A DigitalOcean alternative for Europe

Updated 2026-10-30

Wolkra is a DigitalOcean alternative for teams whose users are in Europe: KVM cloud servers in Frankfurt, Germany, with unmetered traffic instead of a transfer allowance, prepaid billing by the hour and payment by card or crypto. DigitalOcean is still a great platform for documentation and ecosystem, and we say so below.

Credit where it is due

DigitalOcean earned its reputation. Its documentation and tutorials are some of the best in the industry, and a large ecosystem of tools, guides and community answers has grown around it. If you are learning and want a tutorial for nearly every task, that matters.

The good news is that most of those Linux tutorials apply to any KVM server running the same distribution, including one on Wolkra.

Why European teams compare

Facts below were checked on 2026-10-16.

• Transfer is an allowance. DigitalOcean includes a transfer allowance per plan and bills overage per GB. Workloads with unpredictable or heavy traffic can see that on the invoice.
• Data location. Teams that want a simple answer to "where is our data?" often prefer a provider whose only location is in Germany.
• Payment options. Some customers want prepaid billing or need to pay with crypto.

We don't quote DigitalOcean prices on this page. Check their current price list and compare it with the plans below.

How the two compare

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Mapping the concepts

If you know DigitalOcean, here is roughly how its ideas map to Wolkra:

Wolkra also adds a few things of its own: NAT gateways and Elastic IPs for private-only servers, and a visual Composer that drafts a stack, shows its monthly cost and applies it.

Plans

Live prices for Frankfurt, in EUR without VAT, with unmetered traffic on every plan:

A primary IPv4 is €0.89 per month and an IPv6 address is included. Daily backups cost 20% of the server price. See pricing.

Good reasons to choose Wolkra

• Your audience is European. Frankfurt gives low latency across Europe from the centre of Europe.
• Traffic is a large or unpredictable part of your bill. See unmetered bandwidth VPS.
• You need data stored in Germany. See EU VPS and GDPR.
• You prefer prepaid, hourly billing, or want to pay with USDT or TRX. See hourly billing VPS and crypto VPS.

Good reasons to stay with DigitalOcean

• You rely on products or integrations that only exist in its ecosystem.
• You need servers in several regions around the world.
• Your traffic fits comfortably in the included allowance.

Moving a server

1. Create a Wolkra account and top up.
2. Launch a server with the same distribution, or a one-click app such as Docker or WordPress.
3. Move your app with your deployment tool, or copy files with rsync and databases with a dump.
4. Point DNS to the new server once you have tested it.

Running old and new side by side for a few days is cheap with hourly billing. The getting started doc covers your first server.

See how it feels

Launch a Frankfurt server for an hour, try your workload and decide with real numbers. Sign up for Wolkra.