Real production VMs: replicated storage that survives hardware failures, live migration off sick hosts, and a hardware option with the fastest x86 single cores money buys. Ready in seconds, from €2 a month.
Same platform, same storage, same network. The choice is the silicon your cores run on, and both numbers below were measured inside ordinary customer VMs.
The workhorse
Proven server hardware for everyday workloads: sites, apps, dev environments, background services.
From €2 /mo
The fastest cores
Desktop-flagship clocks up to 5.7 GHz with server reliability. For databases, latency-bound APIs, builds, and anything that lives on per-core speed.
From €5 /mo
Not different machines: different scheduling priority in the rare moments a host runs hot. Switchable live, no downtime.
Full speed by default, first to yield under host contention, with a guaranteed floor it can never drop below. The cheaper profile.
Dev, staging, CI, sites with spiky traffic
Top scheduling priority, full core speed under any host load, around the clock. Never throttled.
Production services, databases, anything where p99 matters
The price on the card buys a whole machine, not an entry ticket to a menu of add-ons.
A replicated root disk on the storage fabric, free on every VM. Speed tiers up to 200k IOPS one click away.
Per account: 5 TB external and 50 TB internal traffic included monthly, pooled across your VMs, on an unthrottled multi-gigabit port. No speed tiers to buy.
Disks live on the fabric, not on the host. Node maintenance moves your VM without stopping it; a node failure restarts it elsewhere with the disk intact.
Snapshots for fast rollbacks, plus encrypted off-cluster backups at third-party providers in other countries, with your key.
Browser VNC console that works even with broken networking, per-disk metrics against your exact limits, resize and profile switching in place.
A stateful security group on every VM from minute one, fully editable. Warden, the built-in security bastion, one toggle away.
Three engineering decisions you notice from the first minute.
~160 microsecond disk reads measured inside real guests, on replicated network storage. Most clouds sell network volumes at 1-3 milliseconds.
Every disk carries hypervisor-enforced limits, provably exact. Your neighbor physically cannot spend your IOPS budget, and your RAM is yours alone.
Every performance claim comes with the fio command to verify it on your own VM, plus public Geekbench and third-party runs.
The engineering details live in the Compute docs; the raw measurements in Benchmarks.
A real server with a free 25 GB disk and a public IPv4 comes to €2.50 a month all-in.
