Deploy a KVM VPS with dedicated CPU cores, enterprise NVMe SSD storage, and a 99.99% uptime SLA — in 20+ global cities. From $3.99/month, no setup fees, no surprises.
Every VPS hosting plan includes free DDoS protection, full root access, IPv6 networking, and 24/7 human support. Choose the size that fits — upgrade any time with one reboot.
A Virtual Private Server — VPS for short — is a slice of a physical server delivered through virtualization. You get a dedicated portion of CPU, RAM, and NVMe storage, your own operating system, your own root password, and complete isolation from other tenants on the same hardware. To you and your software, a VPS looks and behaves exactly like a dedicated server. To us, it's a unit of capacity we can deploy in 30 seconds.
VPS hosting sits between two extremes. On one side is shared hosting, where hundreds of websites compete for the same CPU on the same machine — cheap, but unpredictable, insecure, and impossible to scale. On the other side is dedicated hosting, where you rent the entire physical server — fast and isolated, but expensive, slow to provision, and overkill for most workloads.
VPS hosting gives you most of the dedicated experience at a fraction of the price. Dedicated CPU cores. Dedicated RAM. Dedicated NVMe storage. Full root access. The ability to install any kernel, run any software, open any port. And because virtualization is fast, you can scale up, scale down, or migrate between regions without buying a new server every time.
Every VPS provider claims to be fast, reliable, and well-supported. We don't expect you to take our word for it — we publish benchmarks, share real network maps, and back our claims with a financially-meaningful SLA.
Even the $3.99 Starter runs on enterprise U.2 NVMe SSDs — 3.5 GB/s sequential read, 600,000+ random IOPS, the database performance of a dedicated server costing 10× as much.
Hardware-level isolation. Your kernel is yours. Your block device is yours. Your network stack is yours. Run Docker, WireGuard, custom kernels — all work normally.
Tokyo costs the same as New York costs the same as Mumbai. We don't charge "premium region" surcharges, and we don't gate features behind geographic tiers.
Always-on Layer 3 and Layer 4 mitigation, no traffic surcharges during attacks. Premium adds Layer 7 protection with a managed Web Application Firewall.
Median first response across our 24/7 channel is seven minutes. Every ticket reaches an actual engineer who runs servers — no first-line outsourcing, no "have you tried turning it off and on again." We were tired of bad hosting support, so we hired good support.
NVMe stands for Non-Volatile Memory Express. It's a storage protocol designed specifically for fast solid-state drives, replacing the older SATA and SAS interfaces that were originally designed for spinning hard drives.
The performance gap between NVMe and SATA SSDs is enormous:
For most web workloads, the IOPS and latency improvements matter more than raw bandwidth. A WordPress page render that touches 200 small files boots noticeably faster on NVMe. A Postgres query that hits an index spends less time on I/O wait. A Docker pull that writes thousands of small files completes in seconds rather than minutes.
We deploy two NVMe drives per host in software RAID 1 (mirrored) for durability. If one drive fails, your VPS keeps running while we hot-swap the failed unit. We've done this hundreds of times — neither you nor your application notices.
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the open-source hypervisor built into the Linux kernel. It provides full hardware virtualization, which means each VPS gets its own kernel, its own boot loader, and its own block-level storage. There's no shared filesystem with the host, no shared network namespace, and no shared memory.
Compile your own Linux, switch to FreeBSD, or run Windows
Nested virtualization works with no performance penalty
Kernel modules load without any restriction
Tune TCP buffers, conntrack, file descriptors yourself
Not a fake counter that triggers random OOM kills
nftables, iptables, ipset — all work normally
Most of our customers run Linux. We support every major distribution out of the box, and we don't charge extra for any of them:
Every Linux VPS hosting plan ships with cloud-init pre-configured, which means you can pass a startup script at provisioning time to install Docker, NGINX, your favorite database, and your SSH keys — all before you log in for the first time.
Need a Windows VPS? We support Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 (Standard and Datacenter editions), plus Windows 10 and Windows 11 for development workloads.
Windows licensing follows Microsoft's SPLA model — you pay a small monthly licensing surcharge on top of the base VPS price (typically $7-15/mo depending on the edition). Bring-Your-Own-License is supported if you have a qualifying volume agreement.
Every Windows VPS hosting plan includes:
VPS hosting is genuinely versatile. Here's what our customers actually deploy on OliveVPS:
Starter handles ~10K monthly visitors. Pro 100K+. Premium with caching: millions.
CS2, Valorant, Minecraft, Rust, ARK — dedicated cores, low latency, Premium handles 64-128 players.
Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Rust, Java — pair with self-hosted Postgres for a full stack.
The $3.99 Starter is a perfect dev box. Spin up replicas for staging, demo, or branch envs.
WireGuard, OpenVPN, Tailscale exit nodes, SOCKS5, Squid — no port blocking.
Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Plex, Jellyfin, Mastodon, Matrix, Gitea — runs better than a home server.
Reverse DNS configurable. Port 25 open. Clean IP reputation across all regions.
Docker, k3s, microk8s, full Kubernetes — nested virtualization works cleanly.
Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse — NVMe lets you push hard.
We benchmark every region every Monday and publish the numbers. Here are typical results from a Pro tier (2 vCPU AMD EPYC, 4 GB DDR4):
make -j Linux kernel build completes in 11 minutes on Premium, 22 minutes on Pro.
Every VPS hosting plan includes always-on Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS mitigation up to 10 Gbps. The scrubbing happens at the edge of our network, before traffic reaches your server. We handle SYN floods, UDP amplification, ICMP floods, DNS reflection, NTP reflection, and most common volumetric attacks automatically.
For applications that need protection against Layer 7 attacks — HTTP floods, slowloris, application-layer abuse — we offer DDoS Pro on Premium plans and as a paid add-on elsewhere. DDoS Pro includes a tuned Web Application Firewall, intelligent rate limiting, and bot-challenge pages with sub-100ms decision time.
On the host side, every VPS gets:
Hosting fails. Networks flap. Hardware dies. What separates good VPS providers from great ones is what happens next. Our support is delivered by the same team that runs the data centers, and we publish honest numbers:
We back every plan with a 99.99% uptime SLA. If we miss the target, we credit your account proactively — you don't need to ask. Credits are 5% of monthly fees per 0.01% of missed uptime, capped at 100% of monthly fees.
Choosing the right hosting tier saves you money and headaches. Here's the honest comparison:
Cheap ($2-5/mo), but everything is shared — CPU, RAM, IP address, sometimes even the database. Suitable for a personal blog with negligible traffic. Not suitable for anything that grows. The minute another tenant on your server gets attacked or starts a runaway script, your site slows to a crawl.
Dedicated CPU and RAM, full root access, predictable performance. Costs $5-30/mo for typical configurations. Suitable for: WordPress sites with real traffic, application backends, game servers, development environments, self-hosted apps, small SaaS products.
You rent the entire physical server. Costs $100-500+/mo. Suitable for: very high-traffic sites, latency-critical workloads (HFT, ad serving), GPU workloads (ML training), regulated workloads (HIPAA, PCI-DSS), or anything where you genuinely need 100% of the hardware. See our dedicated server plans →
VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting gives you a dedicated portion of a physical server's resources through KVM virtualization. You get full root access, the ability to install any operating system, and isolation from other tenants. To your software, it looks and behaves like a dedicated server.
Most plans deploy in under 30 seconds. SSH credentials and IPv4/IPv6 addresses are issued immediately after payment confirmation. Windows VPS deployments take 2-5 minutes due to the larger base image.
Our Starter planstarts at $3.99 per month and includes 1 vCPU dedicated, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe SSD, and 1 TB bandwidth on a 1 Gbps network — Linux only. There are no setup fees and you can cancel within seven days for a full refund.
Yes. Upgrades from Starter to Pro to Premium happen with a single reboot, typically taking 60-90 seconds. Disk size, RAM, and CPU all scale up. Data is preserved.
We don't offer a free trial, but every plan carries a 7-day money-back guarantee. Order, test, and if you're not satisfied we refund 100% — no questions asked.
Yes. Every OliveVPS plan uses KVM with full nested virtualization support. Docker, Kubernetes (k3s, microk8s, full clusters), LXC containers, and even nested KVM virtual machines all work without performance penalty.
Yes. KVM provides hardware-level isolation. Your kernel, your block device, and your network namespace are entirely yours. There is no shared filesystem, no shared kernel, and no cross-tenant memory access.
Yes. We accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, and Lightning Network — alongside major credit cards, PayPal, and bank transfer. Crypto payments settle instantly through Coinbase Commerce.