Use cases
Hosting matched to your workload
Dedicated, EU-sovereign hosting matched to what you run — from AI/ML training and GPU compute to databases, streaming, and email infrastructure. Sized to your workload, with honest guidance on where we fit.
AI & GPU compute
- AI & ML training AI and ML training needs GPUs with enough memory for your models, fast interconnect to scale across them, and storage that can feed them without bottlenecking. Dedicated GPU servers suit sustained training better than on-demand cloud, and EU-hosted hardware keeps training data under European jurisdiction.
- AI inference AI inference — serving trained models in production — is bound by latency and throughput rather than raw training power. It needs enough memory to hold the model, the ability to scale with demand, and high availability. Steady production load favours dedicated servers, and EU hosting keeps live user data under European jurisdiction.
- LLM hosting Hosting an LLM means running a very large model in production, which is dominated by memory — the model weights plus the KV cache that grows with context length and concurrency. Large models often need high-memory or multiple GPUs. Self-hosting keeps prompts and outputs private and, in the EU, under European jurisdiction.
- Deep learning Deep learning trains and runs neural networks, which are computationally intensive and GPU-accelerated. Beyond GPUs, it needs a working software stack — frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow with matching drivers — and infrastructure spanning experimentation, training, and inference. Dedicated GPU servers suit sustained deep-learning work, hosted in the EU for data sovereignty.
- Machine learning pipelines A machine-learning pipeline is the end-to-end workflow that turns data into a deployed model and keeps it current — ingestion, processing, training, deployment, and monitoring. It needs mixed compute (CPU for data, GPU for training), orchestration to coordinate the stages, and storage for data flowing between them. EU hosting keeps the whole pipeline's data sovereign.
- ML platforms An ML platform is the shared, self-hosted infrastructure an organisation's teams run their machine-learning work on — a common pool of GPU compute, environments, storage, and orchestration serving many projects and pipelines. Sharing resources improves utilisation and cost, and self-hosting in the EU keeps the whole organisation's ML data under European jurisdiction.
HPC & scientific compute
- HPC clusters An HPC cluster links many compute nodes to solve large parallel problems — simulations, modelling, scientific computing. It is defined as much by fast, low-latency interconnect between nodes as by the cores themselves, plus high-throughput storage and job scheduling. Bare metal suits HPC for its full performance, and EU hosting keeps research data sovereign.
- Scientific computing Scientific computing runs the simulations, modelling, and numerical computation of research across disciplines. Its needs range from a single powerful server to a full cluster, matched to the problem, with reproducible environments, capable storage for research data, and predictable performance. EU hosting keeps research data under European jurisdiction and sovereignty requirements.
Finance & fintech
- Financial modelling Financial modelling runs compute-intensive numerical work — Monte Carlo simulations, risk models, pricing, and backtesting. It needs parallel compute sized to the models, capable storage for market and historical data, and reproducibility for audit. Financial data is highly regulated and confidential, which makes European sovereignty and data residency a real requirement.
- Low-latency trading Low-latency trading reacts to markets in microseconds, so latency dominates everything — physical proximity to the exchange, the network path, and the consistency of performance. It demands bare metal, tuned hardware, and low-latency networking, with jitter as the real enemy. Where it must sit inside a specific exchange, a colocated specialist may fit better.
- Fintech Fintech builds financial products — payments, lending, banking, investing — on infrastructure that must be reliable, secure, and compliant, because it handles money and sensitive financial data under heavy regulation. It needs high availability, strong security, and data sovereignty. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives fintechs the control and European jurisdiction their regulated work requires.
- Banking Banking runs on infrastructure held to the strictest standards — always-on availability, exact transaction integrity, strong security, and rigorous compliance — because it holds deposits and moves money under close regulation. It demands resilience, auditability, and data sovereignty. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives banks control and European jurisdiction; the core banking platform and licence remain the bank's own.
- Payment processing Payment processing handles transactions that must be fast, exact, and always available, under the strict security of PCI DSS for cardholder data. It needs high availability, low-latency authorisation, transaction integrity, and the ability to absorb spikes. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives control and European sovereignty; the payment gateway, PCI scope, and acquiring remain specialised.
Databases
- Database hosting Database hosting demands fast storage and ample memory, since databases are I/O- and memory-intensive, plus the reliability and durability that data everything depends on requires. It needs backups, replication for availability, and dedicated resources free of noisy neighbours. Self-hosting on dedicated, EU-hosted hardware gives control, performance, and European sovereignty over the data.
- PostgreSQL hosting PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source relational database valued for reliability, standards compliance, and extensibility. Hosting it well means tuning memory for caching and providing fast storage for its data and write-ahead log, plus replication for availability. Open-source with no licensing, self-hosted on dedicated EU hardware, it gives control, performance, and European sovereignty.
- MySQL hosting MySQL is one of the most widely used open-source relational databases, popular for web applications. Hosting it well means tuning its InnoDB buffer pool and memory, providing fast storage, and setting up replication for availability. Open-source, with the compatible MariaDB fork, self-hosted on dedicated EU hardware it gives control, performance, and European sovereignty.
- MongoDB hosting MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database storing flexible, JSON-like documents, suited to certain data and access patterns rather than the relational model. Hosting it well means ample memory for the working set, fast storage, replica sets for availability, and sharding for scale. Self-hosted on dedicated EU hardware, it gives control, performance, and European sovereignty.
- Redis hosting Redis is an in-memory data store, extremely fast because it keeps data in RAM, widely used for caching, sessions, queues, and real-time features. Hosting it well means ample memory — memory is everything — optional persistence for durability, and replication for availability. Self-hosted on dedicated EU hardware, Redis or its open-source fork Valkey gives speed, control, and sovereignty.
- ClickHouse hosting ClickHouse is a column-oriented OLAP database built for fast analytical queries over huge datasets — aggregations, real-time analytics, and log or event data. Its columnar storage and compression let it scan billions of rows quickly, rewarding many CPU cores, ample memory, and fast storage. Open-source and self-hosted on dedicated EU hardware, it gives performance, control, and sovereignty.
Big data & analytics
- Big data analytics Big data analytics processes datasets too large for a single machine, using distributed frameworks across a cluster. It needs storage with capacity and throughput for large data, many cores and ample memory across nodes, and infrastructure sized to sustained processing. Dedicated bare metal is economical for steady big-data work, and EU hosting keeps large datasets under European sovereignty.
- Data warehouse hosting A data warehouse is a central repository of integrated, structured data from across an organisation, optimised for analytical queries and business intelligence. It needs data integration, storage for historical data, and compute for fast analytical queries. Self-hosting an open warehouse engine on dedicated EU hardware gives control, performance, and European sovereignty over the organisation's integrated data.
- Apache Spark clusters Apache Spark is a distributed processing engine that runs analytics, batch, streaming, and machine-learning workloads fast across a cluster by processing data in memory. Hosting it well means ample memory — its speed depends on it — many cores across executors, and fast networking for shuffles. Dedicated bare metal suits sustained Spark work, and EU hosting keeps the data sovereign.
- Hadoop clusters Apache Hadoop is the foundational big data ecosystem — HDFS for distributed storage across a cluster, plus MapReduce and YARN for processing and resource management. Its HDFS storage remains widely used for huge datasets, while Spark often replaces MapReduce for processing. Storage-heavy clusters suit dedicated bare metal, and EU hosting keeps the data sovereign.
- Data pipelines A data pipeline moves and transforms data between systems — ingesting it from sources, transforming it, and delivering it to destinations, in batch or streaming. It needs orchestration to coordinate the flow, reliability so data isn't lost, and infrastructure to run the processing. Since the pipeline handles the data end to end, EU hosting keeps it under European sovereignty.
Web & apps
- Web hosting Web hosting runs websites and web applications, needing reliable uptime, fast performance, security against attacks, and the ability to scale with traffic. The right platform ranges from shared hosting to a VPS to a dedicated server, matched to the site. EU hosting keeps European sites' data — and their visitors' data — under European jurisdiction and GDPR.
- High-traffic websites A high-traffic website must stay fast and available under heavy load, which means scaling horizontally across multiple servers with load balancing, caching to reduce work, and often a CDN to offload static content. The database is frequently the bottleneck. Dedicated infrastructure sized for peak traffic, hosted in the EU, keeps a busy site fast and sovereign.
- WordPress on a VPS WordPress runs on PHP with a MySQL or MariaDB database, and a VPS gives it dedicated resources, control, and performance beyond shared hosting. Hosting it well means a tuned PHP-and-database stack, caching — page and object caching, often with Redis — and security, since WordPress is heavily targeted. EU hosting keeps a WordPress site's data under European jurisdiction and GDPR.
- E-commerce hosting E-commerce hosting runs online stores, where downtime is lost sales and slow pages mean abandoned carts, so availability and performance are critical. It must handle sales spikes, secure customer and payment data, and scale. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure keeps a store fast, available, and its customers' data sovereign; payment processing and PCI remain a shared, specialised concern.
- SaaS applications SaaS delivers software to many customers over the internet, so its infrastructure must be reliable — customers depend on it and expect SLAs — scalable as the customer base grows, secure, and able to serve many tenants with proper data isolation. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives a SaaS control, performance, and the European data sovereignty its customers increasingly require.
- API backends An API backend is the server-side infrastructure serving API requests to apps, mobile clients, and other services. It must respond with low latency, scale to handle many clients and requests, and stay reliable, since whatever calls it depends on it. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives an API backend performance, control, and European data sovereignty.
- Microservices hosting A microservices architecture builds an application as many small, independent services that communicate over the network. Hosting it means running many services — often in containers with orchestration — with fast inter-service networking, independent scaling, and resilience so one service's failure does not cascade. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives control, performance, and European sovereignty; microservices are not always simpler than a monolith.
- B2B SaaS B2B SaaS serves business customers who bring their own security, compliance, and data-residency requirements, so its infrastructure must meet a higher bar — reliable with SLAs, secure and demonstrably so, and often hosted under European sovereignty because customers require it. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure lets a B2B SaaS meet these demands and win customers who require European data sovereignty.
- SaaS backends A SaaS backend is the server-side powering a SaaS — the application tier serving requests, a multi-tenant data tier, background processing for asynchronous work, and caching. Each tier must scale with the customer base and stay reliable. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives a SaaS backend performance, control, and the European data sovereignty its customers require.
- Kubernetes hosting Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerised workloads across a cluster. Hosting it well often means bare metal — avoiding double virtualisation — with self-hosting giving control and European sovereignty over managed alternatives. Kubernetes is powerful but complex, so it is not always the right tool; where it fits, dedicated EU infrastructure suits it.
- Kubernetes clusters A Kubernetes cluster comprises a control plane — the API server, scheduler, controllers, and etcd that hold and drive the cluster's state — and worker nodes where containers run. It needs cluster networking, storage for stateful workloads, and, for resilience, a highly-available control plane. Dedicated bare-metal infrastructure in the EU gives a cluster full performance and European sovereignty.
- Docker hosting Docker packages applications with their dependencies into containers that run consistently anywhere, more efficiently than virtual machines. Running containers with Docker — and Docker Compose for multi-container apps — is often simpler than Kubernetes and enough for many workloads. Bare metal avoids double virtualisation. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives containers full performance, control, and European sovereignty.
- Container registries A container registry stores and distributes container images — the packaged applications that containers run. Self-hosting a private registry gives control over your images, avoids depending on public registries, and keeps proprietary images and their pull traffic on infrastructure you control. It needs storage capacity and fast pulls for deployments. EU hosting keeps your container images sovereign.
DevOps & CI/CD
- CI/CD pipelines A CI/CD pipeline automates building, testing, and deploying code, running jobs on runners that need compute for builds and tests. Fast pipelines mean fast feedback, and they scale to run many jobs in parallel. Self-hosted runners give control, cost efficiency, and sovereignty over source code and secrets. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure keeps a CI/CD pipeline's code and builds sovereign.
- Jenkins hosting Jenkins is a mature, open-source automation server for CI/CD, run as a controller coordinating agents that execute build and test jobs. Self-hosting it — its normal mode — gives control and sovereignty over builds and code. It needs a reliable controller and enough agent capacity for the job load. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure keeps a Jenkins setup performant and sovereign.
- GitLab Runner hosting GitLab Runner is the agent that executes GitLab CI/CD jobs, and hosting your own private runners gives control over the build environment, cost efficiency for heavy use, and sovereignty over your code and secrets — versus GitLab's shared runners. Runners need compute for builds and tests, scaled to the job load. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure keeps a runner's code and builds sovereign.
- Monitoring stacks A monitoring stack collects metrics, logs, and traces, stores them, and provides dashboards and alerting to observe systems. Its time-series data accumulates, so storage and retention matter, alongside compute for querying. Self-hosting gives control, cost efficiency, and sovereignty over operational data. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure keeps a monitoring stack's data sovereign and under your control.
- Log aggregation Log aggregation centralises logs from many systems into one place where they can be stored, searched, and analysed. Logs accumulate in high volume, so storage and retention are central, alongside fast search. Self-hosting gives control, cost efficiency at scale, and sovereignty over log data — which can contain sensitive information. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure keeps aggregated logs sovereign.
Virtualisation
- Proxmox virtualisation Proxmox VE is an open-source virtualisation platform running KVM virtual machines and LXC containers, with clustering, live migration, and high availability. Running it on a dedicated bare-metal server gives full-featured virtualisation with no licensing cost and complete control. Self-hosting on EU infrastructure keeps the virtualised workloads and their data sovereign, under European jurisdiction and your control.
- KVM virtualisation KVM is the virtualisation technology built into the Linux kernel, turning Linux into a hypervisor that runs virtual machines with near-native performance through hardware-assisted virtualisation. It is the open-source foundation many platforms build on. Running it on dedicated bare metal gives full performance and control; self-hosting on EU infrastructure keeps virtualised workloads sovereign.
- VMware virtualisation VMware is the long-established enterprise virtualisation platform — ESXi and vSphere — mature and feature-rich. Since Broadcom's acquisition it moved to subscription-only licensing in bundles with per-core minimums, raising costs and prompting many to evaluate alternatives. We host the bare-metal hardware to run VMware; the licensing is your own arrangement, and we also host open-source alternatives like Proxmox.
- Hyper-V virtualisation Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualisation platform, integrated with Windows Server, running Windows and Linux virtual machines. It suits Windows-centric environments, where its licensing comes with Windows Server, and offers live migration, failover clustering, and replication. We host the bare-metal hardware to run Hyper-V; the Windows Server licensing is your arrangement, and we also host open-source alternatives.
Streaming & media
- Video streaming Video streaming is bandwidth-heavy above all, needing the network capacity to deliver video to many viewers, plus transcoding to prepare video in multiple formats and bitrates, storage for large files, and delivery that often pairs origin infrastructure with a CDN. Dedicated, well-connected infrastructure handles the origin and transcoding; EU hosting keeps content and viewer data sovereign.
- Live streaming servers Live streaming delivers video in real time, so it must ingest the live feed, transcode it on the fly, and deliver it to viewers with low latency — close to real-time. It handles viewer spikes for events and cannot be redone if it fails, so reliability is critical. Well-connected, capable infrastructure handles ingest and transcoding; EU hosting keeps it sovereign.
- Video on demand Video on demand serves a library of pre-recorded video to viewers who watch what they want, when they want. It is storage-heavy — a library held in multiple qualities — with transcoding done in advance, and delivery via a CDN in front of the origin. Dedicated storage-rich, well-connected infrastructure holds and serves the library; EU hosting keeps content and viewer data sovereign.
- Video transcoding Video transcoding converts video into different formats, resolutions, and bitrates — the compute-intensive step behind adaptive streaming. It is far faster and more efficient on GPUs than CPUs, and can run in batch for on-demand content or in real time for live. Dedicated GPU-accelerated infrastructure handles transcoding at scale; EU hosting keeps the content sovereign.
- OTT platforms An OTT platform is a complete streaming media service delivered over the internet — combining an on-demand library, live channels, multi-device apps, user accounts and subscriptions, and content protection. It brings together storage, transcoding, delivery, and a platform backend at scale. Dedicated, well-connected, EU-hosted infrastructure handles the origin, transcoding, and backend, keeping content and subscriber data sovereign.
Gaming
- Game server hosting Game server hosting for multiplayer games is latency-critical — players need low ping, so servers must be well-connected and near players. It rewards strong per-core CPU performance, needs strong DDoS protection since games are heavily targeted, and must stay reliable during play. Bare metal gives full, consistent performance. Dedicated, well-connected EU infrastructure keeps game servers fast and player data sovereign.
- Game backends A game backend is the online services behind a game — player accounts, matchmaking, progression and inventory persistence, leaderboards, and in-game economy. It is a scalable application-and-database backend that must handle the player base, stay reliable, and often absorb launch spikes. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure gives it performance, scalability, and European sovereignty over player data.
- Gaming Gaming — studios and publishers running online games — needs infrastructure across the whole operation: low-latency game servers, scalable backends, strong DDoS protection, and the ability to absorb the dramatic spikes games bring. Dedicated, well-connected, bare-metal infrastructure delivers the performance and economics sustained game operations need, and EU hosting keeps player data sovereign.
- Minecraft server hosting A Minecraft server is memory-hungry and largely single-threaded, so RAM and strong per-core CPU performance matter most, along with fast storage for the world. Small servers suit a VPS; larger or modded ones need a dedicated server. We provide VPS and dedicated hosting with the RAM and per-core performance Minecraft needs; EU hosting keeps it well-placed and sovereign.
CDN & delivery
- CDN origin hosting A CDN origin is the authoritative source a content delivery network pulls content from — the CDN caches and serves it to users, but the origin holds the truth and serves what is not cached. So the origin must be reliable, well-connected, and capable, since its failures affect everything. We host dedicated, EU-sovereign origin infrastructure; the CDN works in front of it.
- CDN provider infrastructure Building a content delivery network means running caching edge nodes in many locations, each needing fast storage, heavy bandwidth, good connectivity, and strong performance to serve users nearby. It is a substantial undertaking. We provide powerful, well-connected servers that make capable CDN nodes in our locations, with the bandwidth caching demands — a strong European foundation, though not a turnkey global CDN.
VPN & networking
- VPN server hosting A VPN server provides an encrypted tunnel for secure, private network access — self-hosting your own gives you a VPN under your control, with an IP you hold, for secure remote access to your resources or private browsing. It needs bandwidth and some compute for encryption. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure keeps your own VPN server sovereign and under your control.
- WireGuard VPN hosting WireGuard is a modern VPN protocol that is fast, lean, and simple — built into the Linux kernel, using modern cryptography and a peer model with minimal configuration. Its efficiency means low overhead and strong performance. It suits secure access, site-to-site links, and private routing. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure runs a self-hosted WireGuard server sovereignly and under your control.
- OpenVPN hosting OpenVPN is a mature, flexible, highly-configurable VPN protocol, used for years and widely supported. It can run over TCP on common ports to traverse restrictive networks, uses certificate-based authentication, and adapts to many needs. It is heavier than WireGuard but more flexible. Dedicated, EU-hosted infrastructure runs a self-hosted OpenVPN server sovereignly and under your control.
- VPN provider infrastructure Running a commercial VPN service means operating many high-bandwidth servers across locations, each carrying users' traffic, with the network and capacity to serve a large user base. Bandwidth is the dominant cost. We provide powerful, high-bandwidth, well-connected servers that make strong VPN nodes in our locations — a capable European foundation, under EU jurisdiction, though not a turnkey global VPN network.
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