Layer7 ❯ Intel Xeon SP Gold Server VPS Germany FRA1
Layer7 is a small but dynamic company legally registered in Germany offering cloud services primarily from data centers in Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Paris. They own and operate their own server hardware in colocation at ISO/IEC 27001 certified data centers. The company has an excellent track record in regards to the reliability and uptime of their services, with exceptionally positive customer reviews left across hosting forums and specialized websites. Despite their small market share compared to big brand names like Hetzner or OVH, they are known among enthusiasts for offering some of the cheapest high-storage machines in the European Union and for their powerful AMD virtual servers with low neighbor contention and liberal Terms of Service.
VPS Description:
Overview: This Layer7 VPS in Frankfurt, Germany, runs on KVM virtualization and offers preconfigured Linux and Windows templates (with user-supplied license) and supports installations from custom ISO images. It has 4 shared Intel Xeon SP Gold cores, 24 GB RAM, and 120 GB NVMe storage, with a monthly bandwidth cap of 50 TB over a 1.0 Gbps port. Both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity are provided, rDNS is enabled, and port 25 is open by default.
Viable Use Cases: The VPS is well-suited for a range of technical workloads. It can host containerized environments and microservices clusters using Docker or Kubernetes, enabling deployment of scalable API endpoints or web applications. The 24 GB RAM supports in-memory caching systems such as Redis and allows for running a large relational database in a production or testing environment. Fast NVMe storage provides low-latency I/O for logging systems (for instance, an ELK stack) or session management, while the setup also supports reverse proxy and load balancing using HAProxy or Nginx. It can also serve as a Git server or as a CI/CD node for continuous integration.
Critical Considerations: The shared CPU cores may lead to low performance during sustained high load, and a Fair Use Policy is enforced to prevent abuse. The limited 120 GB capacity may require supplementary storage for data-heavy applications.
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The latest price was €7.07, collected on July 1.
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