servinga

What servinga actually is

servinga — the German provider our database still lists under its old slug and old name, VPS2day — is a Frankfurt-based infrastructure company selling prepaid KVM virtual servers. The company behind it, servinga GmbH, was established in April 2014 and founded as VPS2day by Christian Lertes and Adam Lakota; the rebrand to servinga kept the vps2day.com web estate alive in the background (their asset paths still point there), which is why older comparisons refer to VPS2day while every current page says servinga.

The important structural claim, and the one that corrects our old listing outright: this is not a reseller. servinga states it operates its own hardware and network infrastructure at all nine of its locations, and third-party directory records back the picture of a small, specialized in-house team rather than a storefront on someone else's nodes. Those nine locations are spread across Europe with a single US presence: Frankfurt (Germany), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Manchester (United Kingdom), Stockholm (Sweden), Canton Zug (Switzerland), Bucharest (Romania), Tallinn (Estonia), Barcelona (Spain), and Dallas, Texas. For a company of this size, that footprint is unusually wide — eight European countries plus Texas, and you can pick any of them at every plan tier without a location surcharge.

The product is deliberately simple. KVM virtualization on SSD/NVMe storage, full root access, one dedicated IPv4 and one IPv6 per standard instance, an included backup slot with auto-backup, provisioning in about 90 seconds, and prepaid monthly billing with no contract. Windows is available from the second tier up (it is excluded from the entry plan, where the license economics do not work). Beyond plain VPS, servinga sells an IPv6-only line from €3/month, a packaged dedicated-IP VPN node (WireGuard, OpenVPN, Outline, Mikrotik RouterOS pre-integrated), S3-compatible object storage from €10 per TB, dedicated servers, and a managed/proxmox segment. Our old listing missed most of that catalogue; the corrections below fix the record.

Pricing: what you really pay

Everything is published in euros, VAT-inclusive, and the ladder is short enough to hold in your head. VPS B1C1 is €5/month for 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD/NVMe, 2 TB of traffic on a 100 Mbit/s uplink (Linux only). B2C2 is €10/month for 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 50 GB, 4 TB on 200 Mbit/s and opens Windows. From there: B4C4 at €20/month (4 vCPU, 4 GB, 100 GB, 6 TB), B4C8 at €32/month (4 vCPU, 8 GB, 200 GB), B6C8 at €37/month (6 vCPU, 8 GB, 300 GB, 8 TB), B8C12 at €47/month (8 vCPU, 12 GB), B10C24 at €73/month (10 vCPU, 24 GB, 10 TB), and the top of the fixed line, B16C32, at €95/month for 16 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 300 GB storage, and 20 TB of traffic. Yearly billing saves 10 percent; a 48-hour money-back window is advertised on the regional pages.

À-la-carte upgrades are cheap and transparent: +1 CPU core for €3/month, +1 GB RAM for €3/month, an extra backup slot for €1/month, 1 TB extra traffic for €2/month, 5 TB for €10/month, and a gigabit uplink for €5 or €10/month depending on the plan. That is honest pricing — you can see exactly what each unit costs, and the one thing we look for in this class, a published overage policy, is there too: if you burn through the traffic quota, the server is not suspended. The port is temporarily reduced to 10 Mbit/s until the next cycle. We far prefer that to silent overage billing or a suspended box.

Value for money is good without being exceptional. In our April 2026 measurements, Hetzner's CX22 delivered 4,820 sysbench points and 42,000 fio IOPS at €4.35/month with 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM — measurably more machine than servinga's €5 entry plan, and the comparison table on /benchmarks makes the gap concrete. What servinga sells instead is location choice: Barcelona, Bucharest, Tallinn, and Zug are places Hetzner does not offer, and if your users are in southeastern Europe or you need Swiss jurisdiction, the premium over the German giants is small. The €3/month IPv6-only line is the genuinely sharp deal for anyone comfortable running without IPv4: same 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB / 2 TB, with an optional /64 subnet so each service can have its own public address.

Performance & infrastructure

servinga runs KVM throughout — real hardware virtualization with your own kernel, not container slices — on SSD/NVMe storage and what it describes as enterprise-grade hardware in certified datacenters. The network is their own at every location; the Frankfurt and Dallas pages list the upstream mix explicitly (Deutsche Telekom, NTT, Telia, Level(3), DE-CIX, AMS-IX, LINX and ECIX in Germany; Hibernia, Level(3), NL-IX, Cogent, Global Crossing and AMS-IX in the Netherlands). For a mid-size operator, publishing the transit and peering list is a good transparency signal — it is the kind of detail we weigh more heavily than adjectives.

Two limits are printed on the pricing page and worth internalizing before you buy. First, the uplink per instance is capped: 100 Mbit/s on the entry plan, 200 Mbit/s mid-range, 500 Mbit/s on the top tiers, with a paid gigabit upgrade. These are not gigabit-native nodes, so bulk transfer and backup replication will be port-bound well before they are CPU-bound. Second, there is no published CPU model or clock speed anywhere in the plan table. We do not know what silicon these vCPUs sit on, and we have not benchmarked servinga ourselves, so we will not put numbers on it — our dated hands-on results cover Hetzner Cloud, DigitalOcean, UpCloud, Vultr, and Linode only.

What we can say in editorial terms: the design of the platform favors predictability over raw speed. Guaranteed resources per plan, fixed uplinks, an explicit throttle-not-suspend traffic policy, auto-backup slots included, and 24x7 platform monitoring. Storage redundancy and snapshot restore are part of the standard panel (VNC console, IP management, one-click installs including HestiaCP for people who want a control panel). The company advertises over 99.9% availability in recent years and writes a 99.9% uptime SLA into its regional pages. That is an honest budget-tier SLA rather than the 99.99–100% paper promises of larger clouds, and we treat it as such: adequate for most projects, not for anything where an hour of downtime a month is unacceptable.

Where it falls short

The entry plan is thin even by budget standards: 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM with a 100 Mbit/s port is a single small site or a jump host, and Linux-only at that tier will frustrate anyone who wanted a cheap Windows box. Windows licensing effectively starts at €10/month on B2C2, which is no longer the bargain the tagline suggests.

The wider picture is scale and maturity. servinga is a small team running nine locations; that is impressive coverage for the size, but it also means each facility has less depth than a hyperscaler region — fewer capacity buffers, fewer adjacent services, and a support organization that is ticket-based rather than live-chat. There is a phone number and a 24/7 ticket desk, which is better than most hosts at this price, but nobody should expect the response times of a managed-service contract from a self-managed product. And it is explicitly self-managed: you harden, patch, and tune the OS yourself.

Two smaller gripes. The money-back window is 48 hours (two days per directory records) — too short to meaningfully load-test a server, unlike the 30-day windows common elsewhere. And while backups are included via the free slot with auto-backup, the recovery model is slot-based: serious backup hygiene means buying extra slots at €1/month each or pushing copies to their S3-compatible storage, which adds to the real monthly cost. Finally, the bandwidth caps deserve a second look before committing to the largest tiers: 20 TB at 500 Mbit/s is fine for most web workloads, but data-crunching or media-heavy pipelines may find the port speed the binding constraint.

Who should pick this

Our pick for European projects that need a specific country. If your audience or your compliance requirements put you in Spain, Romania, Estonia, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, or the UK — and you want a small German operator with its own hardware and a readable contract rather than a hyperscaler bill — servinga fits. The location list is its strongest card: eight European jurisdictions from one provider, at one price, with German data-protection handling. Regional businesses in the Balkans and Iberia, agencies hosting client sites close to home, and anyone needing Swiss or Estonian jurisdiction will find combinations here that Hetzner, Netcup, or OVHcloud simply do not sell.

It also suits people who value cost predictability: prepaid, no contract, published upgrade prices, and a throttle-not-suspend overage policy. The IPv6-only line at €3/month is a smart buy for VPN endpoints, labs, and reverse proxies, and the packaged VPN node product is a neat shortcut for remote workers who need a stable dedicated IP.

We would steer elsewhere two groups of buyers. Performance hunters should look at Hetzner Cloud, UpCloud, or the other providers we have actually measured on /benchmarks — you will get more compute per euro, especially at the 2–4 GB tier. And teams that need managed operations, phone escalation, or a large ecosystem of integrated services (managed databases, serverless, mature Kubernetes) should look at the bigger platforms; servinga's managed and Proxmox offerings exist but are a consultancy-style service, not a self-serve platform.

Key takeaways

• servinga (formerly VPS2day, founded April 2014 by Christian Lertes and Adam Lakota) is a German provider with its own hardware and network at 9 locations — 8 European countries plus Dallas — not a reseller as our old listing claimed.
• Published pricing is transparent and prepaid: from €5/month (1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB NVMe, 2 TB) up to €95/month (16 vCPU, 32 GB, 20 TB), with à-la-carte upgrades and 10% off yearly.
• The €3/month IPv6-only line (optional /64 subnet) is the sharpest deal for network-centric workloads.
• Standard plans include IPv4 + IPv6, KVM root access, an auto-backup slot, 90-second provisioning, and a 99.9% uptime SLA; traffic overages throttle to 10 Mbit/s instead of suspending.
• Limits: 100–500 Mbit/s uplinks (gigabit costs extra), no published CPU models, thin entry plan, 48-hour refund window, ticket-based support.
• In our view the pick for country-specific European hosting and predictable budgets; measured-value seekers get more compute per euro at Hetzner Cloud (see /benchmarks).

Sources

• https://servinga.com/cloud/vps-server/
• https://servinga.com/cloud/datacenters/united-states
• https://www.whtop.com/plans/servinga.com/143444