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VPS in the Netherlands

A VPS in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from $4 a month.

If you only pick one European location, most people pick this one. Amsterdam is home to AMS-IX, with 857 connected networks, and a short hop from most of Western Europe. Billed by the hour, never more than the month, paid in crypto.

Deploy in AmsterdamSee plans and prices

Who hosts in Amsterdam

Why put a server in the Netherlands?

Amsterdam is the safe first pick for Europe. AMS-IX lists 857 connected networks, NL-ix another 540, and the physics floor from here is 4 ms to London, 4 ms to Paris and 6 ms to Berlin. If you sell to Western Europe and don’t yet know which country your users are in, start here and measure.

It is also a clean answer to a compliance question. The Netherlands is an EU founding member, the GDPR applies, and the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens supervises it. A business that sells to Europeans can keep its data inside the EU without explaining an unusual jurisdiction to anyone.

Where Amsterdam is not the best pick: Athens, Istanbul and the eastern Mediterranean are much closer to our Sofia and Istanbul servers, and Asia is far closer to Singapore and Tokyo. The latency chart below names the better location wherever one wins by 10 ms or more.

Netherlands at a glance

Server location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jurisdiction
EU founding member (1958). GDPR applies.
Data protection
GDPR, supervised by the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
Main internet exchanges
  • AMS-IX857 networks
  • NL-ix540 networks
  • GNM-IX441 networks
  • Frys-IX324 networks
Closest to
Western Europe, the UK, Benelux, Germany and France.

Exchange figures describe the country’s internet, not which exchanges your server connects to. AMS-IX connects more networks than any other exchange in our 15 countries except DE-CIX Frankfurt.

Latency from Amsterdam

How close is Amsterdam to your users?

The physics minimum, not a marketing number. Where another of our locations is clearly closer, we say so.

  1. London4 ms
  2. Paris4 ms
  3. Berlin6 ms
  4. Warsaw11 ms
  5. Rome13 ms
  6. Madrid15 ms
  7. Athens22 msCloser: Bulgaria, 5 ms
  8. Istanbul22 msCloser: Turkey, 0 ms
  9. Cairo33 msCloser: Turkey, 12 ms
  10. Tel Aviv33 msCloser: Turkey, 11 ms
Show all 26 cities
  1. Lagos51 ms
  2. Almaty52 msCloser: Pakistan, 11 ms
  3. Dubai52 msCloser: Pakistan, 20 ms
  4. New York59 msCloser: United States, 41 ms
  5. Karachi60 msCloser: Pakistan, 11 ms
  6. Toronto60 msCloser: United States, 36 ms
  7. Chicago66 msCloser: United States, 30 ms
  8. Mumbai69 msCloser: Pakistan, 16 ms
  9. Seoul86 msCloser: Japan, 12 ms
  10. Los Angeles89 msCloser: United States, 6 ms
  11. Johannesburg90 msCloser: Turkey, 75 ms
  12. Mexico City92 msCloser: United States, 30 ms
  13. Hong Kong93 msCloser: Singapore, 26 ms
  14. São Paulo98 ms
  15. Jakarta114 msCloser: Singapore, 9 ms
  16. Sydney166 msCloser: Singapore, 63 ms

The fastest a round trip from Amsterdam could ever be: light in fibre covers about 200 km per millisecond, over the straight-line distance. Real routes are longer and add equipment, so expect more. We only suggest another location when it saves at least 10 ms, and some neighbouring countries don’t connect directly, so a closer location can still be slower. Hourly billing makes it cheap to test both.

Plans in Amsterdam

Every size, deployed in Amsterdam.

Same price as every other country. Hourly never goes above the monthly cap, and a Keep year costs less than twelve months.

PlanvCPURAMNVMeTrafficHourlyMonthly capKeep a year
Lite 222 GB40 GB NVMe1 TB$0.006$4$40Deploy
Lite 666 GB100 GB NVMe2 TB$0.012$8$80Deploy
Lite 888 GB160 GB NVMe3 TB$0.018$12$120Deploy
Lite 161616 GB320 GB NVMe4 TB$0.03$20$220Deploy
Lite 321632 GB640 GB NVMe6 TB$0.06$40$440Deploy
Lite 642464 GB1,280 GB NVMe8 TB$0.12$80$880Deploy
Lite 963296 GB1,920 GB NVMe10 TB$0.18$120$1,320Deploy
Lite 12840128 GB2,560 GB NVMe12 TB$0.24$160$1,760Deploy
Lite 19248192 GB3,840 GB NVMe14 TB$0.36$240$2,640Deploy
Lite 25664256 GB5,120 GB NVMe16 TB$0.48$320$3,520Deploy

More ways to host in Amsterdam

Prices exclude VAT, which applies to EU consumers. Traffic counts outbound only, and the allowances of all your servers add up into one pool. Full pricing.

Good fits

What to run in Amsterdam.

Three jobs that suit the Netherlands, and the plan we would start each one on. Delete any time and billing stops.

  • A SaaS or shop backend for Europe

    One server close to the UK, France, Benelux and Germany at once. Eight vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM carry a busy app and its database.

    Lite 8$12/mo

    Deploy Lite 8 in Amsterdam

  • Downloads, mirrors and video

    A Traffic Lite gives you 32 TB of outbound traffic a month in Amsterdam, for the projects that would blow through a normal allowance.

    Traffic Lite 4$10/mo

    Deploy Traffic Lite 4 in Amsterdam

  • A VPN or dev box you pay for once

    A Forever Keep is a small server you buy one time and keep, with 32 TB of traffic a month. A good personal VPN exit inside the EU.

    Forever Keep 1$140 once

    Deploy Forever Keep 1 in Amsterdam

How it works

From payment to root in Amsterdam.

No sales call, no paperwork. One crypto deposit funds every server you run, in any of our countries.

  1. Create an account

    An email address and a password, plus your country for VAT. No name, no phone number, no ID.

  2. Add funds in crypto

    From $20, in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Solana, BNB, XRP or Monero. Your first deposit picks up the launch bonus by itself.

  3. Pick the plan in Amsterdam

    Choose an image, add your SSH key or take a root password, and deploy. Billing starts when the server is ready.

  4. Log in and build

    Your server is usually ready within 15 minutes. Full root access, an IPv4 address and DDoS filtering come with it.

Netherlands questions

Before you pick Amsterdam.

Is Amsterdam fast for users in the UK, France and Germany?

Yes. The physics floor from Amsterdam is 4 ms to London, 4 ms to Paris and 6 ms to Berlin. Real pings are higher, but distances in Western Europe barely get shorter than this.

Should I pick Amsterdam or Frankfurt?

Both are central. Amsterdam is a little closer to London (4 ms against 6 ms from Frankfurt). Frankfurt is closer to Warsaw (9 ms against 11 ms) and the east. Hourly billing makes it cheap to try both and measure.

Does GDPR apply to my server in the Netherlands?

The Netherlands applies the GDPR, supervised by the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. Whether it applies to your own project depends on who you are and whose personal data you handle, not only on where the server sits.

Is the Netherlands a no-takedown location?

No. Like every EU country it applies the Digital Services Act, which requires hosting providers to run a notice-and-action process for reports of illegal content.

Can I run a high-traffic project in Amsterdam?

Yes. Every plan includes traffic, and a Traffic Lite includes 32 TB a month. Only outbound traffic counts, the allowances of all your servers add up into one pool, and anything beyond the pool costs $2 per TB.

Does a server here cost more than in other countries?

No. Every plan costs the same in all 15 of our countries, with the same traffic allowance, billed by the hour and never more than the monthly price.

Nearby countries

Run more than one country

One balance pays for servers anywhere we operate, at the same price. A second server in Germany is the simplest backup plan there is.

Your server in Amsterdam.One crypto payment away.

Lites from $4 a month, usually ready within 15 minutes. Pay by the hour, never more than the month.

Deploy in AmsterdamSee every price