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Europe Dedicated Servers — 4 countries, 5 cities, 59 plans

Bare-metal hosting across Germany (Falkenstein + Düsseldorf), France (Paris), Netherlands (Amsterdam) and the United Kingdom (London) — from $29/mo. Every plan: unlimited bandwidth on a dedicated 1 Gbps port, instant deployment, GDPR-aligned data residency. Pick by network reach, regulator fit, vendor preference, or workload — comparison and decision support is below, not just a list of cards.

4 countries · 5 cities 59 plans · from $29/mo Unlimited bandwidth GDPR-aligned Instant setup
4 countries 5 cities · all GDPR-aligned
$29 entry / mo No setup fee · cancel anytime · no minimum term
59 SKUs AMD Ryzen + EPYC · Intel Core + Xeon + Xeon W
DE-CIX · AMS-IX · LINX Adjacency to Europe's three largest internet exchanges

Pick your European location

Four countries, each with a distinct reason to exist on this menu. The card below each country tells you what it does better than the other three. Click through for the full plan list, JSON-LD product schema and country-specific FAQ.

Falkenstein + Düsseldorf skyline icon

Germany Germany flag

Falkenstein + Düsseldorf

The strict-residency choice. AMD Ryzen + EPYC and Intel Core + Xeon side by side, EU privacy framework at its most enforceable.

Plans18
Price range$70–$483/mo
Internet exchangeDE-CIX-adjacent
ComplianceGDPR + BDSG + BSI C5
Best forEU-resident SaaS, vendor-choice compute, Kubernetes density, ECC at low cost
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France France flag

Paris

The lowest entry in Europe at $29/mo. South-EU latency leader and CNIL-aligned for French and EU enterprise customers.

Plans18
Price range$29–$256/mo
Internet exchangeFrance-IX
ComplianceGDPR + LIL
Best forBudget-sensitive deployments, South EU audience, CNIL-aligned French market
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Netherlands Netherlands flag

Amsterdam

AMS-IX adjacency means best peering in Europe by a wide margin. The choice for high-egress, CDN-back and bandwidth-hungry workloads.

Plans16
Price range$29–$295/mo
Internet exchangeAMS-IX
ComplianceGDPR + AVG
Best forStreaming / CDN-back, global egress, IX-rich transit, multi-tenant SaaS

Post-Brexit UK residency. LINX-adjacent for UK-customer workloads and the lowest transatlantic latency in Europe.

Plans7
Price range$94–$299/mo
Internet exchangeLINX
ComplianceUK GDPR + DPA 2018
Best forPost-Brexit UK residency, UK-only SaaS, FCA-adjacent fintech, transatlantic edge

At-a-glance country comparison

All four European locations on one row each, side by side. This is the matrix most teams use to decide — start with billing model and compliance, then narrow on price range and vendor mix.

Germany flagGermany France flagFrance Netherlands flagNetherlands United Kingdom flagUnited Kingdom
Plans on this fleet 18 18 16 7
Price range $70–$483/mo $29–$256/mo $29–$295/mo $94–$299/mo
Entry price $70/mo $29/mo $29/mo $94/mo
Cities Falkenstein + Düsseldorf Paris Amsterdam London
Internet exchange DE-CIX-adjacent France-IX AMS-IX LINX
Primary regulator BfDI · BSI CNIL Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens ICO
Compliance baseline GDPR + BDSG + BSI C5 GDPR + LIL GDPR + AVG UK GDPR + DPA 2018
Billing model Standard monthly Standard monthly Monthly + pro-rata tier Pro-rata first month
Vendor mix AMD + Intel Intel-heavy AMD + Intel Intel-heavy
Best for EU-resident SaaS, vendor-choice compute, Kubernetes density, ECC at low cost Budget-sensitive deployments, South EU audience, CNIL-aligned French market Streaming / CDN-back, global egress, IX-rich transit, multi-tenant SaaS Post-Brexit UK residency, UK-only SaaS, FCA-adjacent fintech, transatlantic edge

Pick by workload, not by marketing copy

For each common workload shape, the answer is usually one specific country. Below are the 10 picks that cover almost every real customer we've onboarded across the European fleet.

EU-resident SaaS with strict data residency

Customers in regulated industries demanding clean German residency. → Germany (Falkenstein or Düsseldorf). GDPR + BDSG + BSI C5 is the strictest enforceable framework on this menu.

Lowest possible EU entry price

Side projects, dev/staging, student work, learning bare metal, low-traffic sites. → France ($29/mo entry). Tied for the cheapest entry in the fleet alongside Netherlands.

High-egress streaming, CDN-back, mirrors

If you push 50+ TB/month of egress regularly. → Netherlands (Amsterdam, AMS-IX). Second-largest IX in the world means short paths to almost every EU eyeball network.

UK-only customer base or NHS / FCA workload

Post-Brexit UK contractual residency requirements. → United Kingdom (London). ICO + UK GDPR + DPA 2018 is the only fit when "UK" specifically is the requirement, not "EU".

Many-tenant Kubernetes / CI build farms

You need cores per dollar and density. → Germany (AMD EPYC 7502P at $266 — 32C/64T). Highest core-per-dollar density on the European menu.

Multi-tenant SaaS with global users

Customers all over the place, no single dominant audience. → Netherlands. Best transit egress to almost everywhere in the western hemisphere.

Database hosts with ECC and 192 GB+ RAM

PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB with heavy memory needs. → Germany (Intel Xeon W-2145, 192 GB DDR4 ECC, $210/mo). Highest RAM ceiling on this fleet outside custom builds.

Email marketing & bulk SMTP from EU IPs

French / Spanish / Italian / Portuguese audience, EU CAN-SPAM equivalence. → France. CNIL-aligned, clean French IP reputation, RBL-checked allocations.

Transatlantic edge / US East coast pairing

You serve both UK / EU and US East Coast users from one origin. → United Kingdom (London). Lowest transatlantic RTT from Europe — typically 65–75 ms to US East.

Single-thread heavy: game servers, latency-sensitive apps

Tick-rate-bound game servers (Minecraft, Rust, CS2), real-time match-making, financial-feed parsing. → Germany (Intel Core i9-9900K, $132/mo). 5 GHz boost, sub-30 ms ping across most of EU.

European network reach — by audience region

Approximate round-trip times measured from each location to major audience regions. Real-world numbers vary by carrier and time of day, but the relative ordering is stable. Lower is better.

Germany flagFrom Germany (Falkenstein / Düsseldorf)
  • Central & Eastern Europe~5–25 ms
  • Western Europe (FR, UK, NL)~7–25 ms
  • Southern Europe (ES, IT, GR)~25–45 ms
  • US East Coast (NYC, ASH)~85–95 ms
  • US West Coast (LAX, SFO)~155–170 ms
  • India (Mumbai)~115–130 ms
France flagFrom France (Paris)
  • Western Europe (DE, UK, NL)~6–18 ms
  • Southern Europe (ES, IT, PT)~15–35 ms
  • North & West Africa~30–55 ms
  • US East Coast~75–90 ms
  • US West Coast~145–165 ms
  • India (Mumbai)~120–140 ms
Netherlands flagFrom Netherlands (Amsterdam)
  • Western Europe (DE, UK, FR, BE)~4–18 ms
  • Scandinavia (SE, NO, DK)~12–28 ms
  • Southern Europe~25–45 ms
  • US East Coast~80–90 ms
  • US West Coast~150–165 ms
  • Singapore~165–180 ms
UK flagFrom United Kingdom (London)
  • United Kingdom & Ireland~3–18 ms
  • Western Europe~7–25 ms
  • US East Coast (NYC, ASH)~65–75 ms
  • US West Coast~135–150 ms
  • Middle East (Dubai)~110–130 ms
  • India (Mumbai)~115–130 ms

European regulatory landscape — side by side

All four countries share the EU GDPR baseline (UK retained it post-Brexit), but the regulator you deal with, the audit frameworks available, and the breach-notification window differ. Pick the country whose regulator matches your compliance program — and request our Auftragsverarbeitung / Data Processing Addendum at onboarding.

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Germany
Regulator
BfDI (federal) + state DPAs
Primary law
EU GDPR + BDSG (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz)
Audit framework
BSI C5 (Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue) baseline
DPA agreement
Auftragsverarbeitung on request
Notification window
72 hours to regulator
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France
Regulator
CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés)
Primary law
EU GDPR + Loi Informatique et Libertés
Audit framework
SecNumCloud-aligned operations available
DPA agreement
French DPA on request
Notification window
72 hours to CNIL
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Netherlands
Regulator
Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP)
Primary law
EU GDPR + AVG (Uitvoeringswet AVG)
Audit framework
ISO 27001-aligned facility
DPA agreement
Verwerkersovereenkomst on request
Notification window
72 hours to AP
United Kingdom flag
United Kingdom
Regulator
ICO (Information Commissioner's Office)
Primary law
UK GDPR + Data Protection Act 2018
Audit framework
UK-Cyber Essentials Plus baseline available
DPA agreement
UK DPA on request
Notification window
72 hours to ICO

Multi-region failover patterns

Three patterns we see most often when a customer needs failover or active-active across European regions. Each pair below balances regulatory diversity, latency, and peering richness differently — pick the one that matches your audience and recovery objectives.

DE+NL
DE ↔ NL · ~6–12 ms RTT

Strict residency primary in Düsseldorf or Falkenstein, AMS-IX-rich standby in Amsterdam. The most-used pairing on the fleet — covers GDPR-strict workloads while giving you the world's second-largest IX as a failover path.

FR+DE
FR ↔ DE · ~10–15 ms RTT

Schengen-wide reach with regulator diversity (CNIL + BfDI). Good for organisations whose audit programs want two different national regulators in scope, or for South-EU + DACH audience coverage on a single backend.

UK+NL
UK ↔ NL · ~7–10 ms RTT

Post-Brexit UK residency for UK customers + AMS-IX egress for everyone else. The classic pattern when contracts require UK residency but your CDN-back or mirror traffic benefits from Amsterdam peering.

European fleet — frequently asked questions

Hub-level questions only — anything country-specific (data centre details, individual SKUs, country-specific billing quirks) is answered on the matching country page.

Short version: Germany for strict EU data residency and vendor-choice compute (AMD + Intel at every price point, $70–$483, 18 plans, GDPR + BDSG + BSI C5). France for the lowest entry price in Europe ($29/mo) and CNIL-aligned French market reach. Netherlands for the best peering in Europe via AMS-IX — high-egress streaming, CDN-back, and global transit workloads. United Kingdom for post-Brexit UK residency, FCA-adjacent fintech, and lowest transatlantic latency from Europe. If you have no constraint, default to Germany or Netherlands — they cover 90% of workloads cleanly.

Yes — and it's a common pattern. The two most-used pairings on this fleet are Germany + Netherlands (DACH-strict residency with AMS-IX-rich failover, ~12 ms apart) and France + Germany (Schengen-wide reach with diverse regulatory footing). Public IP space, IPMI-KVM, and OS reinstalls are independent per server, so a single account can hold a multi-region active-passive or active-active deployment. Cross-region private VLANs and dedicated cross-connects are available on request.

Rough RTTs measured from inside the network: Falkenstein ↔ Amsterdam ~12 ms, Amsterdam ↔ Paris ~10 ms, Paris ↔ London ~7 ms, Düsseldorf ↔ Amsterdam ~6 ms, Düsseldorf ↔ Paris ~12 ms, London ↔ Falkenstein ~25 ms. Numbers vary by carrier path and time of day. For latency-critical multi-region work (HA database quorum, real-time game state sync), pick adjacent pairs like Düsseldorf + Amsterdam or Paris + London.

Operationally very similar — UK GDPR is essentially the EU GDPR text retained in UK law after Brexit, enforced by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under the Data Protection Act 2018 instead of by national EU regulators. Two practical implications: (1) data transfers from the EU to the UK rely on the EU's adequacy decision for the UK (currently in force, reviewed periodically); (2) if your contracts require EU data residency specifically, the UK no longer counts — pick Germany, France or Netherlands. If your contracts require UK data residency (NHS, UK government supplier obligations, some FCA scenarios), the UK is the only fit on this menu.

One account, one invoice, one currency (USD by default; EUR or GBP on request). Each server line item shows its location and billing model — most plans are flat monthly, the UK line and the Netherlands instant-setup tab use WHMCS-style pro-rata first-month billing, and a couple of high-end German EPYC plans carry a one-time setup fee. Renewal dates can be aligned across regions on request so you receive a single consolidated bill. No separate contracts, no per-region minimums, no setup fees on the default tier.

Every plan on every European location ships with truly unmetered traffic on a dedicated 1 Gbps port under standard fair-use, with a small set of Netherlands and Frankfurt-side SKUs offering a capped-but-higher-burst tier when that fits the workload better. There is no per-region surcharge for outbound traffic. If you regularly push 100 TB+/month of egress, Netherlands AMS-IX-adjacent plans typically deliver the best real-world throughput because of the IX density, even though the headline 1 Gbps line speed is identical.

Netherlands (Amsterdam) — and it isn't close. AMS-IX is the second-largest internet exchange in the world by traffic and routes are short to almost every EU eyeball network and most US East Coast ones. Falkenstein and Düsseldorf are also strong (DE-CIX in Frankfurt is the world's largest IX, and Düsseldorf is one hop away), so Germany is a close second. Paris and London are perfectly fine but generally one extra hop away from the densest peering fabric.

We can't physically relocate a chassis — what we do instead is provision a like-for-like configuration in the new country, give you both servers simultaneously for the migration window, and cancel the old one once you cut over. You're billed only for the overlap days you actually use. The IPMI-KVM and OS reinstall tooling is identical across all European locations, so the migration is mostly an rsync, a DNS swap, and a smoke test.

Yes — at the regulator and audit level. Germany operates under BfDI + BSI C5 (Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue). France is regulated by CNIL with strict notification obligations. Netherlands operates under the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens enforcing AVG (the Dutch GDPR implementation). UK operates under the ICO enforcing UK GDPR + Data Protection Act 2018. All four countries share the same EU GDPR baseline (UK retained it post-Brexit), but the regulator you deal with, the breach-notification window, and the available auditor certifications differ. Auftragsverarbeitung (DE), Data Processing Addendum (UK / NL / FR equivalents) signed on request.

Identical across all four countries: Visa / Mastercard / American Express, PayPal, Skrill, Perfect Money, Paytm (India), bank wire (SEPA-EUR or SWIFT-USD), and 50+ cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT (TRC20/ERC20), Litecoin, Monero and Solana. Invoices issued in USD by default; EUR for Germany / France / Netherlands, GBP for the UK, on request at account setup.

European plans are unmanaged by default — you own the OS, the patching cycle, and the application stack. The hardware, the network path, the RAID controller, and basic OS reinstalls are covered under standard support at no charge in all four countries. For hands-on day-2 operations (hardening, monitoring set-up, migrations, fire-fighting), attach Managed Engineering Hours from the client area in 30-minute blocks — no retainer, no monthly commitment.

Most plans deploy within 1–4 hours of payment confirmation across all four countries. Stock-on-hand SKUs (the bulk of the German and Dutch menu) ship faster — usually inside 60 minutes — because the chassis are pre-racked and pre-cabled. Bespoke configurations (large NVMe pools, custom RAID, additional IPv4 blocks) can take up to 24 hours pending RIPE/RIPE-NCC approval where applicable. Setup time does not vary meaningfully by country.

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