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Quietly running infrastructure since 2010

The honest
VPS,
since 2010.

Full-root KVM slices from $2/mo, on a network we’ve been running ourselves for fourteen years. 1 Gbps unmetered. DDoS filter included. The price you see today is the price you’ll see in 2030.

$2/mo
Entry slice
14yrs
Same crew
99.99%
Uptime SLA
54sec
Median boot
RACK 07 · LUX01 · U-12 ONLINE
EPYC 7763 64Cload 0.04
PIGLET$2 · up
SLICE-1$3.50 · up
SLICE-4$15 · up
SLICE-8$30 · up
DDoS · 24/7filter armed
— a brief catalogue —
Section 01
Plans

Five slices.
One flat price list.

Hourly billing if you want it. Monthly billing if you don’t. Cancel from the panel without speaking to anyone. Same prices since 2010 — receipts on request.

Plan
vCPU
RAM
NVMe SSD
Monthly
PigletSide projects, jump hosts, DNS
1core
512MB
10GB
$2per month
Slice 1Mastodon-class, blogs, mail
1core
1GB
20GB
$3.50per month
Slice 4Production sites, CI runners
4cores
4GB
80GB
$15per month
Slice 8DBs, build farms, k3s nodes
8cores
8GB
160GB
$30per month
We have not raised prices since 2010. The two-dollar slice still costs two dollars. We have customers on plans we no longer technically sell — we don’t kick them off. Frantech engineering, on its policy
Section 02
System

Things that should
cost extra. They don’t.

The list is short on purpose. Most providers add a sub-product every quarter; most of those sub-products are accounting, not engineering.

— 01 / Defence

A DDoS shield that comes free.

Layer-3 / Layer-4 mitigation on every IP we issue. The same equipment we use to keep our own panel up — pointed at your slice — at no additional charge, ever, on any plan, including the Piglet.

— 02 / Bandwidth

One gigabit, unmetered.

1 Gbps in, 1 Gbps out, per IP. No bandwidth meter. Pull a Linux ISO every hour, mirror Debian, host a backup. We measured the link, not your packets.

— 03 / Virtualisation

Real KVM. Real root.

Your kernel, your iptables, your bad ideas. Real virtualization, not a container with a marketing layer on top. Bring your own ISO, run anything that runs on Linux.

— 04 / Provisioning

Boots in 54 seconds.

Median across all regions, last 30 days. We benchmark our own platform on the hour and post the graph. No spinners, no progress bars, no “will be ready in approximately 8 minutes.”

Section 03
Network

Four cities.
One quiet backbone.

Carrier-neutral facilities, direct peering with the eyeball networks your users actually live behind. No magical intercontinental hops to a datacenter that’s technically “in Europe.”

LUX01

Luxembourg

root.lu — Europe
8.4 ms  → DE / FR
NYC01

New York

Piscataway, NJ — US East
9 ms  → east coast
LAS01

Las Vegas

Switch LV1 — US West
14 ms  → west coast
MIA01

Miami

NAP of the Americas — FL
42 ms  → South America

So go on, spin one up.

It takes ninety seconds. It boots in fifty-four. You can destroy it from the panel without writing us a letter. Fourteen years and counting — we’re not going anywhere.