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VPS AmsterdamNetherlands

AMS-IX and a permissive but well-policed regulatory climate. The second site we ever built.

Live since
2014
Median RTT
2 ms
Edge capacity
1.28 Tbit/s
from
€1.90/mo
FacilityAll systems operational
Facility
AMS1 — Science Park
Certification
Tier IV
Carriers
Arelion, Cogent, Lumen, NTT, Telia
Peering
AMS-IX, NL-ix, SpeedIX
Test IP
185.42.21.10
Stock
In stock
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Amsterdam · AMS1

Why Amsterdam?

AMS1 is in Science Park, on the campus in the east of the city where the Dutch academic network turned into AMS-IX. It came up six weeks after Frankfurt and at 1,280 Gbit/s it is the only room in the fleet within reach of Frankfurt's size. It has also taken more of our policy arguments than any other site, and the answers we settled on here tended to become the answers everywhere.

What it reaches

Fifty-eight sessions across AMS-IX, NL-ix and SpeedIX, which between them hold the Dutch and Belgian eyeball networks and a long tail of German and regional European ones. Nordic traffic is answered better from Stockholm or Helsinki than from here. NTT is on the transit list here and nowhere else in Europe for us, which is what makes the eastbound path toward Asia behave.

The trade-off

The largest attack we have absorbed landed here — 1.9 Tbit/s in November 2025, six minutes long, forty seconds of degradation for the target and none for its neighbours. Amsterdam attracts that traffic. Plan for it.

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Fleet

Plans available in Amsterdam

NVMe KVM instances in Amsterdam, from €1.90 a month on a twelve-month term. Email address only, crypto accepted, live in under a minute.

TERM

Longer term, lower monthly rate

PART EVPS-NANOREV. D
I

Nano

€1.90/mo

billed €22.80 oncesave 21% vs 6-month

vCPU
1 × EPYC
Memory
2 GB DDR5
NVMe storage
25 GB NVMe
Traffic
2 TB
Port
1 Gbit/s
PART EVPS-MICROREV. D
II

Micro

€3.10/mo

billed €37.20 oncesave 21% vs 6-month

vCPU
2 × EPYC
Memory
4 GB DDR5
NVMe storage
50 GB NVMe
Traffic
4 TB
Port
1 Gbit/s
PART EVPS-BASEMost chosen
III

Base

€5.50/mo

billed €66.00 oncesave 20% vs 6-month

vCPU
4 × EPYC
Memory
8 GB DDR5
NVMe storage
100 GB NVMe
Traffic
8 TB
Port
2.5 Gbit/s
PART EVPS-WORKREV. D
IV

Work

€10.40/mo

billed €124.80 oncesave 19% vs 6-month

vCPU
6 × EPYC
Memory
16 GB DDR5
NVMe storage
200 GB NVMe
Traffic
12 TB
Port
2.5 Gbit/s
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Edge latency

Latency from Amsterdam

Modelled from great-circle distance between our own sites — not a probe measurement.

Düsseldorf, DE4 ms
Roubaix, FR7 ms
London, GB6 ms
Frankfurt, DE7 ms
Paris, FR6 ms
Manchester, GB7 ms
Zurich, CH8 ms
Dublin, IE9 ms

Hardware standard

cpu
AMD EPYC 9354P — Genoa, Zen 4, 3.25 GHz base / 3.80 GHz boost
memory
384 GB DDR5-4800 ECC registered per host
storage
Samsung PM9A3 Gen4 NVMe, RAID-10, hot spare per chassis
network
Dual 25 GbE to separate leaf switches, LACP
power
A+B feeds, N+1 UPS, on-site diesel with 72 h fuel
hypervisor
KVM on Linux 6.12 LTS, nested virtualisation enabled
oversubscription
3:1 on fair-share plans, 1:1 on dedicated-core plans

Test file

185.42.21.10

Open. We peer with anyone at any exchange where we are both present.

Looking glass
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Questions

Questions about hosting in Netherlands

01Can I run a Tor exit node in Amsterdam?
Yes. Amsterdam is one of four sites where exits are permitted, alongside Reykjavík, Chișinău and Bucharest. We ask for the standard reduced exit policy and a working abuse contact on the relay. Elsewhere the answer is no, because those upstreams will not tolerate it and we would rather say so than let your server vanish.
02Do Dutch takedown complaints get my instance pulled?
Not on receipt. A complaint is forwarded to you with its evidence and you have 24 hours to answer. Active outbound attacks and material involving minors are cut immediately, everywhere, without that clock. What we will not do is suspend on an unverified report, and we do not hand over data without an order valid under Dutch law.
03How many IP addresses do I get?
One dedicated IPv4 and a routed /64 of IPv6 with every plan. Up to eight extra IPv4 addresses can be added at €1.20 each per month, assigned from the region's own prefix so geolocation stays consistent. A routed /48 of IPv6 is €2 a month if you are running your own network behind us.
04Is DDoS protection included?
Yes, on every plan, with no separate charge and no traffic threshold. Volumetric attacks are absorbed by hardware scrubbers at the edge and mitigation engages in under four seconds. The advanced tier adds layer-7 scrubbing and rules you write yourself, which matters for game servers and public APIs but not for much else.
05Is port 25 open? Can I run a mail server?
Port 25 is closed by default on new instances and opened on request — send a ticket saying what you are sending and to roughly how many recipients. It usually takes under an hour. Custom reverse DNS on both v4 and v6 is self-service from the console, which is the part that actually determines whether your mail lands.
06Which region should I pick?
The one closest to your users, not to you. Every location costs the same, so there is no reason to compromise. The locations page lists median round trip from residential probes in each metro, and there is a live latency test on every site page. If you are unsure, Frankfurt and Amsterdam reach the most people in the fewest milliseconds.
07Can I move an existing server to another country?
You can deploy a replacement in the new region and migrate, and support will run the transfer for you at no charge if you ask. What we cannot do is move an instance between regions in place — the disk stays where the metal is, and the IP address belongs to that region's prefix.

Payment from Netherlands

No local bank account, card or tax identifier is needed. Any of 42 crypto assets works from anywhere, including from Netherlands.