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Frankfurt: the region we deploy to when you do not tell us otherwise.

Central Europe, an EU member state, and the default location on every plan in the catalogue — from $7.90 a month. Germany is also one of the two countries where we build dedicated machines, so the whole range is available under one account here.

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Frankfurt's banking-district skyline across the river Main at dusk

Who this region is for

The default is a default for a reason.

Frankfurt is rarely the perfect region for anyone and frequently the best available one for everyone — which is exactly what a default should be.

An audience spread across Europe
Frankfurt sits roughly in the middle of the continent, which makes it the least bad single choice when your users are in Warsaw, Milan and Manchester at the same time. One region is cheaper to run than three.
Data that has to stay in the EU
Germany is an EU member state, so a server here keeps the data at rest inside the Union. That settles the location question; it does not, on its own, settle your compliance obligations.
German-language businesses
Customers, invoices and, often, procurement expectations in one country. A German region is the answer to the question a German buyer asks first.
A primary you can pair with a standby
Frankfurt as the primary and Amsterdam or Dubai as the standby gives you two regions on different routes without adding a second provider to the invoice.

EU data residency

What a German region does and does not settle.

This is the reason most people arrive on this page, so it deserves a straight answer rather than a compliance badge.

What it does settle

Your data at rest sits on a machine in Germany, inside the EU. Snapshots you take stay in the region you took them in, and traffic between your own servers inside the region never leaves it. If your requirement is “the disk must be in the EU”, a Frankfurt instance meets it.

What it does not settle

Where your backups go if you copy them elsewhere, who your other processors are, what your application sends to a third-party API, and every obligation that has nothing to do with geography. A region is one input to compliance, not a certificate of it.

What we will not tell you

The name of the facility. We buy capacity from suppliers and do not publish their buildings for any region. If a named site or a signed data processing agreement is part of your procurement, raise it with support before you order and you will get a yes or a no, not a maybe.

Available here

The full catalogue, at catalogue prices.

The three classic lines deploy in Frankfurt, and so do two of the GPU sizes — the ones whose card our supplier holds here. Region changes where the machine is, never what it costs or what it is made of.

Also in Germany

Germany is also where we build metal.

Our dedicated line-up is built in Germany only — 4 machines, from $133.90 a month plus a one-off $49.00.

Two products, not one region. Metal is sold at country level and we are not told which city a build lands in, so a German dedicated server is not necessarily in the same place as your Frankfurt instance, and the two cannot share private networking. Treat them as separate systems that happen to be in the same country, and size the transfer allowance on the VPS accordingly.

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Questions

About the Frankfurt region specifically.

Is Frankfurt the default region?
Yes. Every cloud VPS in our catalogue records Frankfurt as its default location, so if you deploy without thinking about placement, this is where the server lands. That is a sensible default for a European customer base and a poor one if your users are in Singapore — the configurator lets you change it on the way through, and the price does not move when you do.
Does hosting in Germany make me GDPR compliant?
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Hosting in Germany means the data at rest is in an EU member state, which removes the international-transfer question for that copy of the data. It says nothing about your lawful basis, your retention policy, your processors, your backups, or the analytics script on your front page. It is one box of several, and it is the only one a hosting region can tick.
Can a Frankfurt VPS talk privately to a dedicated server in Germany?
No. Private networking on the virtual platform works between your own instances inside one region, and traffic on it does not count against your allowance. A dedicated server is a separate product sold at country level — we are not even told which city a build lands in — so traffic between the two crosses the public internet, and the outbound side of it counts against the VPS transfer allowance. Plan for that before you split a system across the two products.
What speed is the network port?
We do not publish an uplink figure for the virtual platform, because it is not specified to us in a form we would be willing to print as a promise. What we can state is the transfer allowance on each plan, that inbound traffic is free, and that traffic between your own servers inside a region is not counted at all. The dedicated servers are different: those are a stated 1 Gbit, unmetered.
Do you peer at DE-CIX?
Frankfurt is where DE-CIX operates and where a very large share of European networks meet — that is a fact about the city, not a claim about our uplink. We buy capacity from suppliers and we do not publish who they peer with, so we are not going to imply a peering relationship as though it were ours. Judge the region by measuring from your users, not by the exchange in the postcode.
Is anything cheaper or more expensive in Frankfurt?
No. Within a line, every plan costs the same in every region it runs in. There is no European discount and no Middle East surcharge.

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