VPS in Germany paid with Bitcoin or Monero: Falkenstein and Nuremberg servers without an account

Why Germany is the default European location

Germany sits in the middle of the European network map. Frankfurt hosts DE-CIX, one of the largest internet exchanges in the world by traffic, and nearly every carrier and content network that matters in Europe peers there. A server a few milliseconds from Frankfurt reaches Amsterdam, Paris, London, Zurich, Vienna, Prague and Warsaw inside 25 ms and the whole of Western and Central Europe inside 35 ms. If you have a European audience and no strong regional skew, Germany is the location that is nearly right for everyone.

The legal environment is the second reason people ask for German hosting specifically. The GDPR applies as in every EU state, supplemented by the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), and German courts and regulators have a long record of taking data protection seriously. Germany is a member of the Fourteen Eyes arrangement, so it is not the jurisdiction of choice for someone whose main concern is intelligence sharing; Finland is the better pick for that. For everyone else, German datacenters offer a mature legal framework, excellent connectivity and the lowest prices in our line-up.

Falkenstein or Nuremberg

We offer two German locations: Falkenstein in Saxony (fsn1) and Nuremberg in Bavaria (nbg1). They are about 200 km apart and roughly 3 ms from each other over fibre. Both are the same price for every plan, both offer every plan family, and both land in the same carrier neighbourhood around Frankfurt. For a single server the honest advice is: pick whichever has the plan you want in stock, and if both do, pick Falkenstein for Northern and Eastern Europe and Nuremberg for Southern Europe and Austria, and do not expect to notice the difference.

Where two locations earn their keep is redundancy. A primary in Falkenstein and a replica or backup target in Nuremberg gives you two physical sites, two power grids and two sets of network edge inside the same country and the same price list, with low enough latency between them for synchronous database replication. Add Helsinki as a third site if you also want a second legal jurisdiction.

• Falkenstein (fsn1): Frankfurt 5 to 10 ms, Berlin 10 to 15 ms, Prague 10 to 15 ms, Amsterdam 12 to 20 ms, Vienna 10 to 20 ms, Warsaw 20 to 30 ms, London 15 to 25 ms, Paris 15 to 25 ms, Milan 15 to 25 ms, Helsinki about 25 ms.
• Nuremberg (nbg1): Munich under 5 ms, Frankfurt 5 to 10 ms, Vienna and Zurich 10 to 15 ms, Milan 15 to 20 ms; otherwise within 2 to 3 ms of the Falkenstein figures.
• Both: New York 85 to 100 ms, Ashburn roughly 95 to 105 ms, US West Coast 150 to 165 ms, Singapore 160 to 180 ms, Tokyo 230 to 260 ms.

# Compare the two German sites from your own network. Both ship the same
# images, so a one-day box in each is the cheapest honest benchmark.
for h in YOUR.FSN1.IP YOUR.NBG1.IP; do
  printf '%s: ' "$h"; ping -c 20 -q "$h" | tail -n 1
done

Plans and prices in Germany

Germany carries the European price, which is the lowest for every plan we sell. All four families are available in both Falkenstein and Nuremberg. Prices are USD per month; prepaid servers are billed per day at the monthly rate divided by 30, and the same price applies whether you pay in Bitcoin, Monero, another coin or by card.

Larger sizes (BVX51, BVX32 to BVX62, BVA41, BVG53 and BVG63 up to 48 dedicated cores and 192 GB) are on the pricing page. Every plan includes 20 TB of outbound traffic per month, inbound free, one IPv4 plus IPv6, and NVMe storage. Extra IPv4 addresses and automated daily backups are optional add-ons prepaid for the same period as the server.

German law in practice for a VPS tenant

Keep this section in proportion: renting a virtual machine in Germany does not make you subject to German regulation in general. A few things are worth knowing.

• GDPR and BDSG apply to whoever processes personal data, not to the hardware. If you host EU residents’ data you have obligations wherever your server is; a German location keeps the data inside the EU and avoids the international-transfer paperwork.
• The EU Digital Services Act, implemented in Germany by the Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz since May 2024, puts notice-and-action duties on hosting providers and online platforms. As a VPS customer you only inherit those duties if what you run is itself a hosting service or platform for third parties. The older NetzDG was replaced by this framework.
• If you operate a commercial website or service aimed at Germany, German law expects a provider identification (Impressum) on it. That follows from targeting German users, not from the server location; a German IP alone does not create the obligation.
• Abuse complaints to German datacenters are taken seriously and acted on quickly. Our Acceptable Use Policy is the same everywhere: no cryptocurrency mining, no spam, no scanning or DDoS, no Tor exits. Tor relays and bridges are fine.
• Germany is in Central European Time, UTC+1 in winter and UTC+2 in summer (Europe/Berlin). Server images boot on UTC; keep them there unless you have a reason not to.

What Germany is good for

• Anything with a pan-European audience: web apps, APIs, Matrix or XMPP servers, Nextcloud, mail, game servers for EU players.
• Bitcoin and Monero nodes on the Arm plans, where the price per gigabyte of RAM is lowest. The node guides assume a German or Finnish Arm server.
• WireGuard or OpenVPN endpoints that should exit from an EU IP address, for travellers or for reaching EU-only content.
• Build and CI runners on the BVG dedicated plans, rented by the day when a release needs them and allowed to expire afterwards.
• Tor middle relays and bridges. Germany hosts a large share of the Tor network and the bandwidth allowance (20 TB a month) is more than a relay on these plans will push.

Ordering with Bitcoin, Monero or card

On the configure page choose a plan, then Falkenstein or Nuremberg, then an operating system (Ubuntu 24.04 is the default). Pick the number of prepaid days, add an SSH public key if you have one, enter an email for the access link and select Crypto or Card. Crypto orders are always prepaid and each coin has a small minimum of a few dollars; cards start at $0.50 and can also be set up as a monthly subscription. Bitcoin deploys after on-chain confirmation, usually 10 to 30 minutes; Monero, Ethereum and Solana within a few minutes; cards in about a minute. The access link gives you the root password or confirms your key, a browser console, reinstall, power control and the extend button. Ordering and management also work over the site’s onion address.

Which plan to pick

Start with BVX11 at $10 or BVCX23 at $11 for a VPN, a small site or a test environment; move to BVA21 at $20 for a node or anything that wants 8 GB of RAM cheaply; use BVG13 or BVG23 when the workload needs cores that are never shared. Pick Falkenstein unless you have a reason to prefer Nuremberg, or use both. Configure a server, choose Germany, and pay in whichever currency suits you; the price is the same for all of them.