Data centers · Europe
European dedicated serverThe Netherlands or Romania, one network.
A European dedicated server from Server Room is a whole physical machine in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, or Bucharest, Romania: every core, all the memory, the disks, root and an out-of-band console, on our own network with an unmetered port. Both halls are inside the EU and both bill in euro. A ready machine is handed over about 30 minutes after the order is approved.
- Single tenant
- Unmetered port
- Billed in euro
- Month to month
Amsterdam is the short path to Western and Northern Europe. Bucharest is closer to Romania and the South-East, and builds 17 hardware lines against Amsterdam's 6. Below, the two cities side by side, every EU machine ready to hand over, and every line we can build to order.
Side by side
Amsterdam and Bucharest servers, compared
Same network, the same price for the same part, the same euro invoice. What differs is the building, the distance to your users and the hardware each hall racks.
| Fact | Amsterdam | Bucharest |
|---|---|---|
| Building | Iron Mountain AMS-1, Haarlem, Netherlands | Feper Business Center, Bucharest, Romania |
| Who runs the room | Iron Mountain; our racks in a carrier-neutral building | We do. We designed and built the hall |
| Power | 2N/N+1, Tier III design | N+2 |
| Network | AS19624, transit from Cogent | AS19624 |
| Closest users | UK, Benelux, Germany, France, the Nordics | Romania and South-East Europe |
| Hardware lines | 6 | 17 |
| Memory up to | 1 TB | 2 TB |
| Fastest port | 100 Gbps | 100 Gbps |
| Smallest build | €46.18/mo | €5/mo |
| Test IP | 209.127.202.254 | 89.39.149.246 |
| City page | Amsterdam data center | Bucharest data center |
Amsterdam building figures are Iron Mountain's own, from its AMS-1 page. Line counts, memory and ports are read from the order catalogue.
Ready now
EU dedicated servers ready to hand over
Every machine in this list is racked in Amsterdam or Bucharest and prepared for handover. Prices are monthly, in euro. Pick one, choose the operating system, and it is yours about 30 minutes after approval. Approval is the payment and fraud check. A ready machine ordered as it stands pays no setup fee beyond its line's own.
Build to order
Every line we build in Europe
Need more memory, other drives or a faster port? Each row is the smallest complete machine on one hardware line, priced as a whole. Choose Amsterdam or Bucharest as the data center on the order sheet, then add parts: the price moves by exactly what you add. A custom build takes 4 to 24 hours and pays its line's setup fee once, or €29 where the line has none.
| Line | Smallest complete build | Cities | Per month | Configure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Opteron X2150 | AMD Opteron X2150 APU, 4 cores 1.1GHz · 8 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 32 GB · 500 Mbps | Bucharest | €5 | Configure |
| X-Gene ARM v8 64-bit | X-Gene Octa-Core ARM v8 64-bit · 32 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 120 GB · 500 Mbps | Bucharest | €28.59 | Configure |
| Intel Atom C2750 | Intel Atom C2750 Processor, 8 core 2.4 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA 500 GB · 500 Mbps | Bucharest | €34.40 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 | Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 Quad Core 2.90 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 500 Mbps | Amsterdam, Bucharest | €46.18 | Configure |
| AMD Opteron 6300 | AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA 500 GB · 500 Mbps | Bucharest | €51.86 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E3-1284L v3 | Intel Xeon E3-1284L v3 Quad Core 1.80 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 500 Mbps | Bucharest | €52.18 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 | Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | Amsterdam, Bucharest | €62.58 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon D-1500 | Intel Xeon D-1548 Octa Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | Amsterdam, Bucharest | €62.58 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E5-2600 v1/v2 | Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Bucharest | €70.93 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 | Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Amsterdam, Bucharest | €73.47 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon Silver / Gold | Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz · 16 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Amsterdam, Bucharest | €83.67 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E-2286M | Intel Xeon E-2286M 8 CORE 2.40 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | Bucharest | €105.99 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2 | 4 × Intel Xeon E5-4650L Octo Core 2.60 GHz · 64 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | Bucharest | €109.69 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4 | 4 × Intel Xeon E5-4650 v3 12 Core 2.10 GHz · 128 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Amsterdam, Bucharest | €186.37 | Configure |
| AMD EPYC | AMD EPYC 7413 24 CORE 2.65 GHz 128MB L3 CACHE · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | Bucharest | €217.59 | Configure |
| Ampere Altra Q64-22 | Ampere Altra Q64-22 2.2GHz 64 Core · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | Bucharest | €288.58 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon Gold | 4 × Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16 Core 2.10 GHz · 128 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | Bucharest | €409.38 | Configure |
Pay 3, 6 or 12 months ahead and the order sheet takes 5, 10 or 15 percent off. Every machine includes one IPv4 address. Every price here is read from the catalogue the checkout bills from.
Network
One network in both cities. Test it first.
Both halls sit on Server Room's own autonomous system, AS19624. The port is unmetered in both: run it at full speed all month and the bill stays the same, with no transfer cap and no overage charge.
Ready machines come with a 500 Mbps or 1 Gbps port, depending on the line. A 10 Gbps unshared port costs €529 a month on the lines that take one, and the 10 Gbps server page has the full ladder.
Ping or traceroute both test addresses from where your users are. The city that answers faster is the one to pick.
- Amsterdam test IP
- 209.127.202.254
- Amsterdam speed test
- speedtest-ams.serverroom.net
- Bucharest test IP
- 89.39.149.246
- Bucharest speed test
- speedtest-buc.serverroom.net
- Windows
- tracert 89.39.149.246
- macOS, Linux
- traceroute 209.127.202.254
What it runs
Operating systems, root and a console
Choose the operating system on the order sheet and it is installed before the password reaches you. How many images a line offers depends on the line: the widest carry Linux from Ubuntu 14.04 to 26.04, Windows Server from 2008 R2 to 2025, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Proxmox VE.
A Windows dedicated server adds a licence billed per core. Proxmox dedicated servers arrive with Proxmox VE 9 installed at build time, in both EU halls as in the US ones, and VMware servers covers vSphere. The Windows, vSphere and Proxmox images are x86 builds, so an ARM line boots Ubuntu and nothing else.
Root is yours from the first boot, and the hypervisor on the metal is the one you install. Every machine includes one IPv4 address; IPv6 is added at checkout, as individual addresses rather than a routed prefix.
Reaching the machine when the operating system will not boot
Every rack server and blade reports its out-of-band controller: HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC or a Supermicro BMC. Add a console login in the dashboard and it publishes a browser console, virtual media for your own ISO, power control, and hardware sensors and logs.
So a machine in Amsterdam or Bucharest is rebooted, installed from your own image and watched through boot from where you sit, without opening a ticket. On Moonshot cartridges other than the m510 and m710x the controller gives power control only.
Euro and VAT
Priced in euro, invoiced by an EU company
Everything ordered in Amsterdam or Bucharest is billed in euro, at the same figures our US cities bill in dollars. The invoice comes from Data Room SRL, the Romanian half of Server Room, registered in Bucharest.
- EU business with a VAT number. If the number is valid in VIES, you pay 0% under reverse charge.
- Other EU customers pay their own country's VAT. Romanian customers pay Romanian VAT.
- Outside the EU, no VAT is added.
- Monthly, no contract. Paying 3, 6 or 12 months ahead takes up to 15% off.
Where your data sits
The machine and its disks stay in the hall you choose, inside the EU. Romania has been a member state since 2007; the Netherlands was a founding member.
An EU location makes GDPR easier to reason about, because storing the data does not move it out of the Union. It does not make your processing compliant by itself. That part is still yours as the controller.
Choosing a city
Amsterdam, Bucharest, or neither
Pick Amsterdam
- Your users are in the UK, the Benelux, Germany, France or the Nordics.
- You want a large carrier-neutral building: AMS-1 hosts more than 60 carriers, with access to AMS-IX, NL-ix and NDIX.
- You encode video for viewers in Western Europe. The Moonshot m710x and m710p cartridges carry Intel Iris Pro graphics on the chip.
Pick Bucharest
- Your users are in Romania or South-East Europe.
- You need a line Amsterdam does not build: 4 × Intel Xeon Gold, Ampere Altra Q64-22, AMD EPYC, 4 × Intel Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2.
- Price comes first. The smallest Bucharest build is €5 a month, against €46.18 in Amsterdam.
- You want the room run by the company you rent from.
Look elsewhere
- Your audience is in North America. New York is one hop from most of the US East Coast.
- You want a virtual machine, not a whole server. See cloud VPS.
- You need several regions. All five locations lists test IPs for each.
Support
Answers in seconds, a person when you ask
Support starts with our AI on chat. It answers in seconds, at any hour, and it can check your account and your server while you wait. Ask for a person at any point and one joins the conversation.
Answers
European dedicated server questions
What is a European dedicated server?
A whole physical server in a data center inside the EU, rented to one customer. Ours are in Amsterdam and Bucharest. You get every core, all the memory and the disks, root access and an unmetered port. Nobody else runs on the machine.
How much does a dedicated server in Europe cost?
The smallest complete build is €5 a month in Bucharest and €46.18 in Amsterdam, plus a one-time setup fee. Machines ready to hand over are listed with their own prices. Everything is billed monthly in euro, and paying 3, 6 or 12 months ahead saves up to 15%.
How fast can I get an EU dedicated server?
A ready machine is handed over about 30 minutes after the order is approved. Approval is the payment and fraud check, and it is the part that varies. A machine built to order takes 4 to 24 hours.
Is the bandwidth unmetered in both cities?
Yes. Every line includes an unmetered port, with no transfer cap and no overage charge. A 10 Gbps unshared port costs €529 a month on the lines that take one.
Does an EU server make me GDPR compliant?
It helps, but it is not the whole answer. The machine and its disks stay in Amsterdam or Bucharest, so storing the data does not transfer it out of the EU. How you collect and process personal data is still your responsibility as the controller.
Do you charge VAT on European servers?
EU servers are invoiced in euro by Data Room SRL, our Romanian company. A business in another EU country with a VAT number valid in VIES pays 0% under reverse charge. Other EU customers pay their country's VAT, Romanian customers pay Romanian VAT, and customers outside the EU pay none.
Amsterdam or Bucharest: which is faster for my users?
Measure it. Ping 209.127.202.254 (Amsterdam) and 89.39.149.246 (Bucharest) from where your users are, or run the browser speed tests at speedtest-ams.serverroom.net and speedtest-buc.serverroom.net. As a rule, Western and Northern Europe are closer to Amsterdam, Romania and the South-East to Bucharest.
Which operating systems can I install?
Linux, Windows Server, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Proxmox VE, how many images depending on the line. The widest carry Ubuntu 14.04 to 26.04 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2025. You pick the image on the order sheet and it is installed before the password reaches you; a Windows dedicated server adds a licence billed per core. The Windows, vSphere and Proxmox images are x86 builds, so an ARM line boots Ubuntu and nothing else.
Can I reinstall or reboot the server myself?
Yes. Every rack server and blade reports an out-of-band controller, HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC or a Supermicro BMC. Add a console login in the dashboard and you get a browser console, virtual media for your own ISO, power control and hardware sensors, so a machine in Amsterdam or Bucharest is rebooted and reinstalled without a ticket. On Moonshot cartridges other than the m510 and m710x the controller gives power control only.
Is it bare metal or a VPS?
Bare metal. Every machine on this page is a whole physical server with no hypervisor of ours on it. You can install your own, Proxmox for example. For a virtual machine, see cloud VPS.
Who answers when something breaks?
Open the live chat. Our AI assistant answers in seconds and can check your account and your server, and a person from the team takes over the moment you ask. Service credits for downtime are set out in the service agreement.
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Pick the city, then the machine
Test both addresses, choose the hall your users are closest to, and take a ready server or build one to order.