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 is hosted in Germany on KVM virtualization and provides Linux and Windows templates plus custom ISO installation. It is provisioned with 4 shared Intel Xeon SP Gold cores, 8 GB of RAM, and 1024 GB of HDD storage, with a monthly bandwidth allocation of 50 TB over a 1.0 Gbps port. Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 connectivity and rDNS are supported.
Potential Use Cases: The configuration is well-suited for medium-load web applications and API services. It can efficiently run a LAMP/LEMP stack using software such as Apache, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP, or host backend services built with frameworks like Express.js or Flask. The high monthly bandwidth enables applications with substantial data transfer, such as media streaming or file distribution, while the 1 TB HDD is appropriate for archival storage and less I/O-intensive databases. Additionally, it can be used to deploy caching solutions like Varnish or HAProxy in a content delivery architecture.
Critical Considerations: The shared nature of the CPU cores may result in inconsistent performance for compute-intensive tasks (e.g., large-scale code compilations). The 1 TB HDD, while offering ample capacity, provides lower I/O performance compared to NVMe storage, limiting its suitability for high-transaction databases or intensive logging operations. Furthermore, the 8 GB RAM might constrain deployments involving multiple containers or memory-demanding applications.
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The latest price was €6.99, collected on May 9.
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