Cherry Servers

What Cherry Servers actually is

Cherry Servers is a Lithuanian infrastructure provider — bare metal, cloud VPS, and the networking and storage around them — that has been selling servers for 25 years without being acquired or renamed. The company (Cherry Servers UAB, CEO Vaidas Rutkauskas, roughly 60 staff per company directories) is based in Lithuania and runs as an independent, privately held business; its own company page claims 39% average annual revenue growth over the last three years and around 30,000 servers provisioned a year. The pitch is not novelty. It is straightforward European infrastructure at a low price, with hourly billing, root access, and humans on the other end of the chat.

The product line splits three ways. Cloud VPS are KVM-based virtual servers with shared or dedicated resources, deployed in about three minutes, from $3.24 to $3.51 per month at the entry end depending on which figure on the page you read (or $0.018 per hour on demand). Instant dedicated servers are top-tier bare metal with a 12-minute average deployment and configurations running from 4 to 128 physical cores, 16 GB to 768 GB of RAM, and two to four disks on RAID 1. Custom dedicated servers let you change any hardware component — including GPU accelerators — with 24- to 72-hour provisioning from $0.098 per hour. There are also spot servers, a server outlet for discounted stock, and "Cycle," a managed bare metal offering for teams that want the hardware without the sysadmin work.

Underneath is a network built for bandwidth-hungry workloads: 10 Gbps uplinks, 100 Gbps+ links between regions, Tier 1 transit (Arelion, NTT, Lumen) plus direct IX peering, and a traffic policy that has become one of the company's signatures — up to 100 TB of free monthly egress per server, ingress free, extra traffic from €0.50 per TB, or unlimited traffic from €0.159 per hour. Blockchain nodes, streaming, high-frequency trading, and data processing show up repeatedly in their customer stories, which fits the profile.

Pricing: what you really pay

Everything is metered hourly or discounted for fixed terms ("save up to 50% with fixed-term billing" on the virtual server pages), and the entry prices are genuinely low. Cloud VPS start around $3.24-3.51 per month; on-demand hourly for the smallest virtual servers is $0.018/hr. Custom dedicated servers start at $0.098/hr — call it roughly $57 a month at 24/7 usage, before VAT — and the reseller roundups we checked quote a 15-day money-back guarantee on dedicated plans. Elastic Block Storage is $0.08 per GB per month for up to 5 TB of HDD with 500 IOPS and triplicated data blocks; floating IPs are $0.002/hr, public IP subnets from $0.016/hr, managed load balancing from $0.0160/hr, and local BGP is free. Backup storage runs 50 GB to 2 TB and is available free of charge for VDS and dedicated customers per the storage pages, with VM backups as a separate product.

Two pricing details we like and one we would watch. Like: the egress allowance (100 TB per server) is generous enough that bandwidth-heavy workloads do not face the metered-egress shock that hyperscalers are notorious for. Like: payment options include crypto alongside cards and PayPal, and the client portal tracks spend hourly. Watch: with a menu this wide — spot, outlet, instant, custom, fixed-term versus on-demand — the headline price and the price you pay can differ substantially; build the exact configuration in the portal before comparing against competitors. In our view the comparison that matters is total cost for your workload shape, and on that test Cherry Servers looks strong against both hyperscalers and other European specialists; our benchmarks track comparable hardware where we have measured it.

Performance & infrastructure

Seven locations are listed across the platform: Lithuania, Amsterdam, Chicago, Singapore, Stockholm, Frankfurt, and Tokyo (the virtual server pricing page now includes Tokyo as a selectable region; some pages still say four regions for VPS and six overall, so check the configurator for what is actually orderable). Every Chicago dedicated server, per the location page, ships with 100 TB of free traffic and a financially backed 99.97% uptime SLA, and the network page states the same SLA across services — one of the few providers in this price class that puts a number on it in writing. Generic DDoS protection is enabled by default on all server deployments at no extra cost at the network level, with DDoS-scrubbed floating IPs available for workloads that need more.

The hardware side is mainstream and current: new Intel and AMD CPUs, NVMe on dedicated lines, up to 128 physical cores and 1152 GB RAM on custom builds, optional GPUs (including on instant servers where the configurator allows), and up to 10 Gbps ports on the dedicated 10 Gbps line across Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Singapore, and Chicago. Automation is first-class: REST API, CLI, Terraform-style DevOps integrations, floating IPs and DNS management through the portal. Deployment times are a stated strength — about 8 minutes average across servers per the company page, 3 minutes for VPS, 12 minutes for instant bare metal.

On reliability culture, the company runs eco-friendly data centers, offers GDPR-compliant EU locations, and assigns every customer a dedicated personal manager at no extra cost, with 24/7 live chat claiming first response in around 45 seconds. Trustpilot sits at 4.5/5 at the time of writing. That combination — cheap metal plus named human contact — is rarer than it should be.

Where it falls short

Cherry Servers is a mid-sized provider (about 60 employees) and behaves like one. The platform covers compute, networking, and basic storage well, but there is no managed Kubernetes, no marketplace of prebuilt appliances, no serverless, and no object storage with an S3 API — their own blog on free-egress providers points readers to R2, B2, Wasabi, or Hetzner for that. If you want an ecosystem around the servers rather than the servers themselves, the hyperscalers and even Hetzner have more.

Second, breadth of documentation and tooling. The docs are competent and the changelog is active, but the API and integrations are thinner than what the big clouds ship, and some product pages are inconsistent — region counts and the entry VPS price ($3.24 versus $3.51 on the same product page) disagree depending on which surface you read. That is sloppy rather than deceptive, and the configurator is the ground truth, but it costs trust in exactly the moment a buyer is comparing.

Third, scale limits on support and operations. Personal managers and fast chat are great until you need a 24/7 enterprise NOC, contractual response times beyond the uptime SLA, or compliance certifications beyond the ISO 27001 that review sites attribute to them. For regulated workloads, verify current certifications directly before signing.

Who should pick this

We pick Cherry Servers for European teams that want bare metal or solid VPS without hyperscaler pricing: blockchain and Web3 operators (a visible customer segment), streaming and data-processing workloads that eat egress, agencies and product companies wanting fixed-cost infrastructure with hourly flexibility, and anyone who values being able to reach a named account manager. It is also a natural home for bare metal projects where GPU-equipped custom builds are needed and a natural comparison point in our VPS listings for cheap European capacity.

A note on billing hygiene: hourly billing is a feature only if you decommission what you do not use. Cherry Servers makes servers cheap to start and easy to keep running, and idle test boxes accumulate on every provider that bills this way. The client portal's hourly spend tracking helps, but the discipline is still yours. We would not pick it for teams needing managed Kubernetes, S3-compatible object storage, or a vast service ecosystem, and buyers who need contractual support response guarantees beyond the 99.97% uptime SLA should negotiate those explicitly.

Key takeaways

• Lithuanian independent provider, 25 years in business (founded 2001), ~60 staff, CEO Vaidas Rutkauskas; Trustpilot 4.5/5.
• Bare metal (instant and custom, up to 128 cores / 1152 GB RAM, optional GPUs) plus KVM Cloud VPS from $3.24-3.51/mo or $0.018/hr; custom dedicated from $0.098/hr.
• Seven locations (Lithuania, Amsterdam, Chicago, Singapore, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Tokyo); 99.97% financially backed uptime SLA; default DDoS protection at no extra cost.
• Bandwidth policy is the standout: up to 100 TB free egress per server, ingress free, extra from €0.50/TB.
• Hourly billing, crypto payments, API/CLI automation, free backup storage for VDS and dedicated customers.
• Best fit: cost-conscious European infrastructure and bandwidth-heavy workloads; poor fit: teams wanting managed Kubernetes, S3 object storage, or a hyperscaler service ecosystem.

Sources

• https://www.cherryservers.com/
• https://www.cherryservers.com/company
• https://www.cherryservers.com/network
• https://www.cherryservers.com/network/locations
• https://www.cherryservers.com/virtual-servers/cloud-vps
• https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers
• https://www.cherryservers.com/bare-metal-dedicated-servers/instant-servers
• https://www.cherryservers.com/bare-metal-dedicated-servers/10-gbps-servers
• https://www.cherryservers.com/bare-metal-dedicated-servers/chicago
• https://www.cherryservers.com/storage
• https://www.cherryservers.com/services/cloud-storage
• https://www.cherryservers.com/knowledge/docs/networking/ddos-protection
• https://www.cherryservers.com/knowledge/docs/networking/ip-addressing/ipv6
• https://ecommerceparadise.com/cherry-servers-pricing