAN.

Company details

Registered office and operating regions.

BuyVPS is an independent Dutch hosting company. Below are the registration details, the operating regions and the channels to reach us.

Registered office
BuyVPS Vlierweg 12 1032 LG Amsterdam The Netherlands
CoC
98861468
VAT
NL868675179B01
Phone
+31 85 369 6285
Operating regions

Identical hardware, identical control plane, identical pricing on both sides.

Channels

See the full contact directory →

Common questions

About us, the founders and the company.

There are many questions that potential clients have before even signing up for a free trial or even a consultation. And if you have any other questions that weren't listed here, please let us know.

  • Who founded BuyVPS and what is their background?

    BuyVPS was founded by Robert Bolder and Sjoerd Klein Meulekamp. Robert has been an infrastructure operator since 2006, founder of Hosted.nl (cloud infrastructure across 15+ locations) and Hostingway. Sjoerd has been operating hosting infrastructure since 2002, previously COO of Hostingway and CIO of Managed Hosting Services. Both still write tickets and design architecture at BuyVPS, there is no management layer between you and the operators.

  • Is BuyVPS financially independent?

    Yes. BuyVPS is independent, founder-owned and not VC-backed. There is no exit pressure and no quarterly revenue target that forces over-density on a node or a renewal hike. The roadmap is set by the operators, not by an investor timeline.

  • What does "low-density node policy" actually mean?

    It means the amount of vCPU and memory we sell on each node is hard-capped below the physical maximum. The Dedicated CPU tier pins cores 1:1 so they are never time-sliced with another customer. Headroom on every node stays unsold by design, we treat it as a feature, not an unallocated leftover.

  • Why do you publish median values instead of best-run numbers?

    "Best run" or "up to" numbers are common in this industry because they look bigger. The problem is they are not what your application sees on day 200. We publish median and p95 across multiple runs with the configuration documented, and every Geekbench result links to its public verification URL so you can check the run independently.

  • Where is BuyVPS registered and what are the company details?

    BuyVPS is registered in the Netherlands at Vlierweg 12, 1032 LG Amsterdam. CoC (KvK) number is 98861468, VAT number is NL868675179B01. The phone line is +31 85 369 6285. Full contact directory and registered office details are on the contact page.

  • Why two regions only, and will you expand?

    Amsterdam and New York cover EU and US-East with the same identical stack, same control plane and same pricing on either side. We expand only when a new region can be brought online under the same architectural principles, not because the marketing wants more dots on the map.

  • What kind of teams is BuyVPS built for?

    Teams that plan capacity and track latency percentiles: SaaS platforms, agencies managing client estates, high-concurrency APIs and production databases. We are not optimised for resellers, ultra-low-cost shared workloads or bulk-quantity migration plays, those are different business models and other providers serve them well.

  • Are you locked into a particular hardware vendor?

    No. The current generation is AMD EPYC Milan and Genoa with NVMe RAID10 and ECC memory across the board. Vendor and silicon choices follow the platform requirements, not a long-term exclusivity contract. When the math says next-gen, we move.

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