VPS in Turkey
A VPS in Istanbul, Turkey, from $4 a month.
If your users are in Turkey, nothing beats being in Turkey for speed. Know the local rules before you put anything public there. Billed by the hour, never more than the month, paid in crypto.
- $0.006 an hourcapped at $4 a month
- Ready in minutesusually ready within 15 minutes
- DDoS filteringon every server, no add-on
- No card, no IDpay in crypto from your balance
Who hosts in Istanbul
Why put a server in Turkey?
If your users are in Turkey, nothing is faster than Istanbul. It is also close to its neighbours: the physics floor is 6 ms to Athens, 11 ms to Tel Aviv and 12 ms to Cairo. DE-CIX Istanbul lists 70 connected networks.
Know the local rules first. Turkey blocks websites at scale, so a public site hosted here can be blocked for users inside Turkey. A common setup is to run local services and testing in Istanbul and put the public site in Sofia or Bucharest, close by and under EU law.
Personal data falls under the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK, 2016), amended in 2024 and supervised by the Personal Data Protection Authority. Turkey has been an EU candidate since 1999, with talks at a standstill since 2018.
Turkey at a glance
- Server location
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Jurisdiction
- Not in the EU. EU candidate since 1999; the Council described talks as at a standstill in 2018.
- Data protection
- Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK, 2016), amended in 2024. Supervised by the Personal Data Protection Authority.
- Main internet exchanges
- DE-CIX Istanbul70 networks
- GIBIRIX20 networks
- TR-IX12 networks
- Closest to
- Turkey, with regional reach to the Caucasus, the Middle East and South-East Europe.
Exchange figures describe the country’s internet, not which exchanges your server connects to.
Latency from Istanbul
How close is Istanbul to your users?
The physics minimum, not a marketing number. Where another of our locations is clearly closer, we say so.
- Istanbul0 ms
- Athens6 ms
- Tel Aviv11 ms
- Cairo12 ms
- Rome14 ms
- Warsaw14 msCloser: Lithuania, 4 ms
- Berlin17 msCloser: Germany, 4 ms
- Paris23 msCloser: Luxembourg, 3 ms
- London25 msCloser: Netherlands, 4 ms
- Madrid27 msCloser: Luxembourg, 13 ms
Show all 26 cities
- Dubai30 msCloser: Pakistan, 20 ms
- Almaty39 msCloser: Pakistan, 11 ms
- Karachi39 msCloser: Pakistan, 11 ms
- Lagos46 ms
- Mumbai48 msCloser: Pakistan, 16 ms
- Johannesburg75 ms
- Hong Kong80 msCloser: Singapore, 26 ms
- Seoul80 msCloser: Japan, 12 ms
- New York81 msCloser: United States, 41 ms
- Toronto82 msCloser: United States, 36 ms
- Chicago88 msCloser: United States, 30 ms
- Jakarta95 msCloser: Singapore, 9 ms
- São Paulo106 ms
- Los Angeles110 msCloser: United States, 6 ms
- Mexico City114 msCloser: United States, 30 ms
- Sydney149 msCloser: Singapore, 63 ms
The fastest a round trip from Istanbul 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.
Know this before you deploy
Turkey blocks websites at scale, so a public site hosted here can be blocked for users inside Turkey. For a site aimed at Turkish visitors, pick a nearby country such as Bulgaria or Romania instead: same price, deploy in minutes.
Plans in Istanbul
Every size, deployed in Istanbul.
Same price as every other country. Hourly never goes above the monthly cap, and a Keep year costs less than twelve months.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | Traffic | Hourly | Monthly cap | Keep a year | Deploy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite 2 | 2 | 2 GB | 40 GB NVMe | 1 TB | $0.006 | $4 | $40 | Deploy Lite 2 in Istanbul |
| Lite 6 | 6 | 6 GB | 100 GB NVMe | 2 TB | $0.012 | $8 | $80 | Deploy Lite 6 in Istanbul |
| Lite 8 | 8 | 8 GB | 160 GB NVMe | 3 TB | $0.018 | $12 | $120 | Deploy Lite 8 in Istanbul |
| Lite 16 | 16 | 16 GB | 320 GB NVMe | 4 TB | $0.03 | $20 | $220 | Deploy Lite 16 in Istanbul |
| Lite 32 | 16 | 32 GB | 640 GB NVMe | 6 TB | $0.06 | $40 | $440 | Deploy Lite 32 in Istanbul |
| Lite 64 | 24 | 64 GB | 1,280 GB NVMe | 8 TB | $0.12 | $80 | $880 | Deploy Lite 64 in Istanbul |
| Lite 96 | 32 | 96 GB | 1,920 GB NVMe | 10 TB | $0.18 | $120 | $1,320 | Deploy Lite 96 in Istanbul |
| Lite 128 | 40 | 128 GB | 2,560 GB NVMe | 12 TB | $0.24 | $160 | $1,760 | Deploy Lite 128 in Istanbul |
| Lite 192 | 48 | 192 GB | 3,840 GB NVMe | 14 TB | $0.36 | $240 | $2,640 | Deploy Lite 192 in Istanbul |
| Lite 256 | 64 | 256 GB | 5,120 GB NVMe | 16 TB | $0.48 | $320 | $3,520 | Deploy Lite 256 in Istanbul |
More ways to host in Istanbul
Pay for a year, get months free.
From $40 a year
Deploy a Keep 2 in IstanbulPay once, keep the server.
From $140 once
Deploy a Forever Keep 1 in Istanbul32 TB of traffic a month.
From $8 a month
Deploy a Traffic Lite 2 in IstanbulUp to 3 TB of NVMe storage.
From $10 a month
Deploy a Vault 2 in IstanbulNVIDIA GPU slices, by the hour.
From $40 a month
Deploy a Forge L4 in Istanbul
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 Istanbul.
Three jobs that suit Turkey, and the plan we would start each one on. Delete any time and billing stops.
Local testing and monitoring nodes
See your service the way users in Turkey see it, on the smallest Lite.
Lite 2$4/mo
Deploy Lite 2 in IstanbulGame servers for Turkey and its neighbours
Players in Istanbul, Athens and Tel Aviv are close. Eight vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM.
Lite 8$12/mo
Deploy Lite 8 in IstanbulThe public site, in Sofia
Istanbul is close to Sofia, and the site sits under EU law. Same price, deployed in minutes.
Lite 6, Sofia$8/mo
Deploy Lite 6 in Sofia
How it works
From payment to root in Istanbul.
No sales call, no paperwork. One crypto deposit funds every server you run, in any of our countries.
Create an account
An email address and a password, plus your country for VAT. No name, no phone number, no ID.
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.
Pick the plan in Istanbul
Choose an image, add your SSH key or take a root password, and deploy. Billing starts when the server is ready.
Log in and build
Your server is usually ready within 15 minutes. Full root access, an IPv4 address and DDoS filtering come with it.
Turkey questions
Before you pick Istanbul.
Can a site hosted in Turkey be blocked?
Yes. Turkey blocks websites at scale, and a public site hosted here can be blocked for users inside Turkey. For a public site aimed at Turkish visitors, pick Sofia (5 ms from Istanbul) or Bucharest.
Is Istanbul good for the Middle East?
For the eastern Mediterranean, yes: the physics floor is 11 ms to Tel Aviv and 12 ms to Cairo.
Which data protection law applies in Turkey?
The Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK, 2016), amended in 2024, supervised by the Personal Data Protection Authority.
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
VPS in Bulgaria
VPS in Romania
VPS in MoldovaRun more than one country
One balance pays for servers anywhere we operate, at the same price. A second server in Bulgaria is the simplest backup plan there is.
Your server in Istanbul.One crypto payment away.
Lites from $4 a month, usually ready within 15 minutes. Pay by the hour, never more than the month.