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
Frankfurt
Frankfurt · FRA-1 · Niederrad
Storage in Germany
Four to thirty-two terabytes of RAID-10 enterprise disk with unmetered transfer and NVMe read cache. Built for Borg, restic, rclone and long-term archives.
Answer
Frankfurt storage servers start at $17.50 per month at our FRA-1 · Niederrad facility. The city hosts DE-CIX, the world's largest exchange by peak traffic, with 1 ms local latency and 7 ms to Amsterdam. No identity is required — payment is crypto-only, and deployment completes in 55 seconds.
§01 $17.5 — 4 configurations
Storage servers plans in Frankfurt
Priced at the Germany index of 1.08. Cheaper in Romania · Bulgaria · Moldova if jurisdiction is not the deciding factor.
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
Frankfurt
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
Frankfurt
SX-32
VAULT-32
Thirty-two terabytes, unmetered, in a jurisdiction of your choosing.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 32 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$103.50/mo
Frankfurt
Why Germany
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.
- General data retention struck down as unconstitutional and unenforced since 2010
- German general retention held contrary to EU law by the Court of Justice 2022
- Constitutional secrecy of telecommunications, subject to statutory limits 1949
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.
- Frankfurt
- 1 ms
- New York
- 84 ms
- Uplink
- 40 Gbps
- EU member state
- Yes
§02 Optional
Add-ons
Additional IPv4
$2.50/mo per IP
Clean address from a separate /24. Up to 16 per server, no justification form.
IPv6 /64
Included
Every server ships with a routed /64. A /48 is free on request.
Encrypted snapshots
$0.04/GB/mo
Daily snapshots encrypted with your key, stored in a second jurisdiction. We cannot read them.
Full-disk encryption at provision
Included
LUKS2 with a passphrase you supply over the console at first boot. We never hold the key.
Storage servers elsewhere
§03 FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 How much is a storage in Germany?
Pricing for storage servers in Frankfurt begins at $17.50 per month at FRA-1 · Niederrad, with the largest configuration at $103.50. Every plan includes DDoS scrubbing, a routed IPv6 /64, and full root access.
02 Why choose Germany for this?
Frankfurt is on DE-CIX, the largest exchange point in the world by peak traffic, offering 1 ms local latency and 7 ms to Amsterdam. Germany lacks an enforceable general data retention mandate since the Constitutional Court struck it down and the CJEU confirmed, and Art. 10 of the Grundgesetz protects telecommunications secrecy. It suits peering-sensitive workloads, European CDN origins, GPU training with EU latency, and bulk transfer.
03 What is the catch with Germany?
Frankfurt offers the best network in Europe but a mixed legal landscape. Germany has no enforceable general retention mandate (Constitutional Court 2010, CJEU 2022), and Art. 10 of the Grundgesetz guarantees telecommunications secrecy. However, Germany is a Fourteen Eyes participant and fully part of EU judicial cooperation, so a European Investigation Order reaches here directly. It's preferable to Paris or London on paper, but not equivalent to Zürich.
04 Do you require identity verification in Germany?
No. Token-only signup is identical across all 16 locations—we never ask for a name, email, phone, or ID, and settlement is crypto-only.
55-second deploy
Storage servers in Germany, from $17.5
No account to create, no email to confirm, no card to enter.