Technology

A small, honest snapshot of what the VPS actually runs on.

Virtualization

VPS instances are KVM virtual machines managed by Proxmox VE. Each VPS has dedicated allocations of vCPU cores, RAM, and SSD storage — no oversubscription on the disk side, light oversubscription on CPU within reasonable limits.

Hardware

Dual-socket Xeon servers with ECC memory and enterprise SSDs in ZFS pools. LZ4 compression is enabled across the board, which typically gives 1.3-1.6× effective capacity on Linux workloads. Storage replication is configured between hosts in the cluster for hardware-failure protection — a single failing drive or even a failing host doesn't take a VM down.

Hardware is refreshed on a multi-year cycle, not on every release. A modern Linux workload doesn't benefit much from a top-tier CPU; we prefer a generation-or-two-older platform with more memory and faster storage.

Network

Default per-VPS NIC rate is 1 Gbps with no monthly transfer cap. We don't meter outbound; we use a fair-use policy instead — if a single VPS sustains line rate for days at a time, we'll reach out before throttling.

IPv4 and IPv6 both available. IPv6 is allocated from our /48 assignment per-customer.

Datacenter

Single facility in Northern Virginia, USA. The site itself is one of the established enterprise-grade East Coast facilities — Tier III equivalent power and cooling architecture, N+1 redundancy on power feeds and UPS, dedicated cooling with hot/cold aisle separation, 24/7 on-site security, biometric access controls, and continuous environmental monitoring.

Network presence at the facility is multi-100 Gbps with blended transit from multiple Tier 1 carriers and direct peering with major content networks. Latency to most US East Coast endpoints is in the single-digit milliseconds; to West Coast endpoints, low-double-digit. The site has formal SOC 2 and ISO 27001 attestation — which doesn't certify our service specifically, but does mean the building and its operations are audited.

We don't claim multi-region or multi-datacenter — single facility, single deployment. If Virginia is bad for your workload (compliance, latency to your users), this isn't the right host.

Backup architecture

Snapshots are kept on the same Proxmox storage pool as the VPS itself — fast, ideal for "revert this bad change" but not a disaster-recovery solution. If the underlying storage is lost, snapshots are lost too. Off-host backup of your VPS data is the customer's responsibility; we're happy to help if you want pointers on tools that work (Restic, Borg, rsnapshot).

What we don't have

Setting expectations up front:

  • No multi-region or multi-AZ failover.
  • No managed load-balancer, CDN, or DNS hosting service.
  • No auto-scaling or spot instances.
  • No GPU-equipped hosts.

If your workload needs any of those, a hyperscaler will fit better. If it doesn't, this is a calmer, cheaper place to run it.