VPS hosting
VPS-8
VPS-8 is the heavy-duty tier — eight vCPU, sixteen gigabytes of error-correcting memory, two-hundred-forty gigabytes of NVMe storage, ten terabytes of monthly transfer, forty-gigabit DDoS shield. It is the tier at which the bandwidth allocation starts to matter independently of compute: a video-archive, a high-traffic exposé, a searchable corpus with image and PDF assets, a federated platform whose timeline is itself the workload.
$64 per month
- 8 vCPU (AMD EPYC)
- 16 GB DDR4 ECC
- 240 GB NVMe SSD
- 10 TB / month
Specification
- Processor
- 8 vCPU (AMD EPYC)
- Memory
- 16 GB DDR4 ECC
- Storage
- 240 GB NVMe SSD
- Bandwidth
- 10 TB / month
- IPv4 addresses
- 1
- IPv6
- yes
- Virtualization
- KVM
- Uplink
- 1 Gbps
- Uptime SLA
- 99.9%
- Operating systems
- Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky, Fedora, Whonix
Who this plan suits
An investigative archive with a corpus of tens of thousands of documents indexed for full-text search, a documentary team's video-archive serving published material to a steady readership, a high-traffic exposé site whose recently-published material draws sustained traffic spikes, a regional Mastodon instance whose local timeline aggregates into a meaningful federated load, a PeerTube node distributing published documentaries. The bandwidth allocation (ten terabytes a month) is the deciding factor at this tier — most VPS workloads are CPU-bound, this one is often transfer-bound.
It is undersized for a multi-publication consortium consolidating dozens of properties on one machine, for an archive that runs concurrent transcode pipelines, or for a workload where co-tenancy itself is part of the threat model. VPS-16 doubles compute and storage for projects that have outgrown VPS-8 without yet wanting to commit to dedicated hardware; DS Mid is the answer when the shared hypervisor itself becomes a concern.
Where this plan can be operated
VPS-8 deploys in Iceland or Switzerland. At ten terabytes a month, the bandwidth-cost-economics of the chosen jurisdiction become visible: Iceland's transit lanes route through Greenland and Ireland to mainland Europe and through Newfoundland to North America, and the per-gigabyte upstream cost is meaningful for a video-rich workload. Switzerland's transit is denser but subject to more legal proximity to EU adversaries; both jurisdictions sustain ten terabytes a month without throttling.
For a video-archive whose readership is broadly distributed, Iceland is the better answer because the operator-jurisdiction distance from common adversaries compounds across the long tail of removal requests that high-traffic content attracts — the IMMI framework and the absence of a DMCA-shaped notice-and-takedown obligation under Höfundalög are load-bearing here. For a research-team archive whose readership is concentrated in central Europe, Switzerland's revFADP regime is acceptable. The full comparative framing is in the dossier article; the practical choice is yours and is changeable by reprovisioning.
What the operator sees, and what it does not
The operator's mechanical view at VPS-8 is unchanged from the lower tiers: billing metadata, signup-IP, hostname, hypervisor counters, aggregate traffic. What VPS-8 changes operationally is what fits inside the customer's side of the boundary — a 240-gigabyte NVMe volume holds an indexed corpus of around 100,000 documents with thumbnails and OCR cache, or a documentary archive of a few hundred hours of mid-bitrate video. The compute allocation supports an Elasticsearch or Meilisearch instance over that corpus without the indexing pipeline starving the public-facing service.
What we cannot see remains the same set: encrypted-disk contents at rest, in-memory secrets, application-layer logs that you keep on the VM. The DDoS shield is operated upstream of your machine — we see attack traffic patterns and source distributions because we have to in order to filter them, but we do not retain that data beyond the operational window required to respond. Payment in Monero, Lightning, on-chain Bitcoin, or cash; for projects at this tier the cleanest financial surface is Monero, and for ones that prefer not to run a Monero wallet, cash by post.
Jurisdictions
The offering is available from the jurisdictions listed below. The choice between them is made at the order step; this section discloses what the choice is, so the reader knows before the form opens.
- Iceland Reykjavik
- Switzerland Zurich
Ordering this plan
The order step confirms the jurisdiction, the payment rail, and the contact detail before any service is provisioned. Questions about the plan or migration ahead of an order go through the contact form.