VPS in the Netherlands for data storage

VPS Hosting in the Netherlands

Amsterdam is a classic choice for European hosting, and for good reason: one of the densest network infrastructures in the world, short routes across Western Europe, and excellent connectivity to the UK, Scandinavia, and North America. Virtual servers here run on the same VMware vSphere platform as the rest of our locations: a new server deploys within minutes, and resources can be adjusted without moving to different hardware.

The Dutch location suits a wide range of workloads: websites and online stores with a European audience, SaaS platforms, VPN services, CI/CD and development environments, corporate applications. An added bonus is the country's liberal data regulations, which have long made the Netherlands a favorite among international digital projects and startups.

Why Choose a VPS in the Netherlands

Amsterdam's trump card is the network. Our site is connected to AMS-IX, one of the largest internet exchange points in the world. In practice, this means short and predictable routes in virtually any direction: traffic to most European operators flows directly, without unnecessary transit hops. For websites, that translates to consistently fast loading; for SaaS and APIs — responsiveness; for VPNs — stable connections from multiple countries.

Geography works in this location's favor too. From Amsterdam, latency is comfortable to Germany, France, the Benelux, the UK, and Scandinavia — if your project's audience is spread across Western Europe, it's hard to find a better spot. Transatlantic routes are solid as well, which is why Amsterdam is often picked by projects with part of their user base in North America.

And then there's the standard advantage of the cloud model: vCPU, RAM, and disk space can be scaled on demand, with no hardware procurement or lengthy migrations. Handy during seasonal peaks, new service launches, or active development.

VMware Cloud Platform

As in our other locations, the cloud in Amsterdam is built on VMware vSphere — an enterprise virtualization platform, not a free hypervisor. The difference shows in critical moments: if a physical node fails, the HA cluster automatically restarts virtual machines on healthy servers, and planned maintenance is handled via live migration — the VPS moves between nodes without service interruption.

The storage layer is built on SSD and NVMe: fast OS boot times, responsive databases, smooth handling of container images and builds. There's enough headroom not just for standard web hosting, but also for demanding dev/test environments, business applications, and multi-tenant SaaS services.

About the NorthC Data Center

Servers are housed in the NorthC data center, a TIER III facility in Amsterdam. The site is designed for business-critical workloads: power, cooling, and network connections are redundant, the infrastructure is monitored around the clock, and access to server rooms is controlled.

The location amplifies the engineering strengths: NorthC sits close to Europe's key telecom hubs, which simplifies circuit provisioning and adds flexibility in route selection.

XServer Cloud has been in business since 2007. If your project needs a platform at the heart of the European internet — with direct access to AMS-IX and fast response times across Western Europe — spin up a VPS in Amsterdam and see for yourself.

VPS for Data Storage

A regular VPS runs into a simple problem: space on fast SSD and NVMe drives is expensive, and storing hundreds of gigabytes of files there is like keeping your winter clothes in a safe. For workloads like these, we offer a dedicated solution — additional HDD storage, where a gigabyte costs several times less than on SSD. Attach a disk of whatever size you need and store as much as you want, without paying for speed where it isn't needed.

The recommended setup is simple: the operating system and applications live on fast SSD/NVMe — so the server boots and runs snappily — while bulk data sits on HDD. The best of both worlds at a sensible price.

What HDD Storage Is Good For

• Personal or corporate cloud — Nextcloud or Seafile on your own server: team files, sync, shared folders. Full control over your data instead of a Dropbox subscription with someone else's rules.
• Media libraries — photo and video archives, music collections, libraries for Plex or Jellyfin. Media files are read sequentially, and HDDs handle that beautifully.
• Backup target — a reliable destination for backups of other servers, workstations, or a NAS. A separate site in a different data center is the right strategy for storing copies.
• Archives and document storage — scans, reports, logs, old projects: everything that needs to be kept for years and opened occasionally.
• File sharing and distribution — serving updates, images, and large files to clients or employees.
• Application data — user uploads, attachments, exports: all the bulky data your service generates that doesn't need NVMe speeds.

Why It Beats the Alternatives

Cloud storage services charge monthly for every terabyte, plus separately for download traffic. Expanding SSD space on a regular VPS is costly. And a dedicated server with large disks is unjustifiably expensive compared to a virtual one. HDD storage on a VPS covers the middle ground: large capacity at a small price, unmetered traffic on a 100 Mbps port (upgradable to 1 Gbps), and full control over your data — your own server, your own file system, your own encryption if you want it.

How to Size the Configuration

Storage doesn't need heavy compute: file workloads get by with modest vCPU and memory, so most of the budget goes into the disks themselves. A few rules of thumb: Nextcloud for a handful of users runs fine on a minimal configuration with a couple hundred gigabytes of HDD; a media server like Plex benefits from extra vCPUs if you plan to transcode video on the fly; a backup target needs almost no compute at all — just space. Storage capacity can be expanded as it fills up — start with a realistic estimate rather than a "just in case" buffer.

When to Consider Other Configurations

If your data is a busy database handling thousands of queries per second, it needs fast disks and plenty of memory: look at High Performance. If the server is primarily for a website and files are secondary, start with a VPS for websites and add HDD in the configurator. And if you're keeping critical data in a single copy — enable daily backups: HDD storage protects your budget, but not against accidental deletion.

Build Your Storage

Pick your HDD size in the configurator — from 100 GB to 2 TB per server — and within minutes you'll have your own storage in a reliable data center. XServer Cloud — store a lot, pay a little.