Starting at
€2.99
per month
or €0.006/hour
Best Price-Performance Ratio
Powered by up to 4 vCPUs, 12 GB of DDR4 ECC memory and 120 GB of replicated local NVMe SSD
Unlimited Free Transfer
Between 100 Mbit/s and 400 Mbit/s of bandwidth for free without any transfer limit
99.95 % Availability Guaranteed
A 99.95 % service level agreement (SLA) suited for non-critical production usages
Use Cases for Development Instances
Software Development
Development Instances have been designed to host your tests and compile your code for an hour or for years. Servers are delivered in a minute. They can be backed up, scaled up or kicked at any given time.
Small Application Deployment
InstantApps let you start the most popular applications without the command line. Using the console, you can set up a cloud storage with Nextcloud and Object Storage, an open source alternative to Slack with Mattermost, a VPN to securely browse the web and more. Installation is done in a few seconds and you can then customize the cloud instances with SSH.
Website & Blog Hosting
Development Instances can also host small to medium websites in the cloud. You can install WordPress in a few clicks directly from the console or a distribution of your choice to fully configure your web server. With a service level agreement (SLA) of 99.95 %, they are definitely suited for non-critical production usages.
Simple & Cost-Effective Pricing
Development Instances are billed by the hour with a monthly capping. They include a server, a volume and an IPv4 to let you develop, host and grow your projects.
Name | vCPUs | RAM | SSD | Bandwidth | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DEV1-S | 2 vCPUs | 2 GB | 20 GB NVMe | 100 Mbit/s | €2.99/month €0.006/hour |
DEV1-M | 3 vCPUs | 4 GB | 40 GB NVMe | 200 Mbits/s | €7.99/month €0.016/hour |
DEV1-L | 4 vCPUs | 8 GB | 80 GB NVMe | 300 Mbits/s | €15.99/month €0.032/hour |
DEV1-XL | 4 vCPUs | 12 GB | 120 GB NVMe | 400 Mbits/s | €23.99/month €0.048/hour |
Powerful Tools at Your Disposal
Customize First Boot
First boot of your Development Instances can be customized using the cloud-init standard. It allows to create clones and scale your infrastructure easily.
Backup & Restore
You can backup and restore your Development Instances at any time, directly from the console. This lets you revert your servers if needed or create replicas at a glance.
Stateful Firewall
With security groups, you can define network rules and policies. It allows you to choose who can access to your server and which which ports can be open to the world.
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