Wolkra

Frankfurt, Germany (fra1)

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Wolkra runs all of its cloud servers in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under the location code fra1, and this is our data center for Germany and the rest of Europe. Your data stays in Germany and the EU, and every Wolkra product is available here.

Location details
City Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Location code fra1
Network zone eu-central
Traffic Unmetered, fair use, ports up to 10 Gbit/s shared
Addresses IPv6 included, primary IPv4 €0.89 per month
Products All Wolkra products

You see the location code in the console and in API responses. Today every resource you create is placed in fra1.

Why Frankfurt

Frankfurt sits in the middle of Europe and is one of the continent's most important internet hubs. For a cloud that serves European users from one place, it is hard to beat:

  • Low latency across Europe from the centre of the continent
  • Germany and the EU as the home of your data
  • One location, fully featured: no feature gaps between regions to plan around

For a business whose customers are mostly in Germany or the EU, one well-connected location is often all you need. Add load balancers, placement groups and backups to make that one location resilient.

Data in Germany and the EU

Servers, block storage volumes, backups and snapshots live in Frankfurt. That makes Wolkra a GDPR-friendly choice for hosting personal data in the EU.

We are open about the processors we use for things around the servers: Stripe for card payments, AWS in its Frankfurt region for sending email, and Cloudflare in front of our website and console. All of this is listed in the privacy policy. For a broader view, read EU VPS and GDPR and the guide to GDPR hosting in Germany.

The network in Frankfurt

Every server in fra1 has unmetered bandwidth: no per-GB fees and no monthly traffic bill, under a fair-use policy. Ports go up to 10 Gbit/s, shared. Each server can have an IPv6 address included and an optional primary IPv4. Read more on the network page.

Products available in fra1

Plans start at €3.49 per month, billed by the hour from a prepaid balance. See pricing.

Who Frankfurt suits

  • Businesses with customers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the wider EU
  • Teams that want their data in Germany for privacy or contract reasons
  • Developers outside Europe who need a European presence
  • Projects that need unmetered bandwidth without overage fees

Use cases that fit well include web hosting, SaaS backends, VPN servers, game servers and self-hosting.

Building for resilience in one location

One location does not have to mean one point of failure. Inside Frankfurt you can:

  • Run two or more app servers behind a load balancer with health checks.
  • Spread servers that back each other up with placement groups, so they run on different hosts.
  • Keep a standby ready to take over a floating IP.
  • Enable daily backups and take snapshots before every change.
  • Store important data on block storage volumes that outlive a single server.

For many European businesses, this gives a reliable setup without the cost and complexity of running across several regions. Billing is the same for every resource: by the hour from a prepaid balance, capped at the monthly price, with no setup fees.

Testing from where you are

The simplest way to check latency from your users is to create a server, run your app and measure. With hourly billing, a test server for an afternoon costs a few cents, and you can delete it when you are done. We do not publish test addresses.

More about servers in Germany

Launch in Frankfurt

Create an account, add a balance and start a server in fra1 in under a minute. Sign up for Wolkra.

Frequently asked questions

Where is the Wolkra data center?

Wolkra runs in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The location code is fra1 and the network zone is eu-central.

Does my data stay in Germany?

Your servers, volumes, backups and snapshots are in Frankfurt, so the data on them stays in Germany and the EU. The privacy policy lists the processors we use for things like payments and email.

Why Frankfurt?

Frankfurt is in the centre of Europe and one of its best-connected cities. A single location there gives low latency to users across Germany and the rest of Europe.

Does Wolkra have other locations?

Not today. Frankfurt is our only location, and every product is available there.

Which products are available in Frankfurt?

All of them: cloud servers, block storage, backups and snapshots, private networks, NAT gateways, floating and Elastic IPs, load balancers, firewalls, placement groups and Composer.