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SITE 40 · IST1 · Middle East · AS212345

VPS IstanbulTürkiye

Where two continents meet the IX.

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Live since
2025
Median RTT
3ms
Edge capacity
0.26Tbit/s
from
€1.90/mo
Facility
IST1 — Maslak
Certification
Tier III
Carriers
Arelion
Peering
DE-CIX Istanbul
Test IP
203.0.138.10
Stock
In stock

SITE DOSSIER · IST1

Why Istanbul?

Istanbul, live since 2025, is in IST1 in Maslak, the business district on the city's European bank. We joined DE-CIX Istanbul with Arelion as our single carrier, and the first test instance answered Vienna at 15 ms — a number that settled the continent question the way only a round trip can: from here, Europe is close and Asia is closer.

The site carries 0.26 Tbit/s of edge capacity at a 3 ms local median, with 34 ms to Frankfurt, 41 to Dubai and 78 to Mumbai. It is where two continents meet the IX: a rack for the region between the EU and the Gulf that used to route its traffic through both, and now needs neither.

FLEET · RATE CARD

Plans in Istanbul

Every plan in the catalogue, at the same price as everywhere else. A server here provisions in about fifty-five seconds.

PART EVPS-NANO · REV. D

I Nano

€1.90/mo

billed €€22.80 once· save 21% vs 6-month

vCPU
1 × EPYC
Memory
2 GB DDR5
Storage
25 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic
2 TB
Port
1 Gbit/s

Typically used forSmall website · Personal VPN · DNS or monitoring box · Light cron jobs

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PART EVPS-MICRO · REV. D

II Micro

€3.10/mo

billed €€37.20 once· save 21% vs 6-month

vCPU
2 × EPYC
Memory
4 GB DDR5
Storage
50 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic
4 TB
Port
1 Gbit/s

Typically used forDiscord or Telegram bot · Mail server · Home lab jump host · Small website

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PART EVPS-BASE · REV. D

Most chosen

III Base

€5.50/mo

billed €€66.00 once· save 20% vs 6-month

vCPU
4 × EPYC
Memory
8 GB DDR5
Storage
100 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic
8 TB
Port
2.5 Gbit/s

Typically used forDocker stack · Nextcloud · Staging server · Game server

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PART EVPS-WORK · REV. D

IV Work

€10.40/mo

billed €€124.80 once· save 19% vs 6-month

vCPU
6 × EPYC
Memory
16 GB DDR5
Storage
200 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic
12 TB
Port
2.5 Gbit/s

Typically used forProduction web app · Postgres primary · CI runner · Scraping

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TELECOM SURVEY · 90-DAY MEDIAN

Latency from Istanbul

Median round-trip time to major cities, measured hourly from this site over the last 90 days. The bar is width-proportional; 200 ms fills the track.

Vienna15 ms
Frankfurt34 ms
London40 ms
Dubai41 ms
Paris42 ms
Amsterdam43 ms
Mumbai78 ms
Singapore118 ms

SCALE · 0–200 MS · DE-CIX Istanbul

The hardware behind every server

CPU
AMD EPYC 9354P · 3.80 GHz boost
Memory
384 GB DDR5-4800 ECC per host
Storage
Samsung PM9A3 Gen4 NVMe, RAID-10
Network
2 × 25 GbE LACP to separate leaves
Power
A+B feeds, 72 h diesel autonomy
Hypervisor
KVM on Linux 6.12 LTS
Oversubscription
3:1 fair-share · 1:1 dedicated

Identical spec sheet in all 41 sites — the only thing that changes between locations is the sign on the building.

ADJACENT SHEETS

Nearby regions

Eight sites to compare this one against. If a shorter hop changes the answer, the math is the same everywhere.

Dubai

4 ms

United Arab Emirates

DXB1 · Middle East

Riyadh

5 ms

Saudi Arabia

RUH1 · Middle East

Frankfurt

1 ms

Germany

FRA4 · Europe

New York

1 ms

United States

NYC2 · Americas

Ashburn

1 ms

United States

IAD1 · Americas

Düsseldorf

2 ms

Germany

DUS1 · Europe

Amsterdam

2 ms

Netherlands

AMS1 · Europe

London

2 ms

United Kingdom

LON2 · Europe

Q&A · VER. 4.2

Questions about Istanbul

The two answers people actually ask about this site, then the five we give everywhere.

This site

Is Istanbul in Europe or Asia for latency purposes?
Both, which is the point of the site: the rack sits on the European bank of the Bosphorus, and from there Frankfurt answers at 34 ms while Dubai answers at 41. No other site in the catalogue splits its fast paths across two continents this evenly — 15 ms to Vienna for the EU side and 78 ms to Mumbai for the east. That is what 'between' looks like when it is measured.
Istanbul or Dubai for the Middle East?
Draw the line at the Gulf. Dubai reaches Riyadh at 14 ms and Mumbai at 33, and remains the hub for the Gulf states proper — but it needs 91 ms to reach Frankfurt. Istanbul reaches Frankfurt at 34 ms and Vienna at 15, which makes it the right site when your users sit in Türkiye, the Caucasus or the Balkans, or when your traffic wants one foot in Europe's latency and one in the Gulf's.

Everywhere

Which region should I pick?
Measure, then read. Median RTT decides most cases: pick the site closest to the users you already have, then check the local law if that matters to your data. We do not charge a regional premium, so the decision is never financial.
Is the price the same in every location?
Yes. A Nano costs €1.90 per month in Frankfurt and in São Paulo. There is no regional pricing tier, no 'emerging market' discount and no 'premium location' markup to optimise around.
Can I move a server to another site later?
Take a snapshot, deploy the same image at the destination, restore, update the DNS. The console does not yet automate the migration end-to-end, but nothing about the price changes if you redeploy somewhere else.
Is DDoS protection included?
Standard volumetric filtering is always on and always free at every site. If you need application-layer scrubbing with custom rules, the Advanced tier costs €3.90 per month per server.
What IP addresses do I get?
Every server ships with one dedicated IPv4 and a routed /64 of IPv6, both announced from the site you chose. Additional IPv4s are €1.20 per month each, up to eight per server.

Payments from Türkiye

Orders from Türkiye are handled exactly like every other order: checkout in euros, payment in Bitcoin, Monero or any of twenty-four assets, and the server provisions on the first network confirmation. No card, no bank, no name that has to match one.

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Two decisions, then a network

Pick a size, pick a site, pay in crypto. Moving later is one snapshot and a redeploy away.

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