VPS in the Netherlands with daily backups

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 with Backups

A backup is the kind of thing you think about in two situations: when you have one, and when you don't. A failed update, a script error, a hack through a vulnerable plugin, an accidentally deleted database — without a backup, any of these scenarios means hours or days of recovery, and sometimes irreversible data loss. With the backup option from XServer Cloud, it works differently: pick the copy you need, click "Restore" — and within minutes the server is running exactly as it was when the copy was made.

The entire server is backed up: operating system, settings, databases, files — including attached HDD storage. There's nothing to configure, no folders to select, no scripts to write: enable the option, and copies are created on their own, automatically, every day.

How Backup Retention Works

We use a two-tier scheme that covers both recent and older problems:

• Daily backups — the last 7 days are kept. These cover the typical situations: "it worked yesterday" is solved by rolling back to yesterday.
• Weekly backups — the last 4 weeks are kept. These save you when a problem isn't discovered right away: say, a hack or data corruption happened two weeks ago, and you only noticed today.

In total, at any moment you have 11 restore points reaching up to 28 days back. Backups are created automatically at the virtualization platform level — no agents inside your OS, no impact on server performance — and stored separately from the VPS, so they remain available even if something happens to the server itself.

Copies in Another Location: Disaster Protection

Keeping backups next to the server is only half the job: such a copy won't help in a serious facility-level incident. So we go further and apply cross-location replication: backup copies are additionally transferred to another of our data centers, in a different country. Even in the least likely scenario — an entire location going offline — your data stays intact and recoverable. This is a level of disaster resilience that usually only large companies with their own infrastructure build for themselves — with us, it's included in the backup option.

Who Really Needs This

• Online stores and commercial websites — orders, customers, payments: an hour of downtime costs money, and losing the order database costs your reputation.
• Projects with databases — CRM, accounting systems, portals: data accumulated over months deserves protection.
• CMS-based websites — WordPress and its plugins are a frequent target of attacks; rolling back to a pre-hack copy brings back a clean site in minutes.
• Anyone who updates and experiments — OS upgrades, database migrations, new configs: with a backup, no change is risky anymore.
• Teams — the more people with server access, the higher the chance of human error. That's statistics, not pessimism.

Backups vs Snapshots: What's the Difference

Your control panel also offers instant state snapshots — they're handy as insurance during a specific operation: take a snapshot, update the software, confirm everything works, delete the snapshot. But a snapshot is stored together with the virtual machine and doesn't replace a proper backup. Backups are independent copies with a schedule and retention depth, stored away from the server. The right strategy is to use both: snapshots for maneuvers, backups for peace of mind.

When to Consider Other Configurations

The backup option can be added to any VPS — it pairs with basic configurations, VPS for websites, and data storage alike. If you need to manage backups of other servers yourself — for example, collecting copies from several machines in one place — take a look at a VPS for data storage in the role of a backup target.

Enable Backups — and Forget About Them

Add the backup option when ordering your server, or at any point later. From then on, everything happens automatically: copies are created daily, kept for up to 28 days, and a restore takes a few minutes and one click. XServer Cloud — data protected, nerves intact.