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Read postHosting on AS60982,
our own network.
European hosting on our own backbone. All-flash storage, 1 Tbps DDoS, root in 60 seconds.
NODED.CLI
1$ noded vps create --shape starter
2› reserving · allocating IP · booting
3✓ ready in 52s
4ssh [email protected]
€0.0056/hr60s deploy13 regions
12 datacenters99.9% uptime SLA5,000+ serversFree 1 Tbps DDoS
NODED.CLOUD is a European hosting operator (X ZONE IT SRL, Giurgiu, Romania, founded 2023) running our own AS60982 across 12 datacenters — Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Warsaw, Bucharest and 5 more. We provide hourly KVM VPS from €0.0056/hr, bare-metal dedicated from €209/mo, streaming VPS from €9.99/mo, and game server hosting from €2.49/mo with sub-5 ms intra-EU latency, all-flash storage, and free 1 Tbps DDoS protection. Every VPS includes 1 free dedicated static IPv4 and free native IPv6 — IP addresses are not billed separately. VPS and streaming VPS ship from Romania, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
StackVPS, dedicated,
VPS, dedicated,
and game hosting. One bill.
Twelve products. One control plane. One invoice.
SpecsThe numbers we publish,
The numbers we publish,
then quietly beat.
Numbers we publish, then beat.
WorkloadsBuilt for the
Built for the
workloads that matter.
What we run for customers today.
STREAMING & MEDIA
Live streaming, transcoding, and on-demand delivery.
Servers tuned for OBS, FFmpeg, RTMP and HLS, unmetered with no per-VM bandwidth ceiling. Stream as much as you need.
GAME STUDIOSSub-5 ms gameplay for the titles your community plays.
Minecraft, Palworld, CS2, Rust, Valheim, ARK, FiveM, 7 Days to Die, Garry’s Mod — anycast game POPs, 1 Tbps DDoS, instant deploy.
ENTERPRISE APPSHigh-traffic, mission-critical workloads on bare metal.
16–256 cores, 128 GB to 1 TB RAM, networks up to 200 Gbps. Single-tenant performance for the workloads that pay your bills.
E-COMMERCEStorefronts that survive Black Friday traffic.
SSD-backed VPS with auto-scaling burst, free DDoS protection, and EU + US datacenters within 50 ms of every checkout.
DEVELOPMENT & TESTINGCI runners, staging, and short-lived environments.
Hourly VPS from €0.0056/hr. Spin up, run the suite, tear down. No commit, no minimums, no surprises.
VPN & PRIVATE NETWORKINGWireGuard, OpenVPN, and self-hosted tunnels.
Static IPs in 5 EU countries, unmetered egress, and instant VPS from €0.0056/hr. Bring your own keys, route exit traffic where you need it.
Pick your shape
VPS, dedicated, and game hosting. One control plane.
VPS hosting from €0.0056/hr for elasticity, dedicated servers from €209/mo for performance, game hosting from €2.49/mo. Move workloads between them with one CLI command.
VPS
VPS hosting from €0.0056/hr
Hourly or monthly SSD VPS hosting. Web apps, APIs, databases, dev environments — deploy in 60 seconds.
- From€0.0056 / hr
- SetupInstant
- ResourceVirtualized
- RootFull
- IPs1 free IPv4 + IPv6
- NetworkUnmetered · shaped
DEDICATED
Dedicated servers from €209/mo
Single-tenant bare-metal hosting with 16–256 cores and up to 200 Gbps networking.
- From€209 / mo
- Setup1 hour
- Cores16 – 256
- RAM128 GB – 1 TB
- Networkup to 200 Gbps
GAME
Game server hosting from €2.49/mo
Sub-5 ms low-latency hosting for the titles your community plays. 1 Tbps DDoS included.
- From€2.49 / mo
- Latency< 5 ms
- TitlesMinecraft · CS2 · Rust
- DDoS1 Tbps
- DeployInstant
Under the hoodPerformance is a discipline,
Performance is a discipline,
not a sticker.
Every byte, every hop, every cycle accounted for. Here's the work behind the spec sheet.
01 · NETWORK
Unmetered traffic on our own AS60982.
Direct peering with 480+ networks via DE-CIX, AMS-IX, and LINX. We carry your traffic on our own backbone end-to-end — no transit reseller in the middle.
- Backbone400 Gbps DWDM ring
- Peers482 ASNs · 41 IXs
- IPv6Native, dual-stack default
- AnycastFree, on every plan
02 · STORAGE
All-flash. No spinning rust.
Enterprise SATA SSDs in checksummed ZFS pools across the VPS fleet, NVMe on dedicated bare metal. We set no IOPS ceiling and no CPU-percentage throttle on any VPS shape — the disk goes as fast as the pool goes.
- VPS fleet6× SATA SSD · ZFS
- DedicatedUp to 24× NVMe
- IOPS limitNone set
- CPU throttleNone set
03 · PROTECTION
DDoS scrubbing at 1 Tbps, included.
Traffic is filtered upstream of your server, on the same fiber it arrived on. Layer 3 through 7. UDP floods, SYN, slowloris, application-layer — all of it.
- Capacity1 Tbps scrubbing
- LayersL3 · L4 · L7
- Mitigation< 8 s detection
- Cost€0 — included
PricingPricing as simple
Pricing as simple
as your invoice should be.
Hourly billing. No egress fees on the first 10 TB.
Short-lived VPS
€0.0056/ hr
VPS I KVM billed by the hour. Prototypes, CI runners, burst workloads — destroy it and the meter stops.
- 1 dedicated vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 20 GB SSD
- Unmetered · 100 Mbps
- Free DDoS · 1 free IPv4 + IPv6 · instant deploy
Recommended
Monthly VPS
€4.00/ mo
The same VPS I KVM shape at a fixed monthly price. Six shapes scale it to 8 vCPU and 32 GB.
- 1 dedicated vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 20 GB SSD
- Unmetered · 100 Mbps
- Free DDoS · 1 free IPv4 + IPv6 · instant deploy
Dedicated
€209/ mo
Dual Xeon E5-2630 v4, single-tenant. The line-up scales to 256 cores and 1 TB of RAM.
- 16 cores / 32 threads
- 128 GB DDR4 ECC
- 6× SSD bays
- 1 Gbps unmetered
- Free DDoS · IPv6 · instant deploy
24 more configurations on the full pricing page. Custom builds available — talk to us.
Network
European hosting across 12 POPs.
Premium European facilities, redundant fiber, anycast IPv4/IPv6.
Customers
Notes from the operators.
Selected operators running workloads on our network.
Quotes from production customers. Names withheld at customer request — provenance verified by support contracts on file.
"240 game servers migrated in one weekend. Zero downtime, zero surprise line items. Engineers stayed on chat the whole window."
GS
"Pricing is the pricing. No call for a quote, no committed-spend tiers. Month-one bill landed 47% under our previous provider."
SA
"The kind of support that feels like a peer, not a tier-1 script reader. They know the network because they run the network."
ST
From the NOC
Engineering notes, fresh from on-call.
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Read postReference
Things people ask us.
Common questions, with answers.
Q.01
How fast can my server be deployed?
VPS instances are provisioned in under 60 seconds after payment confirmation. Dedicated servers are typically deployed within one hour, with full OS install and network configuration applied automatically.
Q.02
How does hourly VPS billing work on NODED.CLOUD?
Hourly metering — a started hour is billed as a full hour — invoiced at the end of the month, and capped at 720 hours. Leave a server up all month and it bills the cap rather than all 730 hours, within a cent or two of the monthly price. The cap is worked out from your own hourly rate, so a datacentre surcharge is capped too. Cancel anytime, no commitment. Starting tier is €0.0056/hr.
Q.03
What's the difference between NODED.CLOUD VPS and dedicated servers?
VPS uses a shared KVM hypervisor with hourly billing from €0.0056/hr. Dedicated is single-tenant bare metal with 16–256 cores, custom configs, and monthly pricing from €209/mo.
Q.04
What datacenter locations do you offer?
We operate in 12 datacenter cities — eleven across Europe plus Ashburn in the US — including Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris and Bucharest. VPS and streaming VPS ship from five of them: Romania, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. The remaining sites carry dedicated servers.
Q.05
Is DDoS protection included?
Yes — 1 Tbps DDoS mitigation is included free with every server.
Q.06
Does a VPS include an IP address?
Yes — every VPS ships with one dedicated static IPv4 and native IPv6, both free and included in the price. Extra IPv4 addresses are available on request, and you can bring your own space via BYOIP.
Q.07
What is the uptime SLA?
99.9% network and power SLA.
Q.08
What hardware do you use?
All-flash storage everywhere: enterprise SATA SSDs in ZFS pools across the VPS fleet, NVMe on dedicated bare metal. Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC CPUs on dedicated.
Q.09
What makes your streaming servers different?
Streaming shapes are the only ones we do not rate-limit — no per-VM bandwidth ceiling at all, with unmetered traffic and DDoS protection included, in five EU countries. Specialized configurations support live streaming, transcoding, and on-demand media delivery.
Q.10
Do you support streaming applications?
Our infrastructure is configured for popular streaming software including OBS, FFmpeg, RTMP servers, and HLS delivery. Optimized network routing and setup assistance are provided as standard.
Q.11
Can I run a game server with under 5 ms latency in Europe?
Yes. Anycast routing places players on the nearest EU POP, delivering sub-5 ms latency to most of the EU population from €2.49/mo.
Q.12
What is NODED.CLOUD's ASN and routing policy?
AS60982. Full layer-2 available. BGP sessions on request. /29 or /28 IPv4 allocations, native dual-stack IPv6, anycast routing across our EU POPs.
Q.13
Does NODED.CLOUD peer at DE-CIX, AMS-IX, and LINX?
Yes. AS60982 peers at DE-CIX, AMS-IX, LINX LON1, InterLAN, NL-ix, Peering.cz, DataIX, GlobalIX, ERA-IX, NIX.CZ, NIX.SK, INTERIX, 1-IX, VIX Vienna, and Equinix Ashburn.
Q.14
What payment methods do you accept?
We accept credit and debit cards, PayPal, cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other major coins), and bank transfers. All payments are processed securely, and servers are deployed immediately upon payment confirmation.
Q.15
Is data residency guaranteed?
Yes. Pick a region and your data — including any images you capture, and metadata — stays inside it. We sign DPAs as standard, with EU-resident options for GDPR-sensitive workloads.