HV-1
SCOUT
A relay, a bridge, a bastion host. The smallest useful thing.
- CPU
- 1 vCPU
- Memory
- 2 GB
- Storage
- 25 GB
- Transfer
- 2 TB
$4.50/mo
Frankfurt · FRA-1 · Niederrad
Servers in Germany
DE-CIX, best peering in Europe
Answer
Frankfurt sits on DE-CIX, the largest exchange point in the world by peak traffic, at 1 ms local and 7 ms to Amsterdam. Germany has no enforceable general retention mandate after the Constitutional Court struck it down and the CJEU confirmed, and Art. 10 of the Grundgesetz protects telecommunications secrecy — but it remains a Fourteen Eyes participant inside EU judicial cooperation.
§01 Legal dossier
What Germany law actually says
Each claim below names the instrument behind it and the year it took effect, so you can verify it rather than trust us.
- 01
General data retention struck down as unconstitutional and unenforced since
Instrument · 2010
Bundesverfassungsgericht, 1 BvR 256/08 - 02
German general retention held contrary to EU law by the Court of Justice
Instrument · 2022
CJEU C-793/19 and C-794/19, SpaceNet and Telekom Deutschland - 03
Constitutional secrecy of telecommunications, subject to statutory limits
Instrument · 1949
Grundgesetz, Art. 10 - 04
Platform takedown duties for manifestly unlawful content within 24 hours
Instrument · 2017
Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG)
The trade-off
The best network position in Europe and a genuinely mixed legal picture. Germany has no enforceable general retention mandate — the Constitutional Court struck it down in 2010 and the CJEU confirmed in 2022 — and Art. 10 of the Grundgesetz protects telecommunications secrecy. Against that: Fourteen Eyes participation and full EU judicial cooperation, so a European Investigation Order reaches Frankfurt directly. Better than Paris or London on paper, still not a substitute for Zürich.
Measured latency
Round-trip in milliseconds, measured from Frankfurt over the last 30 days.
Frankfurt 1 ms
Amsterdam 7 ms
London 14 ms
New York 84 ms
Singapore 155 ms
Network
DE-CIX Frankfurt, the largest exchange point in the world by peak traffic; transit via Arelion, Cogent and Telia.
Facility
- Facility
- FRA-1 · Niederrad
- Uplink
- 40 Gbps per node
- EU member state
- Yes
- Intelligence alliance
- Fourteen Eyes participant
- Location live since
- 2023
- Test address
- 185.132.44.112
- Looking glass
- lg-fra.incognitovps.com
- Coordinates
- 50.1109, 8.6821
Best for
- Peering-sensitive workloads
- European CDN origins
- GPU training with EU latency
- Bulk transfer
§02 $4.5 — 6 configurations
Linux VPS in Germany
HV-2
RELAY
VPN endpoint, proxy, small site. The default first server.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 60 GB
- Transfer
- 4 TB
$7.50/mo
HV-4
VECTOR
Docker stacks, CI runners, a pruned chain node.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 140 GB
- Transfer
- 8 TB
$15.00/mo
§03 $49.5 — 6 configurations
Dedicated in Germany
DS-0
OUTPOST
Entry bare metal. Your own kernel, your own disk, no neighbours.
- CPU
- 4c / 8t
- Memory
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 1 TB
- Transfer
- 30 TB
$49.50/mo
DS-1
GARRISON
Single-tenant workhorse with IPMI and custom ISO boot.
- CPU
- 8c / 16t
- Memory
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB
- Transfer
- 50 TB
$96.00/mo
DS-2
RAMPART
Highest single-thread clock on the network. Chain nodes love it.
- CPU
- 16c / 32t
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Storage
- 4 TB
- Transfer
- 60 TB
$161.00/mo
§04 $128.5 — 5 configurations
GPU compute in Germany
GX-4090
FORGE
Stable Diffusion, LLM fine-tunes up to 13B, video generation.
- GPU
- 1× RTX 4090
- CPU
- 8 vCPU
- Memory
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 1 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$128.50/mo
GX-5090
FORGE-XL
32 GB VRAM. The best price per token on the network.
- GPU
- 1× RTX 5090
- CPU
- 12 vCPU
- Memory
- 96 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$204.00/mo
GX-A100
CRUCIBLE
80 GB HBM2e for training runs that will not fit on consumer cards.
- GPU
- 1× A100 SXM4
- CPU
- 16 vCPU
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Storage
- 3.8 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$539.00/mo
§05 $10.5 — 4 configurations
Windows RDP in Germany
WR-2
DESK
Windows Server 2022 with full administrator, ready in 60 seconds.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 60 GB
- Transfer
- 2 TB
$10.50/mo
WR-4
DESK-PRO
Comfortable desktop workloads and light automation.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 120 GB
- Transfer
- 5 TB
$18.50/mo
WR-8
STUDIO
Multi-session work, trading terminals, heavy browser fleets.
- CPU
- 6 vCPU
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 240 GB
- Transfer
- 10 TB
$33.50/mo
§06 $17.5 — 4 configurations
Storage in Germany
SX-4
VAULT-4
Cheap bulk capacity for backups, mirrors and media libraries.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 4 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$17.50/mo
SX-8
VAULT-8
Restic, Borg, rclone and Syncthing targets with room to grow.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 8 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$30.00/mo
SX-16
VAULT-16
Seedbox-class throughput with 200 GB of NVMe cache in front.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 16 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$56.00/mo
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 Is Germany a good place to host a server?
Frankfurt connects via DE-CIX, the world's largest exchange by peak traffic, with 1 ms local latency and 7 ms to Amsterdam. Germany lacks an enforceable general retention mandate: the Constitutional Court struck it down in 2010, and the CJEU confirmed in 2022. Art. 10 of the Grundgesetz shields telecommunications secrecy. However, Germany is a Fourteen Eyes member within EU judicial cooperation. The trade-off is fully detailed on this page.
02 Does Germany have mandatory data retention?
General data retention was ruled unconstitutional and has not been enforced since. Instrument: Bundesverfassungsgericht, 1 BvR 256/08 (2010).
03 Is Germany in Five Eyes or the EU?
Germany is a Fourteen Eyes participant and an EU member, so European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations apply directly.
04 What latency should I expect from Frankfurt?
Measured round-trip: 1 ms to Frankfurt, 14 ms to London, 7 ms to Amsterdam, 84 ms to New York, 155 ms to Singapore. A looking glass is live at lg-fra.incognitovps.com.
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