Cloud VPS

What is Cloud VPS?

A Cloud VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a virtualized server running on dedicated, partitioned hardware — giving you root access, persistent storage, and predictable performance at a fraction of the cost of bare metal. Our Cloud VPS lineup runs on AMD EPYC processors at 4.2+ GHz, paired with NVMe-only storage and 40 Gbps uplinks at every tier. Whether you're deploying a personal blog or running a fleet of production microservices, the same hardware floor applies.

The "cloud" in Cloud VPS is more than marketing. Every machine is provisioned in under 60 seconds via our REST API or web dashboard, billed by the hour or month, and can be resized, snapshotted, or destroyed without ticket queues or business-hour limitations. You're not signing a contract — you're renting compute by the second when you need it, and stopping the meter the moment you don't.

FranceVPS Cloud VPS instances run on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisors, which means full hardware-level isolation between tenants. There's no noisy-neighbor problem from shared kernels, no surprise CPU steal, and no provider-managed agent inside your OS. You get a clean Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky, FreeBSD, or Windows install — and root from the first boot.

Why Cloud VPS over shared hosting or bare metal?

Shared hosting and Cloud VPS solve different problems. Shared hosting is cheap and managed, but you're locked into a control panel, you can't install custom software, and your performance is at the mercy of whoever else is on the box. Bare metal gives you absolute power but takes hours to provision, costs €100+/month, and forces you to manage hardware failure yourself.

A Cloud VPS sits in the sweet spot: you get root access and full software freedom, but the underlying hardware is abstracted. If a physical server fails, your VPS migrates live to another host with no intervention. If you need more RAM or CPU at 3 AM on a Sunday, you click a button and the resize happens during the next reboot — typically under 90 seconds of downtime.

For French businesses, there's an additional dimension: data sovereignty. Cloud VPS hosted in France with a French-incorporated provider falls outside the reach of the US Cloud Act, the UK Investigatory Powers Act, and similar extraterritorial frameworks. Your data is governed exclusively by French and European law (GDPR, French Data Protection Act, ANSSI guidelines).

Performance: why AMD EPYC matters

Most VPS providers still run on Intel Xeon processors from 2018-2020 generations because the hardware is cheap on the secondhand market. We made a deliberate choice to deploy AMD EPYC 9004 and 9005 series — the latest "Genoa" and "Turin" architectures — because the per-core single-thread performance translates directly into faster page loads, faster API responses, and faster builds.

In Geekbench 6 single-core benchmarks, our standard Cloud VPS scores around 2080 points. For comparison, AWS t3.medium scores 1424, Vultr High Frequency scores 1380, and DigitalOcean's Premium Intel droplets score around 1188. That's a 46-75% performance advantage on the workload that most often matters: the single-threaded request handler at the front of your stack.

NVMe storage is the second pillar. We don't offer SATA SSD, hybrid storage, or "burst" storage tiers. Every block on every VPS is on enterprise NVMe with sustained 4K random IOPS in the 200,000+ range per VM. Your database doesn't grind. Your npm install doesn't take five minutes.

Use cases: who runs what on Cloud VPS

Cloud VPS is the workhorse of the internet. Here's what our customers actually run:

• Web hosting: WordPress, Ghost, static sites, Laravel/Symfony PHP applications, Django and Rails apps. The Starter at €2.48/mo is enough for a personal blog; the Professional at €14.48/mo handles 100,000+ pageviews per day.
• Development environments: Persistent dev sandboxes that survive your laptop closing. Many of our customers SSH into a VPS instead of installing Docker locally.
• Self-hosted SaaS: Gitea, GitLab, Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Mastodon, Matrix Synapse — anything you'd otherwise pay a subscription for.
• Game servers: Minecraft, Valheim, Counter-Strike 2, Rust. Low latency to French players, no provider trying to charge you per player.
• Bots and automations: Discord bots, Telegram bots, scrapers, scheduled jobs.
• VPN endpoints: WireGuard and OpenVPN servers for personal use or small teams. French IP, no logs, no shared addresses.

The only thing we'd push you off Cloud VPS for is GPU workloads (use our GPU VPS) or sustained 32+ vCPU workloads (use a Dedicated Server).

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