Linux VPS that gets out of your way
Real KVM virtual machines with dedicated resources, enterprise NVMe in RAID-10 and root access from the first boot. Paste an SSH key at checkout and the instance is built with password login already disabled. From $5.00/month.
No setup fee · hourly-prorated upgrades · 72-hour money-back guarantee
What is a Linux VPS?
$ ssh [email protected] Welcome to Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.8.0-51-generic x86_64) System load: 0.02 Processes: 118 Memory usage: 4% IPv4 address: 45.140.188.77 Disk usage: 3% of 118.44GB root@atlas-boost-01:~# nproc 4 root@atlas-boost-01:~# free -h | grep Mem Mem: 7.8Gi 312Mi 7.2Gi
Five sizes, no licence tax
Same nodes as our Windows fleet, minus the Microsoft licence and the 2 GB of desktop overhead — which is exactly why they cost 25-35% less.
VPS Nano
The cheapest way to keep something online 24/7.
Billed $14.25 every 3 months · our shortest term
- vCPU
- 1 cores
- Memory
- 2 GB
- NVMe
- 30 GB
- Transfer
- 2 TB
- 1 Gbps uplink · free DDoS protection
- Full root · any distro or custom ISO
- 1 dedicated IPv4 · free rDNS
- Delivered in ~4 minutes
Best for
VPN / WireGuard exit · Discord & Telegram bots · Cron jobs
VPS Micro
Runs a real production stack without breaking a sweat.
Billed $25.65 every 3 months · our shortest term
- vCPU
- 2 cores
- Memory
- 4 GB
- NVMe
- 60 GB
- Transfer
- 4 TB
- 1 Gbps uplink · free DDoS protection
- Full root · any distro or custom ISO
- 1 dedicated IPv4 · free rDNS
- Delivered in ~4 minutes
Best for
Docker Compose stacks · WordPress / Laravel · Staging environments
VPS Boost
Our most deployed Linux instance since 2021.
Billed $48.45 every 3 months · our shortest term
- vCPU
- 4 cores
- Memory
- 8 GB
- NVMe
- 120 GB
- Transfer
- 8 TB
- 2 Gbps uplink · free DDoS protection
- Full root · any distro or custom ISO
- 1 dedicated IPv4 · free rDNS
- Delivered in ~4 minutes
Best for
Node/Go APIs at scale · Postgres + Redis · Self-hosted Coolify / Plesk
VPS Power
For databases that stopped fitting in RAM.
Billed $88.35 every 3 months · our shortest term
- vCPU
- 6 cores
- Memory
- 16 GB
- NVMe
- 240 GB
- Transfer
- 12 TB
- 2 Gbps uplink · free DDoS protection
- Full root · any distro or custom ISO
- 1 dedicated IPv4 · free rDNS
- Delivered in ~4 minutes
Best for
Elasticsearch / ClickHouse · K3s single-node · Game servers
VPS Titan
Dedicated cores, no noisy neighbours, 10 Gbps uplink.
Billed $162.45 every 3 months · our shortest term
- vCPU
- 8 cores
- Memory
- 32 GB
- NVMe
- 480 GB
- Transfer
- 20 TB
- 10 Gbps uplink · free DDoS protection
- Full root · any distro or custom ISO
- 1 dedicated IPv4 · free rDNS
- Delivered in ~4 minutes
Best for
CI/CD runners · Video transcoding · High-traffic production
Build your own
Nothing fits? Choose every component: up to 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM and 2 TB of NVMe.
- · Any CPU / RAM / disk combination
- · 16 OS images or your own ISO
- · 20 locations, 6 of them offshore
- · Live price as you configure
All prices in USD, no setup fee. Quarterly is the shortest term we sell. Renewals are manual — we email you four reminders.
Every Linux plan side by side
Rates shown are the standard monthly rate. Every billing term discounts it, starting at 5% for quarterly — the shortest term we sell.
Ten images, or bring your own
Every image is a clean upstream install with cloud-init, our SSH key injection and nothing else. No panels you did not ask for, no telemetry agent.
Ubuntu
24.04 LTS
Free
Ubuntu
22.04 LTS
Free
Debian
12 Bookworm
Free
Debian
11 Bullseye
Free
AlmaLinux
9
Free
Rocky Linux
9
Free
Fedora Server
40
Free
CentOS
7 (EOL)
Free
Ubuntu Desktop + XRDP
24.04
+$2.00/mo · Graphical Linux over RDP
Custom ISO
your image
Free · Upload any ISO up to 8 GB
What our Linux fleet actually runs
Ranked by how often we see it, with the plan our support team would recommend.
Web applications
VPS Micro → BoostNginx or Caddy in front of Node, Go, Python, PHP or Rails, with Postgres and Redis beside it. A Compose stack of app + database + cache + proxy fits comfortably in 4 GB.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh $ docker compose up -d
Databases
VPS Power → TitanPostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse. NVMe in RAID-10 with power-loss protection means fsync is fast and WAL flushes are not the bottleneck.
$ apt install postgresql-16 $ pgbench -c 50 -T 60 # 4,180 tps on Boost
VPN & privacy
VPS NanoWireGuard, OpenVPN, Outline or a Tailscale exit node. One vCPU saturates a gigabit port. $5/month for a personal exit in any of 15 countries.
$ apt install wireguard $ wg-quick up wg0
CI/CD runners
VPS TitanGitHub Actions self-hosted runners, GitLab runners, Woodpecker. Dedicated cores and no shared-tenancy throttling, at roughly a third of hyperscaler pricing.
$ ./config.sh --url https://github.com/org --token *** $ ./svc.sh install && ./svc.sh start
Game servers
VPS Boost → PowerMinecraft, Rust, CS2, Valheim, Palworld. Free L3/L4 DDoS filtering matters more here than anywhere else, and it is included.
$ docker run -d -p 25565:25565 itzg/minecraft-server
Self-hosting everything
VPS BoostNextcloud, Vaultwarden, Immich, Jellyfin, n8n, Coolify. 120 GB of NVMe and 8 GB of RAM runs a genuinely useful personal cloud.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.coolify.io | bash
Built the way you would build it
- SSH public key injected at build time — password auth off from the start
- cloud-init user-data field for a fully scripted first boot
- Nested virtualisation (KVM inside KVM) on every plan
- Custom ISO up to 8 GB, bootable from the HTML5 VNC console
- Free IPv6 /64 on request, rolling out fleet-wide during 2026
- Snapshots in 30-90 seconds, no downtime
First hour on a new box
Our most-read guide, condensed. The full version is on the blog.
adduser atlas && usermod -aG sudo atlas ssh-copy-id [email protected] # /etc/ssh/sshd_config Port 2222 PermitRootLogin no PasswordAuthentication no ufw default deny incoming ufw allow 2222/tcp && ufw enable apt install -y fail2ban unattended-upgrades
Questions specific to Linux
Yes. Every Windows plan ships with the built-in Administrator account and every Linux plan with root. You can install any software, add users, change the RDP port, run Docker, edit the registry and reinstall the OS from the control panel whenever you want. We never install agents or monitoring software inside your instance.
Yes. CPU, RAM and bandwidth upgrades apply after a single reboot and take about 60 seconds. Disk can be grown online with no reboot on Linux and with one reboot on Windows. Upgrades are prorated to the day, so you only pay the difference for the time remaining on your term. Downgrades are applied at your next renewal.
AMD EPYC 7003/9004 and Intel Xeon Gold Scalable nodes with DDR4/DDR5 ECC memory and enterprise NVMe in RAID-10, virtualised with KVM. Nodes are provisioned to a maximum 3:1 vCPU ratio on shared plans and 1:1 on Titan and Ultra plans. Typical single-thread Geekbench 6 scores land between 1,650 and 1,980 depending on the location.
Layer 3 and layer 4 DDoS filtering is included free on every plan in every location, with mitigation capacity up to 1.5 Tbps at the edge. Attacks are detected and scrubbed automatically within about 10 seconds. Application-layer (layer 7) filtering with custom rules is an optional $6/month add-on.
Custom ISOs up to 8 GB are supported on all Linux and Windows plans through the VNC console. Nested virtualisation (running Hyper-V, VMware or KVM inside your instance) is enabled on Pro, Elite, Ultra, Power and Titan plans; on the smaller shared plans it is disabled to protect node stability.
Spam, phishing, malware distribution and command-and-control, credential stuffing, DDoS origination, child sexual abuse material, and any traffic that gets our IP ranges blacklisted are strictly prohibited and terminated without refund. Port 25 is closed by default and opened on request after a short review. Everything else that is legal in the server's jurisdiction is fine, including VPNs, scraping within a site's terms, trading bots and game servers.