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Debian VPS

Debian VPS hosting.

Debian is the quiet choice for servers: small base install, careful updates and years of security support. Start a Debian VPS in Europe and have a shell in front of you in minutes.

Create a VPSSee plans

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

Why a VPS for this

Stable by design

Debian stable only takes security and bug fixes between releases, so updates rarely change how your server behaves.

Small and lean

A minimal Debian install uses little memory, leaving more of a 2 GB plan for your own services.

Huge package archive

Tens of thousands of packages through apt, and most server software publishes a Debian package first.

Get started

  1. 01

    Create the VPS

    Pick a plan and Debian in the VPS panel. The panel shows your IPv6 address, your IPv4 address and your port block.

  2. 02

    Log in and update

    Connect with SSH on your SSH port, then run apt update && apt upgrade -y.

  3. 03

    Turn on automatic security updates

    Install them with apt install unattended-upgrades and enable them with dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades.

  4. 04

    Add a user and a firewall

    Create a sudo user with adduser and usermod -aG sudo, add your SSH key, then allow only the ports you use with nftables or ufw.

Which plan fits

VPS plans

VPS S (1 vCPU, 2 GB) runs a Debian server with a web app, a bot or a VPN comfortably. Move up to VPS M for Docker stacks or databases.

Fits this best

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.

Debian's SSH server listens on port 22 by default. Set Port in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to a port in your block if you want to reach it over IPv4 directly, or connect over IPv6 on 22.

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

The panel offers the current stable release when you create the VPS. You can upgrade between releases yourself with apt, like on any Debian machine.

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