Cloud VPS that boots before your coffee does.
KVM virtual machines on NVMe SSD with IPv6, hourly billing and a clean API. Provision in 55 seconds, resize live, snapshot every hour — across 14 regions.
- No credit card to start
- Free migrations
- Cancel any time
# deploy a 4x8 Performance VPS in Frankfurt $ hostengine vps create \ --plan "performance-4x8" \ --region "fra1" --image "debian-12" ✓ provisioned in 52.4s ✓ ssh root@172.247.18.42 ready
NVMe everywhere, dedicated threads where it counts.
No noisy neighbour, no sneaky burst credits. From the Performance tier up, every vCPU you pay for is a fully dedicated thread on a recent-gen EPYC or Xeon host.
- AMD EPYC Genoa & Intel Sapphire Rapids hosts
- PCIe Gen 4 NVMe — 1.4M IOPS at the disk
- 10 Gbps in-region private networking, free between VPSs
Hourly snapshots and live resize, included.
Spin up, scale up, snap, restore. Lifecycle operations that other hosts charge for are free here, because they should be.
- Resize CPU, RAM and disk live in under 30 seconds
- Hourly automated snapshots with weekly off-site copy
- Restore a snapshot into a different region with one click
- 08:00 Hourly · auto
- 09:00 Hourly · auto
- 09:14 Pre-deploy · CI
- 10:00 Hourly · auto
- 10:47 Resize 4→8 vCPU · 22s
- 11:00 Hourly · auto
IPv6, private VPC and DDoS — on the $5 plan.
Networking primitives that land in the enterprise tier on hyperscalers ship by default. Build private subnets, attach floating IPs, route through our 2 Tbps shield.
- Per-region VPC with up to 65k private addresses
- Free always-on DDoS shield with custom L7 rules
- Floating IPs that survive instance replacement
Pick a size, change your mind any time.
Resize live, downgrade with one click and pay only for the hours you actually run.
Side projects, dev sandboxes and small APIs.
- 1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB NVMe
- 1 TB outbound transfer
- IPv4 + /64 IPv6
- Hourly snapshots (7-day window)
- Free DDoS protection
The sweet spot for production web apps.
- 4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 160 GB NVMe
- 5 TB outbound transfer
- Dedicated CPU thread
- Hourly snapshots + weekly off-site
- Private VPC + load balancer ready
- Free migration from any provider
Memory-heavy workloads and database servers.
- 8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · 400 GB NVMe
- 10 TB outbound transfer
- AMD EPYC Genoa cores
- 5-minute snapshots
- Static IPv4 pool (up to 4)
- Priority support, 5-min reply SLA
All plans include free DDoS protection, IPv6, hourly snapshots and 24/7 human support.
Built for the people deploying it.
Solo SaaS founder
Replaces a $90/mo droplet stack
Runs Next.js, Postgres and a Redis worker on a single Performance plan with weekend snapshots — total bill $24/mo.
Backend engineer at a 40-person startup
Multi-region staging in 5 minutes
Terraform-spawns identical Frankfurt and Singapore stacks, tears them down nightly, pays only for hours used.
Agency lead
12 client environments, one panel
Provisions per-client VPS via the API, hands clients a scoped IAM key, never logs into a root account again.
Honest column-by-column.
The two competitors below are anonymized but represent real category leaders. Numbers reflect documented public pricing as of this quarter.
| Capability | HostEngine | Hyperscaler A | Legacy Host B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Hourly, capped at monthly | Hourly with surge | Annual contract |
| Storage on base plan | NVMe SSD | Network block | Spinning SATA |
| IPv6 included | |||
| Free egress to platform CDN | |||
| Free migration from competitor | |||
| Snapshots in base plan | Hourly | Manual | Nightly |
| 5-min support SLA |
Plays nicely with the tools your team already runs.
Integrates with the stack you already use
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Cloud-init
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Sentry
Everything you wanted to ask before swiping a card.
How fast does a VPS actually boot?
Can I resize a VPS without rebuilding?
What virtualization do you use?
Do I get IPv6?
What about backups?
Can I bring my own image?
Trusted by 180,000+ teams in 140 countries
Spin up your first VPS in 55 seconds.
$200 in welcome credit, free migration from any provider, and a 60-day money-back guarantee on annual plans.
- No credit card to start
- Free migration from any provider
- 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s $ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1" ✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q (172.247.18.42) ✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached ✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days $ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl ✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s