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A server in Dubai, for the people who are actually in Dubai.

All 10 plans deploy into our UAE region at the same price they cost anywhere else — from $13.90 a month. What is different here is who the machine is close to, and what we cannot offer alongside it.

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Dubai at night from above: the Burj Khalifa over lit towers and the light trails of Sheikh Zayed Road

Who this region is for

Pick Dubai for proximity, not for the flag on the page.

A region is only worth choosing when it puts the machine nearer to something that matters — your users, your integrations or your own working day.

A business whose customers are in the Gulf
Round-trip time is decided partly by distance, and Dubai is a great deal closer to Riyadh, Doha or Abu Dhabi than Frankfurt is. If most of your traffic originates in the GCC, this is the region to start in.
An application built for the UAE market
Payment integrations, delivery partners and government APIs that are themselves hosted in the region are one short hop away rather than a continent away.
A team that works UAE hours
Deployments, restores and console sessions happen over your working day rather than across a European night, and the server is not somewhere you have to think about the time in.
A second region that is not in Europe
If Frankfurt is already your primary, Dubai gives you a standby in a different jurisdiction and on a different set of routes, which is the point of a standby.

Test it rather than trust us. C1-2 bills at $0.019 an hour. Deploy one in Dubai and one in Frankfurt, run your own measurement from where your users are, and keep whichever wins. An afternoon of that costs less than a coffee and settles the question with your numbers instead of ours.

Available here

Every plan we sell deploys in Dubai.

Nothing is held back for Europe. The line-up, the images and the prices are identical — region is a placement choice, not a product tier.

Prices exclude tax, which is worked out at checkout from where you are and your tax number. Every plan here is self-managed: you get root, and the operating system is yours to patch.

Straight answers

Three things Dubai does not come with.

Every regional landing page on the internet lists what is available. These are the parts we would rather you heard from us than found out at checkout.

No .ae domains

.ae requires a registrar accredited by aeDA, and we are not one. That is a licensing fact, not a roadmap item. Register the .ae wherever you must and point it here — or use one of the extensions we do sell. The UAE domain guide covers both routes.

No bare metal in the UAE

Dedicated machines are built in Germany. If you want physically unshared hardware in this region, the closest we can honestly get is the Dedicated CPU line, where the cores are pinned to your instance and no other tenant can take them.

No published latency figures

We do not print a millisecond number for Dubai, or for any other region. We have not measured one from your users’ networks, and the figure you would care about is not one we can produce from ours. Hourly billing exists so you can measure it yourself.

Questions

About the Dubai region specifically.

Will a server in Dubai actually be faster for visitors in the UAE?
Usually, and for a boring reason: distance is one of the things that decides round-trip time, and Dubai is far closer to a user in the Emirates than Frankfurt or Amsterdam is. We do not publish millisecond figures, because latency depends on the visitor's network and route at least as much as on ours, and a number we measured from our own office would not tell you anything useful. Deploy the smallest plan by the hour, measure from where your users actually are, and destroy it if the result does not justify the move.
Can I register a .ae domain to go with it?
No. .ae is administered by aeDA and can only be sold by a UAE-accredited registrar, which we are not. We sell 21 other extensions, and .com, .io and .cloud are the ones UAE businesses on our books most often pair with a Dubai server. If a .ae is a requirement, register it with an aeDA-accredited registrar and point its nameservers here — the domain and the hosting do not have to live in the same place.
Do you have dedicated servers in Dubai?
Not today. The dedicated line-up is built in Germany only. In the UAE the honest options are the virtual platform — including the Dedicated CPU line, where cores are pinned to your machine and never shared with another tenant — or a dedicated machine in Europe with a Dubai instance in front of it.
Which data centre in Dubai is it?
We do not publish the facility for any region, here or in Europe. We buy capacity from suppliers, and naming their buildings would be publishing somebody else's commercial detail. If your procurement process requires a named facility, tell us before you order and we will say plainly whether we can satisfy it.
Does a Dubai server mean my data is held under UAE law?
The machine is physically in the UAE region, which is a fact about where the data sits at rest. What that means legally for your business is not something we can answer for you, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. If you have a contractual data residency requirement, send us the wording before you order rather than after.
Is the price different in Dubai?
No. Within a line, every plan costs the same in every region it runs in, so moving between regions is a decision about routing rather than about budget.

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