VPS on Ubuntu

If you are looking for a cloud server on Ubuntu, this is the right choice for 99% of web projects, development, and corporate tasks.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS on our nodes rise in 120 seconds and work without timeouts, because the hardware is in a Tier III data center with N+1 redundancy..

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What you get "out of the box" in 2 minutes

  • KVM Virtualization. This means that the processor cores are yours and yours alone. No overselling, as on OpenVZ. The stated 2.4GHz per core is an honest 2.4GHz with 100% utilization.
  • OS Versions. Available: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS (on request). Version 22.04 is rock—solid and supported until 2027.
  • Access to the server. Root SSH access rights immediately after creation.
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Choosing a Server configuration with Ubuntu

Configuration (vCPU/RAM/NVMe)Suitable for whatApproximate cost per monthThe main difference
1 / 2.5 GB / 15 GBTest environments, personal WP blogs (up to 2k units), simple VPN6,80 €Docker will pull, but heavy builds will get up.
2 / 5 GB / 35 GBOnline store on Bitrix/OpenCart, 5-10 WP sites, GitLab CI/CD, CS2/Minecraft game server (up to 20 players)10.99 €Balance of price and performance.
4 / 10 GB / 70 GBHigh-load projects on Laravel, corporate portal with 50+ employees, containerization (K8s Minion)20.98 €CPU reserve for peak loads.
6 / 15 GB / 100 GBDatabases with large amounts of data, video rendering, production clusters30.97 €Disk subsystem with IOPS > 10k.

Which is more important — CPU or disk?

If the project is in PHP/MySQL, rely on the disk IOPS. We only have NVMe. If Python/Node.js (calculations) — look at the core frequency. If the containers are RAM size.

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VPS Infrastructure

  • Tier III Data Center. Allows maintenance without stopping the virtual server.
  • DDoS protection level L3/L4. It is included in the price of the channel. A small SYN flood of up to 10 Gbit/s will be filtered out on the router, you won't even look at the logs.
  • Hosting Backup. Manual snapshots and settings in a couple of clicks. Important: Storing backups on the Ubuntu VPS itself is a bad practice, equivalent to missing it.
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Scaling the VPS

  • Frequent Questions: "I bought a weak server, I lost my business, what should I do?"
  • Increased power. In the billing panel, change the tariff. The server goes into a soft reboot for 30-60 seconds, RAM and cores are added. The data on the disk is saved completely.
  • Power reduction. If you bought it with a reserve and want to save money. It works the same way.
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Typical scenarios for using a VPS with Ubuntu

  • CI/CD pipeline. GitLab Runner on Ubuntu processes pipelines faster than SaaS solutions with limits.
  • Game Virtual Servers. CS2, Palworld, Minecraft. Requirements: one fast core and a lot of RAM. On Ubuntu, setting up via steamcmd is elementary.
  • Corporate mail. A bundle of iRedMail + Ubuntu. It is not recommended for beginners (it is difficult with an IP reputation), but it is excellent for internal document management.
  • WordPress. The ubuntu VPS server with Nginx + PHP-FPM + Redis speeds up the admin by 3-5 times compared to the cheap version.

FAQ

Which version of Ubuntu is better for VPS in 2026?

Release 22.04 LTS. 24.04 is still a bit damp for the prod (there are nuances with the network stack). 20.04 is good, but EOL is a year away. Don't complicate it, take 22.04.

To launch Hello World or WP via the dashboard — no, an advanced user can handle it. To protect against brute force, configure the ufw firewall and kernel updates, yes.

Yes. ERC-20 TRC20 Bitcoin Cash and others.

Ubuntu. Always. If you don't have a task to raise ASP.NET on IIS or 1C:Company. Renting an ubuntu vps server saves licenses and RAM resources (Windows takes 2 GB just to start the system).

The data centers are located in the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, and the USA. Choose an ubuntu data center on a vps, where the ping to your audience is lower.

Reviews

  • I moved from an expensive dedicated server to a VPS server running ubuntu 4 cores/10 GB. Honestly, I thought it would be worse because the price is 4 times lower. It's been 8 months. TTFB on the main 120-140 ms. During this time, the server crashed once, the problem was on our side with the rights to the cache folder. Ticket support responded in 4 minutes at night and resolved the issue.

  • We use the ubuntu VPS server as a build server for GitLab CI. We deploy 20-30 docker containers per day. A 100 GB NVMe disk is a song, previously they waited 12 minutes for assembly on a SATA SSD, now it's 4. If you wish, add the possibility of snapshots of the disk in your personal account in one click, but using scripts is also normal.

  • We took a cloud server for 15 client landing pages on WP. We used to rent a virtual hosting service, and we had a hard time with our neighbors. After moving to release 22.04 with Nginx, complaints about the slow admin stopped. I'm not an admin, but everything is clear in the control panel: where is the restart button, where are the charts.

  • On a single core and 4 GB of RAM, our FiveM build just wasn't breathing. Upgrades up to 4 core/10 GB. The flight is normal. Ping to Moscow for 30 players takes 15-20 ms, without lags. DDoS protection really works — once an 8 Gb UDP flood arrived, we found out about it after the fact from the ticket report. Cloud hosting didn't even hiccup. The price tag for the game server is excellent.

  • I rent servers for specific client tasks: deploy a Kubernetes cluster for testing, spin up Ansible, and check out a new version of the database. It's real in 2 minutes, the images are fresh. It is very convenient that you can delete the hosting and forget, the billing is accurate to the second. On the downside, there is no tariff for very small tests on 512 MB of RAM, but this is understandable because KVM and honest hardware.

Conclusion

Renting VPS servers for ubuntu is the de facto standard for fast development and reliable hosting. Don't skimp on RAM (4 GB minimum for comfortable database operation) and be sure to set up external backup storage.