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Two regions where the
internet converges.

Amsterdam and New York are two cities on earth where the Internet converges. By hosting your VPS in one of these cities your traffic to your users will go in the fewest possible hops.

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The case for these two cities

A datacenter region is only as good as the underlying network it is located in.

We host Datacenters in the busiest internet edges of the world. For Europe and the US East coast we selected 2 metros where most of the traffic for these regions already passes through: Amsterdam and New York.

Amsterdam

Europe interconnection capital.

Amsterdam is the interconnection capital of Europe. Our Amsterdam datacenter is hosted at AMS-IX, the largest public internet exchange in the world by number of connected networks. This means that peering with thousands of networks is made very easy in one peering fabric. As a result, traffic from European ISPs and content networks to your VPS will not leave the local country as it would with other VPS providers. It will cross one hop to our location and land there.

  • Peering with all major EU consumer ISPs, mobile operators and CDNs.
  • RTT to London, Frankfurt, Paris, Brussels and the rest of the Nordic countries is all below sub-15 ms.
  • EU jurisdiction: Data does not have to leave the EEA unless we are specifically told to do so.
  • The Dutch DC sector transparently publishes numbers on PUE and renewable energy mix per year.
New York

North America interconnection capital.

Our New York / NYC datacenter is located inside of New York City (not in New Jersey). There are multiple long-haul transit, submarine cable landings and US tier-1 networks with points of presence in Hudson Street carrier-hotel cluster within a block of our datacenter. The majority of other "New York" hosting centers are located in the NJ metro fall-back area.

  • Note that NYC is not in the NJ Metro Area (where most other "New York" based servers are actually hosted).
  • Direct reach to US East ISPs, eyeball networks and tier-1 backbones.
  • Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Eastern Canada single-digit RTT.
  • US jurisdiction. The natural transatlantic endpoint to Europe.
Identical on both sides

All hardware, memory, storage, virtualization, control plane, API and plan options are identical for the Amsterdam and New York locations. The only difference between the two locations is the jurisdiction of the EU vs. the US and the regional network for peerings.

Two regions in detail

Pick where your VPS lives.

We run the exact same hardware, the same plans and the same prices in both Amsterdam and New York. The only differences are the legal jurisdiction (EU vs. US) and the network(s) that you want to peer with

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EU-West

Amsterdam

Netherlands, Western Europe

EU-West. Amsterdam. Netherlands, Western Europe. The default region for any platform whose primary audience lives in Europe, the UK, the Nordics or the DACH region. Lowest possible RTT to EU eyeball networks; data stays under EU jurisdiction.

Best for
EU, UK, Nordics, DACH
Jurisdiction
European Union (GDPR)
Network
Multi-homed, AMS-IX-adjacent
Datacenter class
Tier III equivalent
Maintenance window
Sundays 02:00 to 06:00 CET
Standard From $18.40/moon 2-year term
Dedicated From $29.60/moon 2-year term
High Memory From $199.20/moon 2-year term
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US East

New York

United States, East Coast (NYC, not NJ)

Located inside New York City around the Hudson Street carrier-hotel instead of in NJ metro where most providers locate their US East servers. The default region for us platforms that serve US East, Eastern Canada or LatAm-North audiences.

Best for
US East, Eastern Canada
Jurisdiction
United States
Network
Multi-homed, NYC carrier hotel
Datacenter class
Tier III equivalent
Maintenance window
Sundays 02:00 to 06:00 EST
Standard From $18.40/moon 2-year term
Dedicated From $29.60/moon 2-year term
High Memory From $199.20/moon 2-year term
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How to pick

Match the region to the audience, not the other way around.

If most of your users live in

Europe, the UK, the Nordics or DACH

Peering at AMS-IX has a very deep reach into the majority of consumer and business ISPs across the entire continent of Europe, the UK, the Nordics and DACH countries. Therefore, if your end users are based in Europe, the UK, the Nordics or DACH countries then hosting in almost all cases Amsterdam would be a far better location for you to run your workload than New York, since running the same workload in NY would only add transatlantic cabling latency to requests made by users based in Europe.

If most of your users live in

The US East, Eastern Canada, or LatAm North

Pick New York as it connects you to the US East, Eastern Canada and LatAm North. NYC's carrier hotels, like 60 Hudson Street, allow for single-digit RTT to cities like Boston, MA, Washington D.C., and Miami, FL. EU workloads in Amsterdam would add around 80ms of latency per request.

If you need to be in both because of

Compliance or data residency

If you need to be in both regions (for Compliance or Data Residency reasons). Run EU customers data on Amsterdam, US customers data on New York. Same Platform, same Plans, same Pricing, just different legal jurisdiction.

If your motivation is

Resilience and disaster recovery

Mirror your hot sites in a second region. Then, if a major regional disaster hits your primary region, you can switch to the second site in a matter of seconds instead of going through the long restore from back up process.

Infrastructure standards

Both regions, the same policy.

Architecture decisions on sustained performance are made at the platform level, not region level.

Compute

  • AMD EPYC, single-socket nodes
  • DDR4 ECC memory on the Standard and HM hosting plans, and DDR5 ECC memory on the Dedicated servers.
  • KVM with hardware-assisted virtualisation
  • Independent kernel per VPS

Node policy

  • Memory and vCPU capped below physical maximum
  • Headroom on every node reserved by design
  • Dedicated CPU pins cores 1:1, never time-sliced
  • No overselling: sold capacity is real capacity

Network and IP

  • Multi-homed upstream transit
  • Public ASN, disclosed in the panel
  • IPv4 and /64 IPv6 included per VPS
  • rDNS configurable, outbound mail rate-limited by default

Reliability

  • N+1 power with dual feeds and generator backup
  • Redundant network switching
  • Region-specific maintenance windows, announced in advance
  • Region-specific status page with incident communication

Security

  • Hypervisor-level isolation between tenants
  • Segmented management network
  • VLAN and firewall support
  • Baseline network-level DDoS mitigation at the edge

Operations

  • Same provisioning API in both regions
  • Same pricing per plan across regions
  • Same support team, same SLAs, same response times
  • Account, billing and history shared across regions
Same plans, same price

Thirteen plans. Both regions. No region surcharge.

Pick a plan. Pick a region. Prices for the plans you keep will freeze; there will be no EU vs US pricing; and there will be no renewal price hike.

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Standard From $18.40/moon 2-year term Shared 1:4 vCPU, 5 plans, S-4 to S-64
Dedicated CPU From $29.60/moon 2-year term Pinned 1:1 cores, 5 plans, D-4 to D-64
High Memory From $199.20/moon 2-year term 1:8 RAM ratio, 3 plans, H-64 to H-192

Deploy in Amsterdam or New York.
Both are ready right now.

The hardware, control software and support are all the same in both regions. So pick a plan, pick a region and have a brand new VPS up and running within a minute.

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FAQ

Common questions

Which region should I pick?
VPSes should be placed in the region where your target audience is located. VPSes in Amsterdam are ideal for EU customers. Users from US East and Eastern Canada would be better off with a VPS in New York. Although you can still send traffic from other regions to your VPSes (inter-region traffic), sending traffic from the wrong region around the world to a single VPS would add a transatlantic round-trip for every request.
Is the price different per region?
No. The price for a plan (for example a 32 GB server) is the same in Amsterdam and in New York City. There is no EU/US tax split and no surcharge for a location in another region.
Can I migrate a VPS between regions?
First, take a snapshot of your VPS. Then, using the API or the control panel, restore this snapshot in the region where you want your VPS to be located. You can then decommission your old VPS. We don't do live cross-region migrations because then you wouldn't know what's happening on the network. The path to your snapshots is honest and can be reversed at any time.
Is the API identical across regions?
Yes. The control panel, provisioning API and virtualisation stack are all the same code path for Amsterdam and New York, so automation written for one region will work for the other region as well.
Can I run one VPS in each region under one account?
Absolutely, within one single account, under one single bill and from within one single control panel, for Amsterdam as well as for New York. Most of our customers set up geo-redundant primary plus mirror configurations across regions.
Are the benchmarks comparable between regions?
The hardware (servers, storage and so on) and the virtualisation layer (BIOS settings and so on) are identical between regions. We publish per-region benchmarks as well as the raw logs for those benchmark tests, so you can verify the figures for yourself.
Do backups stay in the same region as the VPS?
By default your VPS backups will be located within the same region as your VPS. If you would like your backups to be located in cross-region storage (for example Amsterdam backups stored in New York storage) then please make this change in the control panel first.
How are maintenance windows announced?
You can find the region-specific status page as well as email notifications under your account status page. We do scheduled maintenance on Sundays from 02:00 to 06:00 local time in the region where your server is located. Emergency maintenance will be announced as soon as possible after the cause of the maintenance has been identified.
What inter-region latency should I expect?
Public internet latency is approximately 75-90 ms from Amsterdam to New York. Our inter-region network connectivity is multi-homed at both ends of the connection.
Are more regions coming?
We're currently evaluating potential new regions to add to the existing Amsterdam and New York locations. In order to add a new region, we look at four different criteria: real customer demand in said region, upstream diversity (how many providers reach said region), network quality (how fast the network is within said region), and operational sustainability (whether we can run a reliable and efficient operations team within said region). Once all of these criteria have been met for a specific region, we'll add it to the list of existing regions. Until then, we'll keep things as they are with two regions.
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