VPS Netherlands: KVM servers in Amsterdam

VPS Netherlands: a KVM server in Amsterdam

RS Computers runs VPS hosting in the Netherlands from Amsterdam, next to our own data centre in Prishtina and a third location in Dublin. A Netherlands VPS from us is a KVM virtual machine with NVMe storage, a dedicated IPv4 address plus IPv6, unmetered traffic and full root access, or administrator access on Windows Server. The six plans above cost the same in every location, so the real question on this page is whether Amsterdam is the right city for your server. For projects aimed at Western and Central Europe, or at users you cannot place yet, it usually is.

RS Computers LLC was founded in Kosovo in 2018 and opened the Amsterdam and Dublin locations in 2026. The same team runs all three.

Why Amsterdam works for a European VPS

Most of the answer is one organisation: AMS-IX, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. It started in 1994, when academic networks at Amsterdam's Science Park wanted to swap traffic directly, and it grew into one of the largest internet exchange points in the world, with equipment in 16 data centres across the Netherlands (AMS-IX, 30 years of AMS-IX). When we checked in October 2026, the AMS-IX website listed 903 connected networks and a traffic peak of about 15 Tb/s. With that many ISPs, carriers and content networks present in one city, a packet between a server in Amsterdam and a visitor elsewhere in Europe has a good chance of taking a short path.

Distance still sets a limit that no provider can buy its way past. Light in single-mode fibre covers a kilometre in about 4.9 microseconds (M2 Optics), which comes to roughly 1 ms of round trip for every 100 km of cable. Cables do not follow straight lines and every router adds a little, so real pings sit above that floor. The rule is still useful: it tells you what any host in any city can and cannot deliver.

Measured latency to our Amsterdam server

We measured on 6 October 2026 with ping.pe, a public tool that pings an address from probes in many cities, and the last column shows the lowest of about 10 pings from each probe city to an RS Computers server in Amsterdam, with no packet loss; your own ping depends on your ISP. Next to it is the straight-line distance.

Probes in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Berlin and Manchester all reached the server in under 12 ms, the range where a web page feels instant and an SSH session feels local. Cable routes matter as much as kilometres: Stockholm answered faster than Warsaw, and Vienna faster than Dublin, although Dublin is closer. New York at 72.4 ms is fine for an API or a website with American visitors, less so for a game server aimed at them.

What people run on an Amsterdam VPS

A central location makes Amsterdam a sensible default when your users are spread across Europe. Typical jobs:

• Websites and web apps for a European audience, with HTTPS handled by a reverse proxy such as Caddy, Nginx or Traefik.
• An app, its database and a cache side by side in Docker containers on one server.
• Workflow automation with self-hosted n8n, so customer records and API keys stay on a machine inside the EU.
• Price monitors and research crawlers, where short round trips to Western European sites speed up every request. Read our guide to web scraping from a VPS before the first run.
• VPN endpoints, uptime probes and CI runners that need a fixed European IP address.
• A mail server, once port 25 and reverse DNS are set up as described below.

Netherlands VPS hosting and the GDPR

The Netherlands is an EU member state, so the General Data Protection Regulation applies directly, and the national supervisor is the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens). Personal data on an Amsterdam VPS is stored inside the Union, which keeps the question "where does our data live?" short.

Two points worth knowing before you order. RS Computers LLC is registered in Kosovo, outside the EU, and under GDPR Article 28 a hosting provider acts as your processor, so we sign a Data Processing Agreement with customers; send your compliance questions to us first. And the GDPR follows your organisation, not only the hardware: Article 3 covers processing by an EU establishment wherever it happens. A Dutch server helps, but your own records and contracts still matter.

Amsterdam, Prishtina or Dublin?

All three locations sell the same plans at the same prices, so choose by where your users and your data should be.

The Prishtina row in the latency table, 36.9 ms, shows the distance from Amsterdam to the Balkans; if most of your visitors are in Kosovo, a server in Prishtina sits much closer to them. You can also combine locations: run the main app in Amsterdam and keep a replica or an extra backup copy in Dublin or Prishtina, in another country.

What every Netherlands VPS includes

• KVM virtualisation with shared vCPUs and NVMe storage
• A dedicated IPv4 address plus IPv6
• Unmetered traffic over multi-carrier transit, on a 1 Gb/s port (VPS plans) or a 10 Gb/s port (VDS plans)
• Free weekly backups that you restore yourself from the client area
• Full root access, or administrator access on Windows Server
• A self-service panel to reboot, reinstall and open a 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 are available on VPS Mini and all three VDS plans; VPS Nano and VPS Micro are Linux only. If Windows is the main reason you are here, see Windows VPS with RDP.

From order to a working server

1. Pick a plan in the block above. It opens with the Netherlands already selected.
2. Choose the operating system at the configure step and pay. Deployment is automatic and usually takes minutes.
3. Log in with the root or administrator details from the client area, install updates and switch on a firewall before anything else.
4. If the server will send mail, set reverse DNS for its IPv4 address in the client area panel, then ask us on Telegram to open outbound port 25, which is blocked on every new server and opened on request.
5. Point your domain at the new address and put a reverse proxy in front of your apps.

Support answers on Telegram and by email, Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00, and the NOC watches the platform around the clock for emergencies. There is no phone line; Telegram is the fastest way to reach a person.

Running your own network?

RS Computers also has network presence in Amsterdam through an IP transit point of presence at Qupra Datacenter. If you operate your own AS and need transit rather than a virtual server, see IP transit.