Frankfurt VPS

Updated 2026-10-30

A Wolkra Frankfurt VPS is a KVM server in our fra1 location in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with unmetered traffic, a free firewall and hourly billing. Everything we offer, from single servers to private networks and load balancers, lives in this one data center.

The fra1 location at a glance

Frankfurt was not a random choice. It is a central point for networks in Europe, so a server there has low latency across Europe from the centre of Europe. For more on the site itself, see the Frankfurt location page.

Who builds in Frankfurt

This page is for people who already know they want Frankfurt and want to know what they can run there.

• Platform engineers setting up a small production stack: app servers, a database, a load balancer.
• Fintech and e-commerce teams that want servers physically in Germany's financial capital and data inside the EU.
• Network enthusiasts running MikroTik CHR as a virtual router or a WireGuard gateway.
• Developers who need a quick Frankfurt box for testing latency or reproducing a bug near European users.

Building blocks available in fra1

Compute

Standard (s), CPU-optimised (c) and Memory-optimised (m) plan families are available. Servers can be resized to a bigger plan, rebuilt with another image, booted into rescue mode or reached through a browser console when SSH is not an option. Delete protection and labels help keep production servers safe and organised. Read more on cloud servers.

Networking

• Private networks with your own IP ranges. Servers can live without any public IP.
• NAT gateways give private servers outbound internet access.
• Elastic IPs map a public address to a private server.
• Floating IPs move between servers in seconds for simple failover.
• Reverse DNS can be set for primary and floating IPs.

Traffic distribution and safety

• Load balancers at layer 4 or HTTP, with health checks. Targets can be servers, label selectors or IPs, including private-only servers.
• Firewalls with stateful inbound and outbound rules, attached to servers or label selectors, at no cost.
• Placement groups spread servers across physical hosts so one host failure does not take down the whole set.

Storage and recovery

• Block storage volumes from 10 GB to 10 TB, which grow online.
• Daily backups at 20% of the server price, with 7 restore points.
• Snapshots on demand, which can seed new servers.

A typical Frankfurt stack

Here is a common layout customers build in fra1:

1. Two app servers in a placement group, attached to a private network.
2. A database server with a volume, on the private network only, with no public IP.
3. A NAT gateway so the database can fetch updates.
4. A load balancer with health checks in front of the app servers.
5. One firewall applied by label to every server in the stack.

You can draw this in the Composer, see the monthly cost before you apply it, and let it create the resources in the right order. The optional AI assistant can draft a first version from a short description.

Billing for Frankfurt servers

Billing is the same for every resource in fra1: a prepaid balance, charged per started hour, capped at the monthly price. Traffic is not billed. There are no setup fees and no contracts.

That makes Frankfurt good for short experiments. Spin up a server, test how your app behaves for users in Europe, and delete it when you are done. You pay for the hours it ran. See hourly billing VPS for examples, and pricing for every add-on.

How to launch in Frankfurt

1. Create an account and add credit by card or with USDT or TRX.
2. Open your project and choose Create server. Frankfurt (fra1) is preselected.
3. Pick a plan family and size, then an operating system or one-click app.
4. Add an SSH key and optional cloud-init user data.
5. Attach a firewall and, if you like, a private network.

If you prefer automation, create a wk_ API token and use the API. The create a server doc covers both paths.

Your Frankfurt server is a few clicks away

Sign up, top up and launch a KVM server in fra1 today. Start at console.wolkra.com.