Cherry Servers

What Cherry Servers actually is

Cherry Servers is a Lithuanian infrastructure provider that has been around far longer than most of the companies it competes with. UAB Cherry Servers was incorporated in Šiauliai in April 2001, and the business grew out of a student IT project into what it calls Baltic Servers and later Cherry Servers. That history matters more than it sounds: this is a bootstrapped company with roughly 40-60 employees that has survived two decades of hosting-industry churn without outside funding, and its product reflects that. It sells dedicated bare metal first, virtual servers second, and it prices both in plain numbers on public pages.

The lineup covers most of what a small infrastructure team needs. Cloud VPS plans on shared cores start at $3.51 per month (1 vCore, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB transfer). Virtual dedicated servers with guaranteed cores start around $33.93 per month on promotion for 4 vCores / 16 GB / 100 GB NVMe. Bare metal starts at $57.33 per month for an outlet server with an older Intel Xeon E3-1240V3, or $174.33 per month for a current-generation Intel Gold 5315Y with 32 GB RAM and dual 250 GB NVMe. On top of that sit elastic block storage ($0.077 per GB per month), backup storage ($3.50 per 50 GB per month, free with dedicated servers), floating IPs ($2.34 per month), public IP subnets ($18.72 per 5 IPs per month), and a managed load balancer ($11.86 per month). In our view this is one of the clearer price lists in the European hosting market, with the caveats we cover below.

The company is genuinely European in character. Its flagship facility is its own Duomenu Centras data center in Šiauliai, Lithuania, and it has expanded to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Chicago, Singapore, and Tokyo — seven locations in total. Most sites are in carrier hotels run by Equinix or CoreSite, with ISO 27001 and SOC 1/SOC 2 attestations published per location. If you care about GDPR-friendly EU hosting with a provider that answers to a single EU jurisdiction, that combination of own-facility plus certified colo is a reasonable setup.

Pricing: what you really pay

We spent time reading Cherry's own price pages and, frankly, they do not all agree with each other. The Cloud VPS product page advertises a starting price of $3.51 per month in its plan cards, then says $3.24 in one FAQ answer and $5.83 in another on the same page. Dedicated servers "start from $0.098/hr" on the home page (the outlet E3 box) but "from $0.298/hr" on the bare metal page (the cheapest current-generation box). Both are true statements about different shelves of the same shop. Plan against $3.51 per month and $57.33 per month, which match the actual price lists.

The billing mechanics deserve a close read. Every server has an hourly rate, but hourly billing is the most expensive way to run anything long-term: Cloud VPS 1 (Gen 2) at $0.018 per hour costs roughly $13.14 over a 730-hour month, nearly four times its $3.51 monthly price. Fixed-term billing is where the value is — the older Gen 1 VPS plans carry real annual discounts (up to 40% off, so a $10.53-per-month Cloud VPS 1 works out to $6.32 per month paid yearly) and include 5 TB of transfer instead of the Gen 2 plans' 1 TB. Current dedicated servers get roughly 15% off annual. Cherry also runs spot and outlet shelves: spot instances for interruptible work, outlet servers with older hardware at clearance prices. Extra egress beyond the included allowance is $0.50 per TB on dedicated plans, which is cheap enough that bandwidth overages are not a real risk factor here.

Two pricing traps we'd flag. First, hourly on the entry VPS plans is a trap in itself — if you leave a $0.018-per-hour instance up for a month you pay almost 4x the monthly rate, and there is no annual discount on Gen 2 to soften it. Second, stock varies by region: when we read the price data, the Gen 2 VPS plans were in stock in Lithuania and Chicago but out of stock in Singapore, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. Check the location you want before planning around it.

There is no free tier. What you do get is a 15-day money-back guarantee on dedicated plans, 20-plus payment methods including crypto, and a 99.97% uptime SLA published on the pricing page.

Performance & infrastructure

We have not benchmarked Cherry Servers ourselves, so we will not invent numbers. What we can say from the published material is that the network side is serious for a provider of this size. Each server gets up to 10 Gbps uplinks, 100 TB-plus of free egress on dedicated plans with unmetered ingress, and the backbone runs 100 Gbps-plus private links between European points of presence with direct peering at ERA-IX and NL-IX in Amsterdam, Netnode-IX in Stockholm, and MEGA-IX in Frankfurt. Published intra-Europe latencies are 7 ms Amsterdam-Frankfurt and 13 ms Šiauliai-Stockholm. Cherry supports BGP with bring-your-own-ASN and bring-your-own-IP (provider-announced /24s or customer-ASN announcements with ROAs), private VLANs per region, and floating IPs. That is operator-grade networking, and it is why companies like NOWNodes and Stakin run blockchain infrastructure here.

On features: every plan includes standard DDoS protection, with stronger optional protection available on floating IPs. IPv6 is free with a /64 per server (expandable to /56), but — important detail — only on dedicated bare metal. IPv6 is not available on VPS, VDS, or storage VPS. Snapshots and VM backups are a paid add-on product (backup storage starts at $3.50 per 50 GB per month and is free with dedicated servers), so do not assume backup is bundled with a cheap VPS. GPU servers are available as configurable bare metal, and there is a Web3/Solana angle — the EU sites connect to the DoubleZero network for validator workloads. Deployment times are advertised as roughly 3 minutes for VPS and 12 minutes for dedicated, though Trustpilot reviewers note that dedicated boxes sometimes take longer than the advertised window.

Where it falls short

The inconsistency across Cherry's own pages is the biggest transparency problem. Contradictory "from" prices on the same page and inconsistent billing-cycle documentation (the price switcher shows monthly/annual while the terms of service mention bi-annual billing) mean you should confirm the final number with support before you commit rather than trusting a search snippet. It is the kind of sloppiness that makes a price list less useful than it should be.

Beyond that: this is a small provider. There is no managed hosting tier to speak of — you get 24/7 technical support, but the servers are yours to run. The Gen 2 VPS plans, the cheapest ones, bundle only 1 TB of transfer on shared cores, which is thin compared to what some competitors include at the same price. Regional stock is uneven. And if you need APAC coverage, Singapore and Tokyo exist but get smaller traffic allowances and, per reviewer reports, less consistent stock than the European sites.

Who should pick this

We'd pick Cherry Servers when EU jurisdiction and bare metal control matter more than hyperscaler convenience. Blockchain node operators, trading and latency-sensitive workloads, EU agencies and GDPR-conscious companies, and teams that want to configure hardware (including GPUs) down to the component and pay by the hour during testing all fit. The VPS line is a decent budget option if you take monthly billing and watch the traffic cap.

We would look elsewhere if you need managed operations, a free tier for teaching, or global regions with uniform stock. Hetzner Cloud remains our pick for cheap general-purpose VMs in Europe; Cherry's edge is bare metal breadth and operator-level networking, not entry VPS.

Key takeaways

• Bootstrapped Lithuanian provider, incorporated 2001 in Šiauliai, with its own data center plus six colo locations across EU, US, and APAC.
• Transparent price lists: Cloud VPS from $3.51/month, outlet bare metal from $57.33/month, current bare metal from $174.33/month, all with hourly rates.
• Hourly billing costs roughly 4x monthly on entry plans — reserve it for migrations and short tests; fixed-term billing is where the discounts live.
• Strong network: 10 Gbps uplinks, 100 TB-plus free egress on dedicated, BGP/BYOIP, free IPv6 /64 per bare metal server (no IPv6 on VPS).
• 99.97% uptime SLA, ISO 27001 / SOC-attested sites, standard DDoS included; backups are a paid add-on except on dedicated servers.
• Their own pages disagree on entry prices ($3.51 vs $3.24 vs $5.83 on one page) — confirm pricing before ordering.

Sources

• https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing
• https://www.cherryservers.com/network/locations
• https://www.cherryservers.com/virtual-servers/cloud-vps
• https://www.cherryservers.com/bare-metal-dedicated-servers
• https://www.cherryservers.com/knowledge/docs/networking/ip-addressing/ipv6
• https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/cherry-servers-ipv6
• https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/cherry-servers-company-story
• https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/how-to-set-up-a-vps-server
• https://www.cherryservers.com/bare-metal-dedicated-servers/europe
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