VPS, servers and hosting in our own Riga data centre

In Riga, in a Tier 3+ facility that belongs to us. That is the part worth knowing: we are not renting rack space from another operator, so when a disk needs swapping at two in the morning our own engineer walks to the machine and swaps it. Your data stays in Latvia, under EU law and GDPR, which is usually the answer European clients need in their own compliance paperwork. VPS and dedicated servers can also run from Naaldwijk in the Netherlands if your users sit further west, and Dubai can be arranged for projects that need it.

Between thirty and sixty seconds from payment. Nothing waits for a human: you pick a plan and an image, Linux or Windows, and the machine builds itself. Plans open at 9.35 EUR a month, and CPU, RAM and NVMe are yours rather than shared with whoever else landed on the host, so the numbers you see are the numbers you get. Root access is there from the first second. Growing later is a resize, not a rebuild. The one thing that does need a conversation is a custom image, since those we upload by hand.

Yes, on AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, with up to 10 Gbit of network, in Riga or in the Netherlands. The whole machine is yours, which matters most for databases and for anything where a busy neighbour would show up in your response times. Preconfigured builds ship quickest. Custom builds we assemble around the workload you describe, and the honest variable there is parts: some configurations are on the shelf, others take a delivery, and we will tell you which one you are asking for before you commit.

The people who answer are the engineers who run the data centre, in Riga, around the clock. No first line reading from a script, no ticket that travels through three time zones before someone with access reads it. They handle setup, plan changes, and the incidents nobody plans for. Where the line sits: the software inside your VPS stays yours, so if your own application code is what broke, we will say so plainly and point at the evidence instead of quietly closing the ticket.

Shared cPanel hosting starts at 4 EUR a month with NVMe storage, daily backups and mail included. For a company site or a blog the only other things to buy are the domain and, if you want one, a certificate. The point where shared hosting stops being the right answer is usually traffic or the need to install something yourself, and that is where the VPS plans from 9.35 EUR take over. Either way the machine sits in the same Riga data centre, so the cheaper product does not mean your data moved somewhere else.

99.9% on every plan. What makes that number more than a line in a contract is that we own the parts it depends on: the Tier 3+ facility in Riga with redundant power and cooling, and the network, AS58269, with our own address space. When an upstream provider has a bad night, we reroute around it ourselves rather than opening a ticket with somebody else and waiting. An SLA is still a commitment rather than a promise that hardware never fails, so keep backups of what you cannot lose. If a month looks worse than that to you, we will pull the monitoring data and go through it together.

In Latvia a .lv address quietly does two things: local customers recognise it, and search engines read it as a signal that the site is meant for this market. Plenty of our clients hold .lv next to a .com and point both at the same site, which costs little and covers both audiences. We register .lv through the registry ourselves, along with .com, .eu, .net and around 500 other zones, take over domains already registered elsewhere, and include DNS management at no charge. Keeping the domain in the same account as the hosting mostly saves you from the classic disaster, a renewal notice sent to an address nobody reads any more.

Jurisdiction is the reason that appears in contracts: data in Latvia means EU law and GDPR by default, which is far easier to explain to a European client than a data residency clause in someone else's terms. Latency is the reason your visitors feel, since a server in Riga answers a Baltic user noticeably faster than one across an ocean. And then there is the plain fact that we have been doing this since 2012 and the engineers on the other end of the phone are in the same building as the hardware. It is not the right answer for everyone. If your users are all in North America, our Netherlands region or another provider will serve them better, and we would rather say that early than sell you the wrong thing.