VPS Ireland: KVM servers in Dublin, inside the EU

Ireland VPS hosting from RS Computers: what is included

RS Computers LLC is a hosting company founded in Kosovo in 2018. We run our own data centre in Prishtina plus server locations in Amsterdam and Dublin, and Dublin sells the same six plans at the same prices as the other two. Select Ireland in the location switch above and every plan card shows the Dublin version.

Each Dublin server comes with:

• KVM virtualisation with full root access on Linux, or administrator access on Windows Server
• NVMe storage and shared vCPUs
• A dedicated IPv4 address plus IPv6
• Unmetered traffic over multi-carrier transit
• Free weekly backups that you restore yourself from the client area
• A self-service panel to reboot, reinstall or open the console
• A 99% uptime SLA with service credits, and 24/7 NOC monitoring

Linux images include Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, among others. Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 run on VPS Mini and on every VDS plan; VPS Nano and VPS Micro are Linux only. The side-by-side comparison of all locations is on the VPS and VDS plans page.

How fast is a Dublin VPS from London, Paris and New York?

Distance sets the floor. Light in optical fibre needs roughly 5 microseconds per kilometre, as Lightwave explains, so every 100 km of cable adds about 1 ms to a round trip. Routing, peering and busy links add the rest.

Measured numbers beat maps. WonderNetwork pings between its test servers in cities around the world every hour and publishes the results. These are its averages from Dublin and from Amsterdam as published on 6 October 2026, rounded to whole milliseconds:

Sources: WonderNetwork pings from Dublin and from Amsterdam. These run between WonderNetwork's own servers, not ours, so read them as a picture of the region rather than a promise about your route.

Three things stand out. London is about 11 ms from Dublin and 10 ms from Amsterdam, close to a tie for UK visitors; over two weeks of hourly tests the Dublin to London pair never dropped below 10.3 ms. Mainland Europe is clearly nearer to Amsterdam, with Frankfurt and Warsaw at roughly half the delay. And North America favours Dublin less than the globe suggests: New York averaged 84 ms from Dublin and 76 ms from Amsterdam over the same period, because cable routes decide the result, not the map.

Where Dublin wins outright is Ireland itself. Cork, Galway and Limerick are a few hundred kilometres of fibre from the capital at most, worth a few milliseconds by the rule above, while Amsterdam sits beyond the Irish Sea and Great Britain. Dublin is also home to a lot of cloud infrastructure: data centres used 23% of Ireland's metered electricity in 2025, according to the Central Statistics Office, and AWS runs its Europe (Ireland) region, eu-west-1, in the country. An app on a Dublin VPS that calls APIs or storage in that region keeps those calls short.

Once your server is live, run ping and traceroute (tracert on Windows) against it from where your users actually are. That number counts more than any table.

Irish and EU data rules in plain terms

Ireland is an EU member state, so personal data on a Dublin server is processed in a country where the GDPR applies directly. The national regulator is the Data Protection Commission, which also acts as the EU lead supervisory authority for the many large technology companies that keep their European headquarters in Ireland, as the DPC itself notes.

The UK angle matters if your customers or your company are British. The European Commission renewed its adequacy decisions for the UK on 19 December 2025, and they now run until 27 December 2031, as the ICO confirms. In the other direction, the ICO lists every EEA country, Ireland included, as having full adequacy under UK GDPR. In practice a UK business can keep customer data on a Dublin VPS, inside the EU, and move it between the two countries without the extra contracts a transfer to a non-adequate country would need.

Server location is one part of compliance, not all of it. You still decide who can log in, what you encrypt and where your own copies end up. If your compliance review has questions for us as the hosting provider, send them by email or Telegram before you order. And whichever Ireland VPS you compare, check that the server itself is in Ireland and not in London or elsewhere, because that one detail decides whether the data sits inside the EU.

Dublin, Amsterdam or Prishtina?

All three locations sell identical plans, so choose by where your users are and which rules your data falls under.

• Choose Dublin for visitors in Ireland, for data that should stay in Ireland or the EU while you serve the UK, and for apps that talk to services in AWS eu-west-1.
• Choose Amsterdam for audiences across mainland Europe. In the measurements above it was about 11 ms from Frankfurt and 23 ms from Warsaw, against 26 and 44 ms from Dublin, and slightly ahead to New York.
• Choose Prishtina for users in Kosovo and the wider Balkans, served from our own data centre.

You do not have to pick only one. A production server in Dublin with a backup target in Amsterdam or Prishtina keeps a copy of your data in a second country, on a second network, at the same plan prices.

What runs well on an Irish VPS

A web shop for Irish customers

Shoppers feel every slow page, and a server a few milliseconds from Dublin, Cork or Galway takes distance out of the equation. Our guide to running WooCommerce or PrestaShop on a VPS covers the stack, caching and a launch checklist.

Team files that stay in the EU

Moving a small team off Google Drive or Dropbox is easier to justify when the new home is an EU country you can name. The Nextcloud on a VPS guide walks through a weekend migration, sizing and backups.

Your own mail server

Outbound port 25 is blocked on new servers to keep spam off the network; ask on Telegram and we open it. Set reverse DNS for your IPv4 address in the client area panel, or ask us on Telegram if the panel does not take it. Then follow the self-hosted mail server guide for mailcow, SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

Off-site backups in another city

The free weekly backups restore the whole server. A separate, append-only copy of your files in another city protects you from your own mistakes and from ransomware as well. The restic and Borg backup guide shows how to set one up, for example with Dublin backing up to Amsterdam.

Ordering and support

1. Select Ireland in the location switch at the top of this page and choose a plan.
2. Pick your operating system at the configure step: Linux on any plan, Windows Server on VPS Mini and the VDS plans.
3. Pay, and the server deploys automatically, usually within minutes, with root or administrator access.
4. Manage it from the client area: reboot, reinstall, console, reverse DNS and backup restores.

Questions reach a person on Telegram at @rscomputersks, the fastest way to contact us, or by email at info@rscomputers-ks.com for sales and support@rscomputers-ks.com for technical help. Support hours are Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 Central European time, and the NOC watches the network 24/7 for emergencies. We do not offer phone support.