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JOB 02 · DOCKER VPS · AS212345

VPS for Docker and containers

A Docker host is ninety percent disk and memory planning. The Base plan — 4 vCPU, 8 GB DDR5, 100 GB NVMe, 8 TB traffic — is the size where a comfortable stack of containers stops feeling like a game of Tetris.

Recommended build

Most chosen

III Base

€5.50/mo

Base with Docker Engine · 12-month term

Image: Docker Engine on Debian 13

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Round trip from Frankfurt

Düsseldorf4 ms
Zurich6 ms
Paris6 ms
Amsterdam7 ms

SPEC · 4 SHEETS

What this workload needs

Four properties that matter for this job, and how the recommended plan covers each one.

01

Docker Engine on Debian 13, one click after deploy

The docker one-click stack installs Docker Engine, Compose and the usual plumbing on Debian 13, then hands you a clean shell. No marketplace lock-in, no proprietary control plane between you and the daemon.

02

100 GB of local Gen4 NVMe, not network storage

Container layers are small; databases and media are not. The Base plan's disk is a Samsung PM9A3 behind RAID-10, on the same host as your compute — the latency graph has no network hop in it.

03

Root, so compose files are actual files

You are root. Bind mounts, custom networks, host networking, systemd units for sidecars — everything the Docker documentation assumes you can do, you can do.

04

Sized for the stacks people actually run

The popular self-hosted suites (Nextcloud AIO, Mailcow, Gitea plus a database) sit comfortably on a Base or Work. If your compose file is a dozen services, the Forge's 32 GB is where it stops being an adventure.

DATA SHEET · CONDENSED

The short version

Recommended
Base (4 vCPU, 8 GB, 100 GB NVMe) with the Docker one-click stack — €5.50/mo on the 12-month term.
Storage headroom
Extra Gen4 NVMe at €2.40 per 50 GB/month, up to 1.6 TB — cheaper than pruning images.
Backups
Two free manual snapshots; weekly or daily automated restore points at +10% or +20% of the plan.
Not included
Kubernetes, registries, or a GUI. We sell the host; the orchestrator is your religious choice.
Moving up
The Work plan (6 vCPU, 16 GB, 200 GB) is the point where Postgres stops sharing RAM with the web stack.

FLEET · FIT CHECK

Plans that fit

The recommended plan is marked. Every plan runs every solution — these are just the sizes we would start with.

PART EVPS-MICRO · REV. D

II Micro

€3.10/mo

billed €€37.20 once· save 21% vs 6-month

vCPU
2 × EPYC
Memory
4 GB DDR5
Storage
50 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic
4 TB
Port
1 Gbit/s

Typically used forDiscord or Telegram bot · Mail server · Home lab jump host · Small website

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PART EVPS-BASE · REV. D

Most chosen

III Base

€5.50/mo

billed €€66.00 once· save 20% vs 6-month

vCPU
4 × EPYC
Memory
8 GB DDR5
Storage
100 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic
8 TB
Port
2.5 Gbit/s

Typically used forDocker stack · Nextcloud · Staging server · Game server

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PART EVPS-WORK · REV. D

IV Work

€10.40/mo

billed €€124.80 once· save 19% vs 6-month

vCPU
6 × EPYC
Memory
16 GB DDR5
Storage
200 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic
12 TB
Port
2.5 Gbit/s

Typically used forProduction web app · Postgres primary · CI runner · Scraping

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Q&A · REV. C

Questions people ask

Four answers per solution, and each one is the same answer support would give you.

Is Docker preinstalled, or do I install it myself?
The recommended build provisions Debian 13 with Docker Engine and Compose already installed and enabled, so the first command after SSH login can be a compose up. If you prefer to install it yourself, any plain OS image works too.
Can I run multiple stacks and multiple compose projects?
Yes — that is the normal setup. Each compose project gets its own network, and you are root, so nothing stops you. The limit is the plan's RAM, which is why the recommendation starts at 8 GB for anything beyond a hobby stack.
Do I get a container registry or orchestrator?
No. We provide the daemon, the disk and the network; images come from where you want them and orchestration is whatever you install. A fair-share vCPU is not the place to run a Kubernetes control plane — for that, dedicated cores or the Forge plan.
Why Docker on Debian rather than Ubuntu or Alpine?
The stack image ships on Debian 13 because it is the distribution we patch most predictably and whose upgrade path causes the fewest container surprises. You are free to deploy any of the other ten OS images and install Docker yourself.

ADJACENT JOB CARDS

Related jobs

Adjacent workloads, if this one is not quite the shape of your problem.

Nextcloud VPS

Nextcloud 30 AIO, your own disk, from €10.40/mo on the Work plan.

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Mail server VPS

Mailcow in one click, port 25 opened on request, rDNS in minutes.

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Scraping VPS

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