VPS.bg

What VPS.bg actually is

VPS.bg (VPS.BG Ltd.) is a Bulgarian cloud provider with a sharper identity than most of the /category/vps-providers field: it sells itself as a privacy-first, sovereign cloud, and unlike most privacy pitches, this one is built into the plumbing. The company is registered in Sofia (UIC 203144520), privately owned and self-funded, has kept its data in Bulgaria since 2013, and has processed Bitcoin through its own self-hosted wallet since 2014 — no third-party payment gateway touches the transaction. The website runs no third-party cookies, signup requires minimal information with no ID or phone verification, and the stack is open-source and self-hosted. In our view this is the most coherent privacy posture of any small European host we list.

The product line is straightforward. Cloud VPS on KVM with AMD EPYC vCPUs and NVMe storage, with AMD SEV-SNP memory encryption available for confidential computing workloads — VM-level memory encryption with attestation, which is a feature normally found in the hyperscalers' confidential-computing lines, not in a €9.38/month VPS. Above that sit Virtual Dedicated Servers with dedicated EPYC cores (standard, memory-optimized up to 512 GB RAM, and storage-optimized up to 4.8 TB NVMe), Windows VPS with SPLA licensing, floating IPs, private networking (VPC), DDoS-protected IPs, and quote-based custom dedicated servers.

The infrastructure story is deliberately concentrated: everything lives in SDC, a carrier-neutral Tier III-class datacenter in Sofia — 2,200 sq.m., two independent power feeds each sized for full load, N+1 free-cooling, 72-hour diesel generators, 2(N+1) UPS, VESDA and IG55/FM200 fire suppression, individually lockable cabinets, 24/7 guarding. SDC is also the Bulgarian host of the NetIX internet exchange, and VPS.bg connects each server node with redundant 10 Gbps networking to Tier 1 providers, multiple IXPs, and direct CDN links. There is a public looking glass, which we always take as a good sign: the network team is willing to let you inspect it.

One datacenter is both the point and the limitation. This is a single-region platform for buyers who want Sofia specifically — Bulgarian and Balkan latency, EU legal geography under Bulgarian jurisdiction, GDPR compliance with a named data controller and a published DPA. It is not a global cloud, and anyone comparing it to multi-region providers on location count is comparing the wrong things.

Pricing: what you really pay

Cloud VPS pricing is published openly, with a 25% discount shown for annual commitment. The entry plan is 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe, 2 TB monthly bandwidth on a 1 Gbps port: €12.50/month at the monthly rate, €9.38/month billed annually. From there the ladder runs 1 vCPU/2 GB (€20 → €15.00), 2 vCPU/2 GB (€30 → €22.50), 2 vCPU/4 GB with 60 GB and 5 TB (€39 → €29.25), 2 vCPU/8 GB (€65 → €48.75), 4 vCPU/8 GB (€78 → €58.50), 4 vCPU/16 GB (€120 → €90), 8 vCPU/32 GB (€240 → €180), and the top fixed tier, 16 vCPU/64 GB with 400 GB NVMe and 50 TB on a 6 Gbps port, at €480 → €360/month. Prices exclude VAT.

The VDS range is where the dedicated-core value sits: 2 dedicated cores with 8 GB RAM from €100 → €75/month, scaling to 48 cores, 192 GB RAM, 1.2 TB NVMe at €2,400 → €1,800/month. Memory-optimized VDS doubles RAM (2 cores / 32 GB from €130 → €97.50, up to 32 cores / 512 GB at €2,080 → €1,560), and storage-optimized VDS runs from €185 → €138.75 up to 32 cores / 256 GB / 4.8 TB NVMe at €2,720 → €2,040/month.

Add-ons are itemized the way we like: automatic weekly backups at €0.05/GB with three weeks of retention, floating IPs at €3.50/IP/month (€10/IP/month for DDoS-protected floating IPs), 100 Mbps unmetered bandwidth free on most plans, 1 Gbps unmetered at €225/month, private networking free, and Windows Server 2022/2025 licensing at €5 per core per month. Note the structure: backups are paid, DDoS protection is paid, Windows is paid. The base price is not the whole price.

And the base price is not cheap. In our April 2026 measurements, Hetzner's CX22 — 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe — cost €4.35/month and returned 4,820 sysbench points and 42,000 fio IOPS. VPS.bg asks €9.38/month for half the RAM and half the storage. Dollar for dollar you get more machine elsewhere; the numbers on /benchmarks make no secret of that. What the premium buys is specific and worth naming: SEV-SNP confidential computing, Sofia placement, Bitcoin settlement with no third party in the loop, and a company whose terms are governed by Bulgarian law rather than a hyperscaler's. Those are features, not performance — and they are priced accordingly.

Two contract details from the terms worth knowing before you buy: cancellation within 15 days of first activation gets a full refund, and service disruptions caused by VPS.bg earn a pro-rated credit or refund on request. Billing cycles run monthly through annually on card or Bitcoin (Lightning accepted); bank wire by arrangement.

Performance & infrastructure

The hardware is current-generation: AMD EPYC CPUs with SEV-SNP support and NVMe SSDs across the Cloud VPS and VDS lines, KVM virtualization throughout, custom ISO upload, and one-click templates for WireGuard, Docker, Nextcloud, WordPress, LEMP, Webmin, MySQL, and CyberPanel. Linux coverage is modern (Debian 12/13, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Rocky 9/10, Fedora 43, AlmaLinux 9/10), Windows Server 2022 and 2025 are available with licensing under Microsoft SPLA, and the console handles deployment, monitoring, snapshots, and firewall rules — cloud firewalls being a recent addition. Port 25 is open on the default IP (blocked on floating IPs until you ask), which matters if you run your own mail.

The network deserves specific credit. Redundant 10 Gbps to each node, multiple Tier 1 upstreams, direct CDN peering, and a looking glass at lg.vpsbg.eu. DDoS mitigation is an optional product — DDoS-protected IPs claim 8 Tbps of capacity across 8 POPs, with optional layer-7 website filtering — and the FAQ is unusually honest about what happens without one: a non-protected IP under attack gets null-routed, automatically lifted after 10 minutes if the attack has stopped. This honesty is characteristic of VPS.bg's documentation generally.

We have not benchmarked VPS.bg, so we will not attach numbers to its EPYC nodes; our dated hands-on results cover Hetzner Cloud, DigitalOcean, UpCloud, Vultr, and Linode only. Editorial judgment: the platform design suggests solid, consistency-oriented engineering — dedicated-core VDS tiers for predictable performance, confidential computing options, low server density — but the entry Cloud VPS tiers are shared-vCPU and should be treated as such. The 99.99% uptime guarantee in the terms (hardware and network, excluding scheduled maintenance, with pro-rated credits) is more precise than most budget-tier language, and the facility's power track record backs it up.

Where it falls short

Price-performance is the headline weakness. At every tier, measured value leaders give you more compute per euro; if your workload is purely price-sensitive, this is the wrong shop. Backups cost extra (€0.05/GB weekly), DDoS protection costs extra from €10/IP/month, Windows licensing adds €5 per core per month, and 1 Gbps unmetered bandwidth is €225/month — by the time a plain VPS is production-ready, the real bill is meaningfully higher than the sticker.

Then there is geography. One datacenter means one failure domain, one latency story, and no deployment choice. For Bulgarian, Balkan, and southeastern-European audiences that is fine; for global or US-facing workloads it is a non-starter. The platform is also not automation-first in the way modern clouds are: the console is good, but there is no published public API, no Terraform provider in evidence, and fleet automation will feel limited to teams used to API-driven infrastructure. We also note the lack of a managed-service tier beyond paid support tasks (proactive monitoring, configuration, migration) — this is an unmanaged platform for hands-on operators, and the company says so explicitly.

Smaller friction points: prices exclude VAT, so the effective EU price is higher than listed; the terms reserve the right to change terms without notice; and support is ticket-based, in English and Bulgarian, with a 24-hour response target on standard plans rather than an escalation ladder.

Who should pick this

Our pick for privacy-sensitive and residency-sensitive projects in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. If your compliance story requires EU data residency in Bulgaria, if you want confidential computing with SEV-SNP memory encryption without a hyperscaler contract, if you need to pay with Bitcoin and prefer that no payment processor records the relationship, or if your users are in Sofia, Bucharest, Skopje, Thessaloniki, or Belgrade and you want the shortest possible path to them — VPS.bg is a genuinely differentiated choice, not just a cheap one.

It also suits technically self-sufficient operators who value documentation quality and honest policy statements: TOR exit nodes are allowed, DMCA is handled outside the strict US procedure, the DDoS behavior is documented rather than marketed, and there is a looking glass to verify network claims yourself. The VDS tiers with dedicated EPYC cores are sensible for databases and CPU-bound services that need predictable performance in the region.

We would pass if you are optimizing for raw price-per-compute, need multiple regions or US presence, want managed operations, or plan to run an API-driven fleet. For those cases the measured leaders on /benchmarks — Hetzner Cloud in Europe, UpCloud and Vultr further afield — deliver more for less.

Key takeaways

• VPS.bg (VPS.BG Ltd., Sofia) is a privacy-first sovereign cloud: self-funded since 2013, Bitcoin via its own wallet since 2014, no third-party cookies, minimal-information signup, GDPR/DPA published under Bulgarian law.
• Single datacenter (SDC Sofia, Tier III-class carrier-neutral, NetIX host) with redundant 10 Gbps per node — strong for Bulgaria and the Balkans, wrong for global workloads.
• Modern hardware: AMD EPYC with SEV-SNP confidential computing, NVMe, KVM; Cloud VPS from €9.38/month (annual) to €360, VDS with dedicated cores from €75/month.
• Backups (€0.05/GB), DDoS-protected IPs (from €10/IP/month, 8 Tbps across 8 POPs), and Windows licensing (€5/core/month) are paid add-ons — budget beyond the sticker price.
• Contract terms are unusually concrete: 99.99% uptime guarantee in writing with pro-rated credits, 15-day first-service refund, port 25 open on the default IP.
• In our view the pick for residency and privacy requirements in southeastern Europe; price-performance seekers get roughly twice the machine per euro at Hetzner Cloud (see /benchmarks).

Sources

• https://www.vpsbg.eu
• https://www.vpsbg.eu/pricing
• https://www.vpsbg.eu/cloud-vps
• https://www.vpsbg.eu/datacenter
• https://www.vpsbg.eu/faq
• https://www.vpsbg.eu/terms