European Alternatives to phoenixNAP
Looking for a European alternative to phoenixNAP? phoenixNAP sells its Bare Metal Cloud and dedicated servers through phoenixNAP, LLC in Phoenix, Arizona, and its Master Services Agreement is governed by the law of the state of Arizona and the laws of the United States.
The site lists a data centre in Amsterdam, but the contracting party named in the agreement is the Arizona company. Buyers who want the contract, the invoice and the courts in the EU or the UK often compare it with European operators.
The twelve European providers below range from Dutch and Lithuanian specialists with servers live in hours, through German and French hosts with auction and hourly options, to a British dedicated server seller, all contracting from companies in the Netherlands, Lithuania, Germany, France, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom.
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12 European Alternatives to phoenixNAP
Worldstream
Dutch operator with its own data centres and servers live in two hours
Cherry Servers
Lithuanian bare metal with hourly billing and a twelve-minute average setup
Hostkey
Amsterdam provider with instant dedicated and GPU servers in several countries
Hetzner
German root servers and a refurbished server auction from three own sites
Scaleway
Hourly Elastic Metal servers plus monthly Dedibox rentals from Paris to Warsaw
OVHcloud
Server ranges from Kimsufi to High Grade with anti-DDoS on by default
Melbicom
Vilnius provider with stock servers in about twenty locations and 100G ports
Contabo
Munich provider renting AMD servers with no setup fee and fair-use unlimited traffic
Gcore
Luxembourg group renting dedicated servers in over twenty locations with DDoS filtering
STRATO
Berlin host with Linux and Windows dedicated servers kept inside the EU
IONOS
Montabaur company selling AMD, Intel, GPU and storage dedicated servers
Fasthosts
UK dedicated servers with unlimited traffic and a one-year minimum term
Key takeaways
- phoenixNAP sells its servers through phoenixNAP, LLC in Phoenix, Arizona, whose Master Services Agreement applies Arizona and US law, although Amsterdam is one of its six listed locations.
- The phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud page shows instances from $0.08 an hour and from $38.81 a month, all priced in US dollars, with Intel processors throughout the lists we read.
- Cherry Servers (Lithuania) lists dedicated servers from €0.084 an hour and Scaleway (France) lists Elastic Metal from €0.077 an hour, which is the nearest European match to phoenixNAP hourly billing.
- Worldstream and Melbicom both quote two-hour delivery for stock servers, and Worldstream signs under Dutch law with the district court of The Hague.
- Fasthosts is the only provider on the page that contracts under UK rather than EU rules, and its dedicated servers carry a minimum term of one year.
Why people leave phoenixNAP
phoenixNAP sells rented physical servers in two packages. Bare Metal Cloud is the API-driven one, with instance families for general purpose, compute, memory, database and AI work, and the dedicated servers page is the same hardware pitched to buyers who think in servers rather than instances. Its own pages describe provisioning "in as little as 60 seconds", more than 50 pre-configured server types and tooling for Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, Chef and Puppet.
The company behind the contract is phoenixNAP, LLC of Phoenix, Arizona. Its Master Services Agreement is governed by the law of the state of Arizona and the laws of the United States, even though the locations list includes Amsterdam next to Phoenix, Ashburn, Chicago, Seattle and Singapore. A rack in the Netherlands is a fact about where the metal stands. It does not tell you which company invoices you or which court hears a dispute.
People who look beyond phoenixNAP are rarely unhappy with the hardware. They want an invoice in euros from a company that answers to a European regulator, a data processing agreement under EU law and a contract they can enforce at home. Some want a cheaper monthly rent, some want larger network ports or physical servers delivered on a fixed clock, and a few want all of that from one supplier.
- The contract is American even when the rack is Dutch The Master Services Agreement names phoenixNAP, LLC in Phoenix and applies Arizona and US law. The Amsterdam location appears in the same list as the American sites, and we could not find a European group company that signs with customers who choose it. For a buyer who must show an auditor an EU counterparty and an EU court, that gap is the main reason to compare European operators.
- Prices and billing are in dollars The Bare Metal Cloud page quotes instances from $0.08 an hour and from $38.81 a month, and the monthly figures run up to $1,646.72 for the AI instances. A European customer pays those in dollars unless an invoice says otherwise, which brings exchange rate swings into a bill that is otherwise fixed. Worldstream, Hostkey and Hetzner price in euros, Fasthosts in pounds.
- Most of the footprint sits outside Europe Six locations are shown on the dedicated servers page: Phoenix, Ashburn, Chicago, Seattle, Amsterdam and Singapore. Four of them are in the United States. If your users, your staff and your auditors are in Europe, you rent most of your options in another time zone, and latency to European customers then depends on the single Dutch site.
- One processor family in the lists we read The instance lists on the bare metal page show Intel processors throughout, from an E3-1240v3 at the entry price up to dual Platinum 8452Y machines, plus Intel MAX 1100 GPUs in the AI family. A buyer who wants AMD EPYC or Ryzen machines has to look elsewhere, and several European operators on this page list those lines next to Xeon.
What you have to replace, not just match
Swapping the supplier is the easy part, because a physical server is a physical server.
What you are replacing is the way phoenixNAP lets you consume it: an API and a command line tool (pnapctl) that create and delete machines, infrastructure-as-code modules for Terraform and Ansible, a one-click Kubernetes deployment based on SUSE Rancher, and a private link to AWS and Google Cloud through Megaport Cloud Router. Check which of these your pipeline actually calls before you pick a European host.
Cherry Servers and Scaleway come closest to that model, with hourly billing and an API, and Cherry Servers adds block storage, floating IPs and a load balancer.
Worldstream, Fasthosts and Contabo are monthly rentals reached through a portal or a call to sales, which suits fixed workloads but not a build farm that appears and disappears each night. Hetzner sits in between, with the Robot API for its dedicated range. Decide first whether you need machines on demand or machines on contract.
Then list what sits around the server. phoenixNAP offers S3-compatible object storage and network file storage, a bandwidth allowance of 15 TB in the first deployment (5 TB in Singapore) and DDoS protection on its network. Hostkey rents S3-compatible storage, Melbicom sells a CDN and S3 storage, OVHcloud includes anti-DDoS on its ranges, and Contabo sells object storage. Port speed, included traffic and private networking all differ per provider, so compare them line by line on the order form.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Worldstream | Naaldwijk, Netherlands | Monthly rental, no setup fee; the server list on the site starts at €54 a month | EU (Netherlands) |
| #2 | Cherry Servers | Šiauliai, Lithuania | Dedicated servers from €0.084 an hour; monthly and annual terms; spot servers up to 70 percent cheaper | EU (Lithuania) |
| #3 | Hostkey | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Instant servers listed from €50 a month; GPU servers from €90; hourly and monthly billing | EU (Netherlands) |
| #4 | Hetzner | Gunzenhausen, Germany | From about €4.51/month (Cloud VPS) | EU (Germany) |
| #5 | Scaleway | Paris, France | From about €0.0006/hour (DEV1-S) | EU (France) |
| #6 | OVHcloud | Roubaix, France | PostgreSQL essential from about €0.16/hour (2 vCPU / 8GB RAM); MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, OpenSearch, M3DB and Valkey priced separately by engine and tier | EU (France) |
| #7 | Melbicom | Vilnius, Lithuania | See website; the configurator filters by data centre, CPU, RAM, storage and bandwidth | EU (Lithuania) |
| #8 | Contabo | Munich, Germany | From about €4.50/month (VPS) | EU (Germany) |
| #9 | Gcore | Luxembourg | Free tier / paid from about €25/month | EU (Luxembourg) |
| #10 | STRATO | Berlin, Germany | Homepage-Baukasten Basic €9/month (AI website generator only), Plus €15/month (adds AI text, image and SEO tools), Pro €20/month (adds STRATO rankingCoach); discounted first-period rates available | EU (Germany) |
| #11 | IONOS | Montabaur, Germany | PostgreSQL from about €0.06/core/hour plus €0.007/GB RAM/hour, plus storage from about €0.04-0.15/GB per 30 days depending on tier; MongoDB and In-Memory DB priced separately | EU (Germany) |
| #12 | Fasthosts | United Kingdom, United Kingdom | Monthly rental in GBP; the 6-core Xeon E-2356G model is listed at £100 a month after a 13 percent reduction | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
How each alternative compares to phoenixNAP
Best for: Buyers in the Netherlands or Germany who want servers delivered the same day under Dutch law
Worldstream B.V. of Naaldwijk lists 41 configurations, tagged with a delivery time: seven live within two hours, 33 within 24 hours and one custom build in seven days. phoenixNAP promises faster provisioning for its API instances, but Worldstream puts the clock on each row, so you know before checking out what you will wait for.
The terms apply Dutch law, with the district court of The Hague holding jurisdiction, and the data centres are run by a sister company, Greenhouse Datacenters. That is a closer fit for a Dutch or German buyer than an Arizona agreement. Thirty-nine of the 41 configurations sit in the Netherlands and two in Germany, so a footprint wider than that needs a second provider.
What Worldstream does better than phoenixNAP
- Contract under Dutch law with a Hague court, against an Arizona agreement
- Euro prices from €54 a month, with no setup fee on the list we read
- Guaranteed monthly traffic stated per plan
- Delivery time shown per configuration
Where Worldstream is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Monthly rental only on the pages reviewed, with no hourly instances
- No public provisioning API documented on those pages
- Almost all servers in one country, where phoenixNAP lists six locations
Standout against phoenixNAP. It is the only provider here that publishes a delivery clock for every server it lists.
Best for: Teams that create and delete physical servers through an API and want to pay in euros
Cherry Servers (UAB "Cherry servers", Šiauliai) mirrors the Bare Metal Cloud habit of treating hardware like cloud instances. Billing runs by the hour, month or year, spot capacity is up to 70 percent cheaper but can be reclaimed, and the entry price of €0.084 an hour is within reach of the $0.08 phoenixNAP shows for its smallest machine.
The company lists seven locations: Lithuania, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Frankfurt in Europe, plus Chicago, Singapore and Tokyo. It also accepts cryptocurrencies among more than twenty payment methods. Disputes go to arbitration in Vilnius under Lithuanian law, which is a European forum, though not an ordinary court, and the uptime SLA of 99.97 percent is the vendor's own statement.
What Cherry Servers does better than phoenixNAP
- Contract with a Lithuanian company under Lithuanian law
- Billing in euros or dollars, switchable by the customer
- Spot servers, which phoenixNAP does not list on the pages we read
- Block storage, floating IPs and a load balancer next to the servers
Where Cherry Servers is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Three of seven locations are outside Europe, as with phoenixNAP
- Plans can show waiting lists when stock runs out
- Fewer pre-built integrations than the 50-plus instance catalogue and Rancher tooling phoenixNAP describes
Standout against phoenixNAP. It combines hourly billing, an API and spot pricing under a European company, which no other tool on the page does together.
Best for: Engineers who run their own network and want unmanaged servers in several countries
HOSTKEY B.V. contracts from Amsterdam under Dutch law and keeps an instant list on its dedicated page, where a 4-vCPU, 32 GB server costs €50 a month with 1 Gbps ports. It states more than 7,000 servers in Tier III data centres across seven countries, a figure that comes from the company itself.
The feature phoenixNAP does not match on the pages we read is bring-your-own-IP and bring-your-own-AS at no charge, which helps if you own address space. The other side is control: servers come unmanaged, onboarding includes identity checks and sanctions screening, and the location list includes Turkey and the United States next to the European sites.
What Hostkey does better than phoenixNAP
- Dutch-law contract with an Amsterdam company, against an Arizona agreement
- Free bring-your-own-IP and AS
- GPU servers from €90 a month and S3-compatible storage from €2
- Instant list with a buy-now option on stock servers
Where Hostkey is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Know-your-customer checks can delay a first order
- Unmanaged by default, with administration as a paid extra
- Terms of Service page for the Dutch entity carries a 2019 revision date
Standout against phoenixNAP. It is the one European rental here where you can announce your own IP space from rented hardware at no extra fee.
Best for: Cost-driven teams that run stable workloads and want German hardware at a low monthly price
Hetzner Online GmbH of Gunzenhausen sells root servers in its AX, EX and SX lines and runs a server auction of previously used machines at reduced prices. Against phoenixNAP, the difference is the buying style: a fixed monthly rent with traffic included, not an hourly instance you delete after a test.
The company's Robot API manages the dedicated range programmatically, and its data centres are in Germany and Finland. We did not capture per-server prices from the Server Finder, because it loads dynamically, so check the page before you plan a budget. Its tool page counts a smaller managed-service catalogue than Scaleway or OVHcloud as the main trade-off.
What Hetzner does better than phoenixNAP
- German contract and invoice instead of an Arizona agreement
- Server auction for refurbished machines at lower monthly rents
- Unlimited traffic on the dedicated range, according to the page card
- Cloud servers and storage from the same company
Where Hetzner is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Only two data centre countries, both in northern Europe
- Support is efficient rather than hands-on, as the tool page puts it
- No hourly bare metal instances like Bare Metal Cloud
Standout against phoenixNAP. The server auction is the cheapest route on this page to a physical machine under a European contract.
Best for: Teams that already use or want a European cloud and need physical servers beside it
Scaleway, a subsidiary of the Iliad Group in Paris, sells two physical ranges: Elastic Metal, billed by the hour from €0.077 or by the month with a one-time commitment fee, and Dedibox, a monthly rental. Together they cover the hourly case that Bare Metal Cloud addresses and the fixed-rent case that phoenixNAP's dedicated page serves.
Data centres are in Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Milan, all inside the EU, which is a tighter geographic promise than phoenixNAP's list of six sites. The cloud sits next to the servers, so a team can mix instances and metal under one account. Scaleway has fewer regions than the hyperscalers, as its tool page admits.
What Scaleway does better than phoenixNAP
- French contract with all data centres inside the EU
- Hourly Elastic Metal from €0.077 and a separate monthly Dedibox range
- Cloud, serverless and storage under the same account
- Euro pricing with no dollar exposure
Where Scaleway is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Only four data centre cities, against phoenixNAP's six sites across three continents
- Community-based support at lower tiers
- Thinner documentation for edge cases than the largest clouds
Standout against phoenixNAP. It is the only provider here with both an hourly metal range and a cheap monthly range under one French company.
Best for: Buyers who want a large French operator with a range from entry level to high grade
OVHcloud SAS of Roubaix divides its servers into five ranges that run from Kimsufi, the entry line, to High Grade. Each comes with anti-DDoS protection and the vRack private network, and the page card mentions 500 GB of backup space. phoenixNAP sells two product pages with five instance families; OVHcloud offers a wider spread of price points.
The company runs 46 data centres on four continents, most of them in Europe, and owns its hardware. Its tool page notes that pricing is granular per resource, so the real monthly bill takes effort to estimate. That contrasts with phoenixNAP, which prints one price per instance type.
What OVHcloud does better than phoenixNAP
- French company with its own European data centres and hardware
- Five ranges across price levels, down to an entry line
- vRack private networking across servers
- Anti-DDoS protection on by default
Where OVHcloud is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Pricing is granular per resource, harder to estimate than a single instance price
- Console and tooling less polished than specialists, per the tool page
- No single hourly API-first product as direct as Bare Metal Cloud
Standout against phoenixNAP. The Kimsufi-to-High-Grade ladder lets one supplier cover a hobby box and a production server.
Best for: Streaming, ad tech and game operators who need large uplinks and their own routing
Melbikomas UAB of Vilnius lists ports up to 100 Gbps, unmetered servers at 1, 2, 5, 10 and 40 Gbps and free private networking. phoenixNAP quotes a network of up to 50 Gbps on its larger instances, so the two reach different ceilings. Melbicom's 10 Tbps network figure is a vendor claim.
Around twenty locations include Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid, Warsaw and Stockholm, but also Atlanta, Tokyo, Mumbai and Lagos, which makes the data centre field on the order form the key choice. Prices load dynamically and are not readable in the page text, so a quote through the configurator is needed before you compare costs.
What Melbicom does better than phoenixNAP
- Ports up to 100 Gbps and unmetered ranges
- BGP sessions and bring-your-own-IP on dedicated servers
- Lithuanian contract under Lithuanian law
- Component replacement stated as free within four hours
Where Melbicom is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Prices are not visible without the interactive configurator
- Many locations are outside the EU
- Smaller brand than OVHcloud or Hetzner, and delivery times are self-declared
Standout against phoenixNAP. It offers the largest ports and the most routing options on the page.
Best for: Budget-led buyers who want a long-lived server and accept a basic control panel
Contabo GmbH, founded in 2003 in Munich, rents dedicated AMD servers without a setup fee and with IPMI access included. The page card describes unmetered traffic on a fair-use basis, which differs from the 15 TB allowance phoenixNAP gives to a first deployment.
The company operates in several regions, though the dedicated range is listed for seven. We could not read its dedicated prices, because the price block was garbled in the page text, so nothing is quoted here. Its tool page says the control panel and automation are more basic than premium providers, which marks the main gap against an API-first service.
What Contabo does better than phoenixNAP
- German company contracting under German rules
- No setup fee and IPMI included
- Unmetered traffic at several port speeds, per the tool page
- Low monthly entry prices on its VPS range
Where Contabo is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Basic control panel and automation compared with Bare Metal Cloud
- No premium support tier with guaranteed SLAs
- Provisioning can be slow in busy periods
Standout against phoenixNAP. It is the plain low-cost option, with physical cores and large traffic allowances at the price of a simpler toolset.
Best for: Gaming and streaming companies that want servers close to users in many places
Gcore S.A. contracts from Luxembourg (G-Core Labs S.A. in Contern, per its legal page) and rents dedicated servers in more than twenty locations with DDoS filtering and GPU options. The attraction against phoenixNAP is the network around the machines: 180-plus points of presence, edge computing and a content delivery service.
That breadth is also the catch. Gcore is a platform company first, and its tool page calls it overkill for a plain business website. Dedicated prices are rendered client-side, so none are quoted here, and the free tier and the €25 a month starting price on the tool page refer to other products.
What Gcore does better than phoenixNAP
- Luxembourg company under EU rules
- Dedicated servers in 20-plus locations
- CDN, DNS, load balancing and DDoS protection from the same supplier
- GPU options on the dedicated range
Where Gcore is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Broader platform means more to configure
- No dedicated server prices visible in the page text
- Focused on gaming and delivery rather than plain rented hardware
Standout against phoenixNAP. It pairs rented servers with the largest edge network on the list.
Best for: Small businesses that need Windows with Plesk or Docker-ready Linux on German hardware
STRATO GmbH of Berlin, in hosting since 1997, offers dedicated servers on Linux or Windows, with Plesk for Windows machines and Docker-ready Linux images. It owns its data centres in Germany and lists ISO 27001. phoenixNAP's lists focus on instance families; STRATO's focus on operating system choices.
The company shares a corporate parent with IONOS, so the two are less independent of each other than the other European entries. Its tool page describes the design and tooling as competent rather than distinctive. There is no hourly billing, no API and no GPU range in what we checked, which puts it behind phoenixNAP on automation.
What STRATO does better than phoenixNAP
- Windows dedicated servers with Plesk
- Data centres in Germany owned by STRATO
- ISO 27001 listed and a German contract
- Docker-ready Linux option
Where STRATO is a step down from phoenixNAP
- No hourly or API-driven provisioning shown
- Shares a parent company with IONOS
- Narrow footprint, Germany only
Standout against phoenixNAP. It is the one German host here that sells Windows servers with Plesk as a standard choice.
Best for: Organisations that want one German supplier for servers, domains and email
IONOS SE of Montabaur, founded in 1988, sells dedicated servers on AMD and Intel, GPU servers and storage servers with capacity up to 140 TB. RAID and a DDoS shield are part of the offer, and the control panel includes an AI assistant. It also sells domains, email and hosting, which suits buyers consolidating suppliers.
IONOS operates separate terms for IONOS Inc on its .com site, so the entry here points to the German company site; check which entity signs your order. The data centres are ISO 27001-certified and European. Rentals are monthly, so the hourly pattern of Bare Metal Cloud is not reproduced.
What IONOS does better than phoenixNAP
- German contract with a long operating history
- Storage servers up to 140 TB for data-heavy jobs
- GPU, AMD and Intel lines under one roof
- Domains, email and hosting at the same supplier
Where IONOS is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Monthly rental with no hourly instances
- The .com site has a separate US entity, so the wrong page can mean the wrong contract
- Less of an API-first service than phoenixNAP
Standout against phoenixNAP. Storage servers of up to 140 TB are the largest disk configuration named among the European providers here.
Best for: UK organisations that want hardware in a British data centre under a UK contract
Fasthosts Internet Limited rents dedicated servers on Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc, with NVMe or HDD, unlimited traffic over 1 Gbit/s public connections and a price per row. The 6-core Xeon E-2356G with 32 GB is listed at £100 a month, reduced from £115, without VAT and without setup fees.
It sits outside the EU, so the UK adequacy decision is what supports data transfers. The minimum term is one year, many rows say limited stock with ordering by phone, and we did not find the governing law in the terms we read. Against phoenixNAP it trades hourly flexibility for a UK counterparty and plain monthly prices in pounds.
What Fasthosts does better than phoenixNAP
- UK company and UK data centres, ISO 27001-certified
- Unlimited traffic on all dedicated servers
- Price and specification shown per row
- Plesk and an optional backup add-on
Where Fasthosts is a step down from phoenixNAP
- Minimum term of one year
- Limited stock, with phone ordering on many models
- Smaller location list and prices in pounds
Standout against phoenixNAP. It is the only entry here whose home jurisdiction is the UK rather than the EU.
What actually breaks when you switch
Moving a server is mostly moving data and addresses. The data copy takes as long as the disks are large over the uplink you have, so test the transfer rate before you set a cutover date. IP addresses will change unless you use a provider that allows bring-your-own-IP, such as Hostkey or Melbicom, which means DNS records, firewall rules and any partner allow-lists need updating, and records with a long time-to-live need lowering a few days ahead.
Then check contracts and tooling. phoenixNAP bills by the hour or the month, with discounts on reservations, so a monthly commitment with a European provider can overlap with a paid-up term at phoenixNAP. Fasthosts adds a one-year minimum. Terraform or Ansible modules written for pnapctl and the phoenixNAP API will not run elsewhere, and a provider without an API means your team provisions by hand. Run one workload on the new host for a month before moving the rest.
Does choosing the Amsterdam data centre at phoenixNAP make my data European?
It keeps the servers in the Netherlands, which answers the question of where the data sits. It does not change who the contracting party is. phoenixNAP's Master Services Agreement names phoenixNAP, LLC of Phoenix and applies Arizona law, and we did not find a separate European entity for customers who pick Amsterdam. Whether that matters depends on your obligations: a data processing agreement, a transfer assessment and a court of jurisdiction all follow the contracting party.
If you need the paperwork to point to the EU, ask phoenixNAP in writing which company invoices an Amsterdam order, or choose a provider whose terms already name a European company. HOSTKEY B.V. in Amsterdam, Worldstream B.V. in Naaldwijk and Contabo GmbH in Munich each state their own entity in their terms.
Which European host is closest to phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud?
Cherry Servers. It bills by the hour, month or year, offers spot servers up to 70 percent cheaper than on-demand ones and manages machines through a web interface and an API. Its quoted average deployment time is twelve minutes, which is the vendor's own figure, against the 60 seconds phoenixNAP quotes for its quickest instances.
Scaleway Elastic Metal is the second candidate: hourly or monthly billing from €0.077 an hour, a one-time commitment fee for the monthly price, and a link to the rest of Scaleway's cloud. Neither provider has phoenixNAP's Rancher deployment or Megaport routing, so check your own automation before assuming a one-day migration.
Which one to pick
If you want to keep the hourly, API-driven way of working, start with Cherry Servers and Scaleway Elastic Metal, then compare their locations with the ones your users need. If your constraint is a Dutch or German invoice and a delivery time you can plan around, Worldstream is the more predictable pick, and Hostkey fits when you hold your own IP space or need GPU machines.
For a long-running server where cost matters most, Hetzner and Contabo are the places to look, with OVHcloud and IONOS as larger suppliers that cover more product lines. Melbicom and Gcore suit network-heavy and latency-sensitive loads, STRATO is the Windows route, and Fasthosts is the choice if the contract has to be British. Stay with phoenixNAP if you rely on its Rancher and Megaport features and your lawyers accept the Arizona agreement.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on how you buy. Cherry Servers (Lithuania) and Scaleway (France) bill by the hour like Bare Metal Cloud. Worldstream (Netherlands) and Melbicom (Lithuania) quote two-hour delivery on stock servers. Hetzner (Germany) and Contabo (Germany) are the options when the monthly rent is the main criterion, and Fasthosts suits UK buyers who want a British contract.
Yes. Its Master Services Agreement names phoenixNAP, LLC in Phoenix, Arizona, and applies the law of Arizona and the United States. The company lists data centres in Phoenix, Ashburn, Chicago, Seattle, Amsterdam and Singapore, so some servers are in Europe, but the pages we read do not name a European contracting entity.
phoenixNAP shows Bare Metal Cloud from $0.08 an hour and $38.81 a month in dollars. Worldstream lists a server from €54 a month, Hostkey instant servers from €50 a month and Cherry Servers dedicated servers from €0.084 an hour. The configurations differ a great deal, so compare CPU, memory, storage and included traffic rather than the headline figure.
Yes. Cherry Servers lists hourly, monthly, annual and spot billing, Scaleway Elastic Metal is billed by the hour or the month, and Hostkey states hourly and monthly options. Worldstream, Contabo, IONOS and Fasthosts are monthly rentals, and Fasthosts sets a one-year minimum term on its dedicated servers.
Hostkey lists GPU servers from €90 a month, Gcore lists GPU options, IONOS sells GPU dedicated servers and Worldstream lists GPU servers among its features. phoenixNAP's own AI family uses Intel MAX 1100 GPUs and starts at $1,646.72 a month, so compare the accelerator model as well as the price.
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