VPS, servers and hosting in our own Riga data centre

CloudHosting servers are in Riga, Latvia, in a Tier 3+ data centre at Bērzaunes iela 1 that we run ourselves. That is the part worth knowing: we do not rent rack space from another operator, and the engineers who answer you work next to the hardware. Monitoring and incident response run 24/7, and engineers answer on working days 9:00 to 17:00 Riga time. Your data stays in Latvia, under EU law and GDPR, which is usually the answer European clients need in their own compliance paperwork. VPS and dedicated servers can also run from Amsterdam in the Netherlands if your users sit further west, and Dubai (DXB1) is available on request.

A CloudHosting VPS is ready thirty to sixty seconds after payment. Nothing waits for a human: you pick a plan and an image, Linux or Windows, and the machine builds itself. Plans open at 9.35 EUR a month, and CPU, RAM and NVMe are yours rather than shared with whoever else landed on the host, so the numbers you see are the numbers you get. Root access is there from the first second. Growing later is a resize, not a rebuild. The one thing that does need a conversation is a custom image, since those we upload by hand.

Yes: CloudHosting rents AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon dedicated servers from 130.05 EUR a month, in Riga or in Amsterdam, with a 1 Gbit port as standard and 10 Gbit or more on request; ready 10 Gbps servers are in Amsterdam. The whole machine is yours, which matters most for databases and for anything where a busy neighbour would show up in your response times. Preconfigured builds ship quickest. Custom builds we assemble around the workload you describe, and the honest variable there is parts: some configurations are on the shelf, others take a delivery, and we will tell you which one you are asking for before you commit.

At CloudHosting the people who answer are the engineers who run the data centre in Riga, and monitoring and incident response run 24/7. They answer tickets, phone and email on working days 9:00 to 17:00 Riga time, in English, Latvian and Russian, and an incident that takes the infrastructure down is handled at any hour. No first line reading from a script, no ticket that travels through three time zones before someone with access reads it. They handle setup, plan changes, and the incidents nobody plans for. Where the line sits: the software inside your VPS stays yours, so if your own application code is what broke, we will say so plainly and point at the evidence instead of quietly closing the ticket.

CloudHosting shared cPanel hosting starts at 3.20 EUR a month on a 24-month term, or 4.00 EUR month to month, with NVMe storage, daily backups kept for 14 days and mail included. For a company site or a blog the only other things to buy are the domain and, if you want one, a certificate. The point where shared hosting stops being the right answer is usually traffic or the need to install something yourself, and that is where the VPS plans from 9.35 EUR take over. Either way the machine sits in the same Riga data centre, so the cheaper product does not mean your data moved somewhere else.

CloudHosting's stated availability target is 99.9% on every plan. What stands behind that number is that we run the parts it depends on ourselves: the Tier 3+ facility in Riga with redundant power and cooling, and the network, AS58269, with our own address space. When an upstream provider has a bad night, we reroute around it ourselves rather than opening a ticket with somebody else and waiting. The 99.9% is a published availability target, not a contractual SLA; a binding SLA is agreed per offer for business contracts. No target is a promise that hardware never fails, so keep backups of what you cannot lose. If a month looks worse than that to you, we will pull the monitoring data and go through it together.

Yes: CloudHosting registers .lv domains through the registry itself, and in Latvia a .lv address quietly does two things: local customers recognise it, and search engines read it as a signal that the site is meant for this market. Plenty of our clients hold .lv next to a .com and point both at the same site, which costs little and covers both audiences. Besides .lv we register .com, .eu, .net and around 500 other zones, take over domains already registered elsewhere, and include DNS management at no charge. Keeping the domain in the same account as the hosting mostly saves you from the classic disaster, a renewal notice sent to an address nobody reads any more.

CloudHosting keeps your data in Riga, Latvia, and jurisdiction is the reason that appears in contracts: EU law and GDPR apply by default, which is far easier to explain to a European client than a data residency clause in someone else's terms. Latency is the reason your visitors feel, since a server in Riga answers a Baltic user noticeably faster than one across an ocean. And then there is the plain fact that we have been doing this since 2016 and the engineers on the other end of the phone are in the same building as the hardware. It is not the right answer for everyone. If your users are all in North America, our Netherlands region or another provider will serve them better, and we would rather say that early than sell you the wrong thing.