WireGuard VPN server on your own VPS in Europe

A WireGuard VPN server is a Linux machine on the internet that your phone, laptop or office connects to through an encrypted tunnel, so your traffic leaves from the server's IP address instead of from whatever network you happen to be on. RS Computers rents you that machine: a KVM VPS in Prishtina, Amsterdam or Dublin with a dedicated IPv4 address plus IPv6, unmetered traffic and full root access. You install WireGuard yourself with our free WireGuard setup guide for Debian 13, which takes a fresh server to a connected phone in one sitting.

Your own WireGuard VPN server: what RS Computers provides

Every plan, from VPS Nano to VDS Large, comes with the same base in all three cities:

• A KVM virtual machine with its own kernel, NVMe storage and full root access
• A dedicated IPv4 address plus IPv6, assigned to your server and to nobody else
• Unmetered traffic, on a 1 Gb/s port for VPS plans and a 10 Gb/s port for VDS plans
• Free weekly backups you restore from the client area
• A panel with reboot, reinstall and a console that still reaches the server when a firewall rule locks out SSH
• A 99% monthly uptime SLA, with a service credit below 99% and a full refund for the month below 95%, plus 24/7 NOC monitoring

What we do not sell is a managed VPN. WireGuard is not preinstalled and there is no VPN dashboard: you run the server, which is the reason to have your own. If a step in the guide does not work, ask on Telegram, Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00.

Own VPN server or a VPN app: an honest comparison

A commercial VPN app gives you many countries for one subscription, behind addresses shared with other customers. A private VPN server gives you one address that only you use, under your control.

To be plain about it: your own server is not an anonymity tool. Every site you visit sees the same single address, that address belongs to a server rented in your name, and you are the operator who answers for what passes through it. If you need to disappear among thousands of users, a server of your own is the wrong choice.

The dedicated IP is why many people choose this route. Addresses shared by many strangers can trigger CAPTCHAs, extra login checks or blocks. VPN companies sell a "dedicated IP VPN" add-on for exactly this reason; on a VPS the dedicated IP is simply part of the server.

WireGuard or OpenVPN?

Both run on any of our plans, and you can install both on the same server. WireGuard is the newer protocol and the one our guide uses. The project states its aim to be faster and simpler than IPsec and to perform considerably better than OpenVPN, and its whitepaper describes a Linux implementation of less than 4,000 lines of code, small enough to audit.

The practical rule: start with WireGuard, and add OpenVPN on TCP 443 only if you often sit behind networks that block UDP. Expect it to be slower there: WireGuard refuses a TCP mode because TCP inside TCP performs badly, and OpenVPN itself prefers UDP.

WireGuard apps for every device

One server serves every device you own, each with its own key. The official clients are listed on the WireGuard install page:

• Windows 10 and 11, and Windows Server 2016 to 2025, from an installer on wireguard.com
• macOS, iPhone and iPad, from the App Store
• Android, from Google Play
• Linux, from the package manager of almost every distribution, plus FreeBSD and OpenBSD

Phones import their profile from a QR code and computers from a short text file. The guide shows both.

Prishtina, Amsterdam or Dublin: which city for your VPN

Choose by what you need the IP address for, then by distance: a VPN adds the round trip to the server to everything you do.

A VPS in Prishtina gives you a Kosovo IP address for online banking, government portals and office systems that expect a local connection while you are abroad. Data on that server falls under Kosovo's data-protection law, and our case for hosting in Kosovo explains the local peering behind it. A VPS in Amsterdam suits users in Germany, the Benelux, France and the UK who want a fast EU address. A VPS in Dublin is the natural pick for Ireland.

We measured these round trips on 6 October 2026 with ping.pe, keeping the lowest of about 10 pings per probe city; your own ping depends on your ISP. Plans and prices are the same in all three cities.

Remote team access and site-to-site links

Small companies use a VPN server as the single front door to internal tools: the database, the admin panel and SSH accept connections only from VPN addresses, so the public internet has nothing to knock on. Each employee gets a separate key, and when someone leaves you delete one peer.

The same works between sites. A router or small Linux box in the office joins the VPS as a WireGuard peer, the server routes between the office network and remote staff, and a second office joins the same way. Because the VPS has a fixed public IP, offices with changing addresses can always find it. For apps that also need public HTTPS, see our reverse proxy and SSL guide; to practise firewalls first, try the 30-day Linux lab.

VPN use and our Acceptable Use Policy

Personal and business VPNs are welcome on the RS Computers network. Our Acceptable Use Policy does not allow Tor relays, exit nodes, open proxies or similar anonymising services, so keep the server for you, your family or your organisation, not the public. Everything that leaves your server's IP must be lawful. Outbound port 25 is blocked on new servers; mail apps that send through your mail provider on port 587 are not affected.

From order to first connection

1. Choose a city and a plan in the cards above. VPS Nano is enough for a personal or family VPN.
2. Select Debian 13 at the configure step.
3. Pay. Deployment is automatic and usually done within minutes.
4. Follow the WireGuard guide to install the server and add your first device.
5. Search "what is my IP" on the device: it should show your server's address.

All six plans are compared on the VPS and VDS plans page.