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Docker VPS

Docker VPS hosting.

Run your docker compose stacks on a real KVM machine: no nested-container limits, overlay storage on NVMe and a kernel that supports everything Docker needs.

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Monthly, quarterly (5% off) or yearly (2 months free). Refunds within 72 hours of payment.

Why a VPS for this

Native Docker

KVM gives Docker its own kernel, so overlayfs, cgroups and networking work without workarounds.

Compose stacks

Bring your docker-compose.yml and run the whole stack: app, database, cache and workers.

Fast image pulls

NVMe storage keeps image extraction and container starts quick.

Get started

  1. 01

    Install Docker Engine

    On Debian or Ubuntu run curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh, which also installs the Compose plugin.

  2. 02

    Copy your stack

    Clone the repository with your compose.yaml and put secrets in an .env file.

  3. 03

    Map your ports

    Publish services on ports from your block, for example "40002:8080", and keep databases on the internal network.

  4. 04

    Start it

    Run docker compose up -d and set restart: unless-stopped so containers come back after a reboot.

Which plan fits

VPS plans

VPS M (2 vCPU, 4 GB) fits a typical compose stack with a database. Bigger stacks and build servers want VPS L.

VPS S

$1.96/mo

Billed monthly

  • 1 vCPU
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 30 GB NVMe
  • Shared IPv4, 20 ports
  • IPv6 address
  • KVM, full root

Dedicated IPv4: +$3/mo

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VPS M

$3.92/mo

Billed monthly

  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 60 GB NVMe
  • Shared IPv4, 20 ports
  • IPv6 address
  • KVM, full root

Dedicated IPv4: +$3/mo

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VPS L

$7.84/mo

Billed monthly

  • 4 vCPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 120 GB NVMe
  • Shared IPv4, 20 ports
  • IPv6 address
  • KVM, full root

Dedicated IPv4: +$3/mo

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VPS XL

$15.68/mo

Billed monthly

  • 6 vCPU
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 200 GB NVMe
  • Shared IPv4, 20 ports
  • IPv6 address
  • KVM, full root

Dedicated IPv4: +$3/mo

Create a VPS

Shared IPv4 with 20 ports and IPv6 included; dedicated IPv4 +$3/mo

Your VPS is usually ready in minutes. During busy times it may take up to 48 hours to create; you'll get an email the moment it's ready. The same goes for a dedicated IPv4 address.

NAT · IPv6

NAT IPv4 and IPv6, in plain words

How people and programs reach your VPS, and what that means for what you run on it.

IPv4: one shared address, 20 ports of your own

IPv4 addresses are scarce, so several VPSes share one public IPv4 address. Your VPS gets its own block of 20 ports on it. Traffic to those ports goes straight to your VPS. The panel shows your address and your port range.

IPv6: an address that is only yours

Your VPS also has its own public IPv6 address. Every port on it is yours, including 80 and 443, so a website or service can listen on its normal port.

Running a website

Ports 80 and 443 on the shared IPv4 address are not yours. Point your domain's AAAA record at your IPv6 address and put Cloudflare's proxy in front: it accepts IPv4 visitors and passes them to your VPS over IPv6. A tunnel such as Cloudflare Tunnel works too, or add a dedicated IPv4 for $3 a month.

Going out is not limited by the port block

The 20 ports are for incoming connections. Your VPS can reach the internet as usual: updates, APIs, Discord and Git all work without opening anything.

Docker publishes ports on all addresses by default. Publish only the ports you need, from your IPv4 block, and remember Docker's rules bypass ufw unless you bind to 127.0.0.1.

Example: SSH on the first port of your block looks like ssh -p 40001 root@203.0.113.10. Your real address and ports are in the panel.

Need a whole IPv4 address of your own? Add a dedicated IPv4 for $3 a month and every port on it is yours.

VPS questions

It is a full KVM virtual machine. You install Docker inside it, so there are none of the limits of running Docker inside a container.

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