A VPS for Europe, from the centre of Europe

Updated 2026-10-30

A Wolkra VPS gives you a server in Frankfurt, Germany, that reaches users across Europe with low latency, with unmetered traffic and hourly billing from €3.49 per month. One central location, European data residency and no per-GB fees make it a practical home for European projects.

Europe from one place

People often search for a "Europe VPS" when what they really need is a server their visitors in Paris, Warsaw, Madrid and Stockholm can all reach quickly. Frankfurt is a good answer to that. It is in the geographic and network centre of the continent, and it is where a large share of Europe's internet traffic passes through.

Running everything from one location also keeps your architecture simple. You have one set of servers, one private network and one place where your data lives, instead of keeping several regions in sync.

We think it is fair to say the last row out loud. If most of your users are outside Europe, a European VPS is not the best fit for that part of your workload.

Who chooses a European VPS

• EU startups and SaaS teams that want their product, database and backups inside the EU.
• Non-EU companies with European customers who need a place to serve those customers from Europe.
• Developers who want a cheap Linux box with root access and no traffic counting.
• Communities and creators running forums, Discord bots, game servers or media sites for a European audience.
• Privacy-minded individuals hosting their own VPN, mail relay or cloud storage.

What a European server from Wolkra includes

• KVM virtual machines with full root access, booting from a network volume.
• Unmetered traffic on every plan, with fair use and ports up to 10 Gbit/s shared. See unmetered bandwidth VPS.
• IPv6 included, with an optional primary IPv4 at €0.89 per month, and reverse DNS you can set yourself. Details on IP addresses.
• A free stateful firewall with inbound and outbound rules.
• Private networks, NAT gateways and Elastic IPs, so backend servers can stay off the public internet.
• Floating IPs and load balancers for setups that need to survive one server going down.
• Daily backups and on-demand snapshots stored in Germany.

For a visual way to put several of these together, try the Composer, which shows the monthly cost of a stack before you apply it.

Choosing a plan

Standard plans (s) suit websites, APIs and most small services. CPU-optimised plans (c) help with builds, encoding and compute-heavy apps. Memory-optimised plans (m) fit databases, caches and analytics. Live prices for Frankfurt:

You can resize to a bigger plan later. Disks can grow but not shrink, so starting small is a sensible default.

Billing that works for European teams

Prices are in euros without VAT. You pay into a prepaid balance and each server is charged per started hour, capped at its monthly price. That keeps the bill predictable for finance and flexible for engineering.

• Card payments run through Stripe and accept Visa, Mastercard and other cards.
• Crypto payments accept USDT (TRC-20) and TRX on TRON, useful for teams outside the usual banking routes. See crypto VPS.
• No contracts or setup fees, and no traffic invoice at the end of the month.

When your balance gets low we email you before anything stops. The billing docs explain the grace period and what happens next.

Getting started

1. Sign up and confirm your email.
2. Top up your balance.
3. Create a server in Frankfurt with Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream, Fedora or a one-click app.
4. Invite teammates into your organization and give them roles per project.

Teams get organizations, roles, two-factor authentication and an activity log. See teams and security.

Data residency in plain words

Servers, volumes, backups and snapshots for your account are stored in our German data center. The website and console are protected by Cloudflare, emails go out through AWS in the Frankfurt region and cards are handled by Stripe, as described in our privacy policy. For a longer look at what this means for compliance, read GDPR hosting in Germany.

Start your European VPS

Pick a plan, choose an image and have a server in Frankfurt running for your European users within minutes. Create your Wolkra account.