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dataforest cloud has launched GPU Seeds, cloud servers with one, two, four or eight dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. They are billed by the hour with no minimum term and no setup fee. GPU Seeds are currently available in Frankfurt, Germany.

Seeds are the platform's virtual servers. A GPU Seed is a Seed with one or more GPUs attached by PCIe passthrough. Each card belongs to a single Seed and is neither shared nor partitioned. The... (continued)

Melbicom, an EU-headquartered infrastructure provider based in Vilnius, Lithuania, opened a new location in Marseille, France (MRS1) in September 2026. Linux and Windows Cloud VPS, dedicated servers and custom server builds can now be ordered in Marseille, which has also been added as a point of presence on Melbicom's Premium and Volume CDN networks.

Facility and network

MRS1 is a Tier III data center with 13,500 m² of space and 16 MW of power. Melbicom connects there to the France-IX... (continued)

my.host, a well established provider from the Netherlands with data center locations in Belgium, Ireland and NL, had its very first performance trial a few weeks ago. It tested VPS ran on a AMD EPYC 4585PX CPU with 4GB RAM and the VPS cost was 12.50€/month. All my.host VPS come with 10Gbps DDoS protection.

dataforest cloud has launched Block Storage for its cloud servers. The service provides volumes that attach to a server as additional disks, so customers can increase their storage without upgrading to a larger plan.

The data on a volume stays intact when the server is reinstalled or deleted, and the volume can be moved to another server in the same location.

All volumes are triple-replicated on NVMe SSDs using Ceph. Each copy is kept on a different storage server, so... (continued)

Contabo has introduced GPU VPS, its first product to include a dedicated NVIDIA GPU. Each instance is allocated one dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 built on the Blackwell architecture, with 96 GB of GDDR7 VRAM and 24,064 CUDA cores. 

The fifth-generation Tensor Cores on the card include FP4 precision support, which allows larger models to run without splitting across multiple instances. The 96 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient to hold a 70-billion-parameter model on a single card. 

Each GPU VPS... (continued)

Liga Hosting is a young provider headquartered in the UK with two locations: one in Germany and one in Romania. The VPS tested in the first Liga Hosting trial belongs to the VPS Performance product line based on Ryzen 9 9950X CPU hardware. The VPS Performance S features 2 vCPUs and 4GB RAM for 10€/month, it comes with DDoS protection and NVMe storage. The second VPS line is called VPS Standard and starts at 2.50€ for 1 vCPU and 2GB... (continued)

dataforest cloud is a self-service cloud platform based in Germany that went live in January 2026. It currently runs one region, fra01, in Frankfurt, and further locations will follow customer demand, with a focus on Europe.

The platform's virtual servers are called Seeds. They run on KVM, are provisioned in seconds and billed by the hour with no minimum term, and their storage sits on a Ceph cluster that keeps three replicas on separate storage servers.

Seeds come in three... (continued)

VPSLab has launched a new Ryzen VPS hosting line based on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processors and Zen 5 architecture. The new VPS plans are designed around dedicated CPU cores, DDR5 ECC memory, NVMe Gen4 storage, and 10 Gbit/s network ports.

The Ryzen VPS line uses AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processors with up to 5.7 GHz boost clocks, 16 cores and 32 threads. VPSLab states that CPU cores are pinned to individual VPS instances through KVM rather than using an... (continued)

The US cloud provider Togglebox is introducing multiple new features this Summer:

• A REST API with 258 endpoints for managing everything from VMs to support requests.
• An MCP server that wraps the API to manage your infrastructure from an AI agent.
• NVMe backed Object Storage.
• A cleaner, faster Client Area.

Cloud Reports have been a long-standing VPSBenchmarks product, helping cloud providers’ marketing teams promote their VPS and cloud server offerings. By presenting clear, numbers-backed comparisons, they make it easier to highlight a provider’s strengths against competing products and communicate value to prospective customers.

Creating a report is straightforward. Select a set of plans from your own product lines and from competing providers, then choose the metrics you want to include. You can also add comments to explain the data, provide... (continued)

VPSLab has launched a new VPS reseller infrastructure program for hosting providers, infrastructure operators, and resellers that want to build their own VPS hosting or dedicated server services using VPSLab infrastructure.

The program provides two configurations: Full Infrastructure and Upstream Only. Full Infrastructure provides access to dedicated servers, compute, storage, network capacity, API-based provisioning, and white-label management. Upstream Only provides IP transit and DDoS-protected network capacity for providers that already operate their own servers.

Full Infrastructure

The Full Infrastructure... (continued)

Contabo has restructured its VPS product range into three separate lines: Core VPS, Performance VPS, and Max Performance VPS. 

Core VPS runs on Contabo's existing infrastructure and is sized for workloads without high compute demands - web hosting, CMS deployments, email and file servers, development environments, and backup tasks. 

Performance VPS is built on current-generation AMD EPYC processors with NVMe SSD storage as standard across all configurations and network bandwidth up to 1 Gbit/s per instance. It is suited to... (continued)

ScalaHosting is upgrading the database layer across its managed cloud VPS fleet from MariaDB 10.11 to MariaDB 11.8, and has joined MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor. Both are Long Term Support releases; 11.8 has been generally available since June 2025 and is maintained through June 2028. The upgrade is handled as part of the managed service, with no migration or application changes on the customer side.

Where the performance difference shows up
The substantive change is the query optimizer.... (continued)

VPSLab has introduced an optional Premium Network upgrade for customers requiring higher network throughput for bandwidth-intensive VPS hosting workloads.

The new network option provides a 10 Gbps uplink with 15 TB of monthly data transfer and is available as an add-on for eligible VPS services during the ordering process.

The Premium Network is intended for applications that benefit from increased network capacity, including large file transfers, media streaming, backup synchronization, content distribution, software repositories, and other workloads with sustained bandwidth... (continued)

By mid-2026, every major hyperscaler runs a production ARM line. AWS Graviton5 (Neoverse-V3) powers M9g instances. Azure Cobalt 100 (Neoverse-N2) ships in Dpsv6, with a Cobalt 200 preview (Neoverse-V3) promising up to 50% better CPU. Google Cloud Axion splits across N4A (Neoverse-N3, mainstream) and C4A (Neoverse-V2, heavy). Oracle OCI Ampere A4 (Ampere-1a) targets the low-cost segment. The Arm cloud is no longer an experiment: it is an infrastructure tier.

CPU Performance: Four ARM Plans, Measured

I ran four Hyperscaler... (continued)

Arct Cloud has launched as a VPS provider following the 2026 rebrand of ThorNode Cloud, a cloud infrastructure project originally started in January 2024.

Built by an engineering-led team specialized in low-latency and performance-sensitive infrastructure, Arct Cloud is designed for users who need more than a generic virtual server. The platform focuses on developers, startups, crypto-native teams, forex traders, trading infrastructure operators, self-hosters, and businesses running workloads where CPU consistency, disk speed, network quality, and fast technical response matter.

Arct... (continued)

VoyraCloud, a new cloud provider based in Singapore with 8 locations around the world gets its very first performance trial at VPSBenchmark on a 2vCPUs 4GB plan. What's unique about VoyraCloud? They offer Residential IP VPS in the US, Europe and East Asia. VoyraCloud also offers regular Cloud VPS starting at $4.5/month.

VPSLab has launched a Storage VPS product line from its European data center infrastructure in Germany. The service is available as a KYC-free VPS hosting option — no identity verification or registration documents are required.

Storage VPS instances run on Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC nodes with NVMe SSD storage and dedicated non-shared RAM allocations. Network-level DDoS protection is included on all plans at no additional cost.

Storage VPS plans are available across five tiers:

• Start: 1 vCore /... (continued)

Integrating your AI development work with your hosting environment has never been easier. ScalaHosting has launched Skai, a proprietary AI development assistant built natively into its custom control panel, SPanel. Rather than relying on external tools and manual configurations, ScalaHosting developed Skai to connect natural language AI generation directly with server infrastructure management.

How Skai Works

Accessible via a persistent chat window inside the SPanel dashboard, Skai leverages leading AI models like Grok and Claude to turn text descriptions... (continued)

Flexible cloud solutions provider RakSmart has officially launched its App Center, enabling customers to deploy popular open-source applications with a single click.

RakSmart has announced the launch of its App Center, a new service designed to eliminate technical barriers for users deploying applications on cloud servers. The App Center allows customers to deploy applications instantly when purchasing a VPS or Bare Metal Cloud server, with no prior Linux or command-line experience required。

The initial lineup covers a wide range of... (continued)