Frankfurt & Munich · KVM · DDoS mitigation
German Virtual Servers on the Frankfurt and Munich Route
Germany is a Western European country of forests, rivers, mountain ranges and North Sea coastline, with Berlin as a capital known across the world. It is also Europe's largest economy and one of its most important internet locations: Frankfurt is home to one of the biggest internet exchange points on the planet, and networks from across Europe and beyond meet there to exchange traffic.
If you plan to work in the European market, analyze how European search results behave or run services for German-speaking users, Germany is among the most suitable, advanced and secure places to start. A VPS server in Germany puts your project inside that ecosystem at a fraction of the cost of a physical server.
Our German virtualization is built on carefully selected hardware with generous memory, SSD, NVMe and HDD capacity, unlimited traffic, DDoS mitigation and a secure hosting environment, including a Tier III data center in Bavaria. Prices stay low because every instance is unmanaged and we keep our margins thin.
We do not compromise on service quality to reach those prices. New hardware, strong ISPs as the internet backbone and well-run data centers give you a platform you can rely on, with a low probability of downtime. The sections below explain how our Frankfurt and Munich plans differ and which projects suit each.
Why Germany Is a Strong VPS Location for Europe
Hosting in Germany puts your server at the center of the European network. Frankfurt's role as a major internet exchange point means traffic from many carriers and content networks converges there, so round trips to users across the continent are short. Munich adds a second, well-connected hub in the south, close to Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy and the Czech Republic.
Germany's population of more than 80 million people is one of the largest consumer markets in Europe, and German-speaking audiences extend into Austria and Switzerland. Businesses that sell there benefit from a server that responds quickly to local visitors and an IP address that looks local to search engines and regional services.
There is also the matter of trust. German businesses, and many European customers in general, prefer providers that keep data within the European Union. A German VPS lets you host data inside the country while you remain in control of how it is processed, encrypted and backed up. That matters for agencies, SaaS companies and professional firms whose clients ask where their information lives, and it is one reason Germany consistently ranks among the most popular hosting destinations in the world.
DE DC I Frankfurt: NVMe Plans with ECC Memory
DE DC I Frankfurt is our core Germany VPS range and our cheapest branded line. Every plan uses NVMe storage, ECC memory, unlimited bandwidth and a shared 1 Gbps port. NVMe dramatically reduces storage latency, which translates directly into faster page generation, quicker database queries and shorter build times.
The entry plan offers 2 vCores, 2 GB RAM and 40 GB NVMe on Linux for $18 a month. At $29 you get 4 GB RAM and 60 GB, with Windows available at the same price. The 4-vCore plans with 6 GB and 8 GB RAM, at $43 and $67, cover the majority of business websites, online shops and API servers. Moving up, 6 vCores with 10 GB cost $86, 8 vCores with 12 GB cost $124 and 10 vCores with 14 GB cost $152.
For the largest workloads, 16 vCores with 16 GB RAM cost $179, 20 vCores with 24 GB cost $229, and the flagship 24-vCore server with 32 GB ECC RAM and 410 GB NVMe costs $268. These are well suited to busy e-commerce platforms, analytics, CI runners, multiplayer game servers and agencies consolidating many client sites in Frankfurt.
DE DC II Munich: Multi-Terabyte SSD and NVMe Storage
DE DC II Munich is built around storage capacity, and it offers more disk per dollar than almost anything else in our European range. Every plan includes unlimited transfer, supports both Linux and Windows, and comes with a dedicated network speed between 200 Mbit/s and 1,000 Mbit/s depending on size.
The SSD series is aimed at bulk data. For $26 you get 2 cores, 4 GB RAM and 400 GB SSD on a 200 Mbit/s port. At $38 the plan doubles to 4 cores, 8 GB and 800 GB on 400 Mbit/s. At $56 you get 6 cores, 16 GB and 1,600 GB on 600 Mbit/s, and at $79 a Munich server offers 8 cores, 32 GB RAM and 3,200 GB SSD on a 1,000 Mbit/s port. That is ideal for backup repositories, media libraries, Nextcloud instances and large mail archives.
The NVMe series trades capacity for speed and memory. Plans run from 4 cores, 8 GB RAM and 50 GB NVMe at $25, through 6 cores with 16 GB and 100 GB at $39 and 8 cores with 30 GB and 200 GB at $65, to 10 cores with 60 GB RAM and 400 GB NVMe on a 1,000 Mbit/s port for $89. That top plan offers an exceptional amount of memory for in-memory databases, caching layers and heavy Java or Elasticsearch workloads.
DE DC III Frankfurt: High Core Counts for RDP and SSH
DE DC III Frankfurt is designed for compute and remote access. Each plan includes 50 GB of storage and bandwidth listed from 1,000 GB to unlimited depending on size, and the line's promise is simple: connect over RDP or SSH for the same cost.
The entry plan offers 1 core and 2 GB RAM on Linux for $24.99. From 2 cores and 4 GB at $39.99 upward, both Linux and Windows are available. The 4-core, 8 GB plan costs $69.99, the 8-core, 16 GB plan costs $99.99 and the largest plan pairs 16 cores with 32 GB RAM for $199.99.
Because storage is fixed and modest, these plans shine where processing matters more than disk: Windows remote desktops for teams, trading terminals, automation and scraping workers, game servers, rendering or encoding queues and application servers that keep their data elsewhere. If you want a powerful German workstation reachable from anywhere, DE DC III is a cost-effective way to get one.
DDoS Mitigation Included on Every Germany VPS
Every Germany plan includes DDoS mitigation as a default feature at no additional charge. Malicious traffic floods are filtered at the network level so that most attacks are absorbed without interrupting your services. For game servers, online shops and public APIs, which are frequent targets, that protection is a significant part of the value.
No mitigation system can promise to repel everything. Extremely large attacks may still exceed what the filtering can absorb, and we are upfront about that. For most projects, though, the included protection is enough to keep common volumetric attacks from taking a German VPS offline.
Security does not stop at the network edge. Our switches are configured to resist intrusion, and every server is isolated by KVM so other tenants cannot reach your memory or storage. Inside the VM, you are responsible for software updates, firewall rules and access control. Use SSH keys or strong Administrator passwords, close unused ports and keep your applications patched, and your Frankfurt or Munich server will be well protected on both levels.
Operating Systems and Licensing on Germany VMs
Germany-based VPS hosting is flexible, and that includes your choice of operating system. Supported options include Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu and custom operating systems. Linux instances come with root access; Windows instances come with the Administrator account over RDP.
On every plan that supports both, the table price is the same for Linux and Windows. If your project requires a specific licensed Windows Server edition, it is available as a paid add-on, and you can also add a control panel that lets you and your customers manage email, databases, IIS, files and more from a browser.
Operating-system reinstalls and reboots are available on demand, so you can change distribution, rebuild a test environment or recover from a misconfiguration without a long wait. That makes a German VPS a practical base for scripting, Android and iOS app back ends, game software, e-commerce stores and content management systems, whichever stack you prefer.
If you are unsure which distribution to pick, Debian and Ubuntu are the safest defaults for most web stacks and control panels, while Windows Server 2019 is the natural choice for .NET applications, MSSQL and remote desktops. You can always reinstall later if your needs change.
Germany VPS Provisioning and Delivery Times
Delivery from our German locations is quick. A node ordered with a Linux operating system is usually installed and provisioned within 1 to 12 hours, while Windows virtual machines are typically ready within 2 to 12 hours because of the extra setup the operating system requires. Most customers can expect their credentials within a few hours of ordering.
Your welcome details include the server's IP address and login credentials. We recommend changing the password on first login, setting up SSH keys or a stronger RDP policy, and taking a snapshot or backup once your base configuration is complete.
If you are planning a migration, order a little ahead of your cut-over date so you have time to copy data, test DNS changes and confirm that everything runs as expected on the new server. Keep the old host available until you are sure the German VPS is serving traffic correctly.
Once the server is live, our support team remains available for reboots, reinstalls and hardware issues. Because instances are unmanaged by default, software configuration is in your hands unless you add the management service.
Resizing Plans and Backups for German Servers
Our German VPS plans are standard virtual servers rather than cloud instances, so specifications cannot be changed once a machine is provisioned. If you need more cores, RAM or storage, you order the larger plan and migrate your data to it. For that reason it is worth choosing a plan with some headroom at the start.
Backups make that process painless. A backup storage add-on lets you store and restore your full configuration to the same machine or to an upgraded one at any time, protecting you against data loss as well as simplifying moves between plans. Additional IPv4 addresses are also available, which help when you need separate SSL certificates or want to protect mail from bouncing due to poor IP reputation on a single shared address.
Other add-ons include cPanel/WHM licenses, Plesk Obsidian and a management service for customers who prefer our administrators to handle installation and maintenance. All of them can be selected while you configure your order, or requested later during your subscription.
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