Cloud · pay as you go
Rent a cloud server without committing to a monthly plan: with the HostKontor cloud service you top up your account balance, launch as many servers as you need and pay by the hour for what actually runs. CPU, RAM and storage can be resized up and down at any time — the right foundation for load peaks, test environments and every project that does not fit a fixed package.
ReviewableBalance instead of contract
You see the current hourly rates per resource in the customer portal before a server starts. Top up your balance by credit card, bank transfer or cryptocurrency.
A starting point — resize CPU, RAM and storage freely afterwards.
You top up your balance by credit card, bank transfer or cryptocurrency — no further upfront commitment is needed. Every running cloud server deducts its cost from that balance hour by hour; the current hourly rates are always visible in the customer portal. There is no fixed monthly plan: a server that is not running costs nothing. A fixed hosting line item becomes a variable one that follows your actual demand — traceable hour by hour.
With fixed hosting packages an upgrade is quickly done, but the way back is often not available — that is true of our classic VPS plans as well. The cloud server solves exactly this problem: CPU, RAM and storage can be increased at any time and reduced again just as easily. Scale up before the product launch and back down after the campaign; you are always billed for the configuration that is actually running. You no longer have to predict your project's future at checkout — you adjust resources when reality calls for it.
Many workloads are anything but constant: a shop peaks in the busy season, a data import runs once a week, a build or rendering job needs plenty of power briefly and then none for a long time. Hourly billing charges you for exactly that profile — not for the whole month in which it occurred. Start the cloud server when the work is due and stop it once it is done; your balance is only charged for the hours it actually ran. Cost control stays with you, without permanently reserving and paying for peak capacity.
Within one account you launch as many cloud servers as you need — a clean, separate machine for every feature experiment, integration test and client demo. Provisioning runs automatically and usually takes only a few minutes; when the test is finished, you delete the server and the deductions end with it. A test environment that exists for one afternoon costs exactly that afternoon. Forgotten test servers quietly running month after month become a thing of the past — every deduction from your balance can be traced to the hour.
Every cloud server runs on KVM virtualisation, with full root or administrator access and a KVM console that stays reachable even when the system no longer boots. The starter configuration offers 2 vCPU, 4 GB of DDR4 RAM and 80 GB of SSD storage on a 25 Gbit uplink; one IPv4 and one IPv6 address are included. For the operating system you can install Ubuntu 18.04 to 25.04, Debian 9 to 13, AlmaLinux 8 and 9, Rocky Linux 9, Windows Server 2019 and 2022, or MikroTik RouterOS — or mount your own ISO image. Traffic is not metered; a fair-use rule applies, meaning the port speed must not be saturated continuously.
Flexible billing does not mean flexible reliability: availability of 99.98% is contractually guaranteed, and if we fall short the unusable time is credited back to your account — the details are set out in the terms in the customer portal. Three snapshots per server are included free of charge: set a restore point before every update and every resize, and return to it whenever you need to. Scheduled automated backups can be added as a paid option. That lets you experiment with resources and configurations without giving up a safe way back.
For steady, continuous workloads the classic VPS remains the predictable choice: 16 packages in Istanbul and New York with 20 to 240 GB of NVMe storage, at fixed net prices from EUR 2.00 per month plus VAT. The cloud server is the right answer as soon as your demand fluctuates, projects come and go, or you first want to find out how much power your application really needs — with the same guaranteed availability of 99.98%. A German location is in preparation: cabinets are currently being fitted out, and the launch will be announced on this website. Getting started takes only a few steps in the customer portal: top up your balance, pick a configuration, launch the server — it is usually reachable a few minutes later. HostKontor is a brand of the US-based White Label Services group, which serves more than 50,000 active customers group-wide.
Frequently asked
Provisioning is fully automatic: after starting it in the customer portal, the server is usually reachable within a few minutes, with no manual approval step.
Billing is hourly from your balance for the resources that actually run. A project that only exists for one afternoon only costs that afternoon.
Yes — unlike the classic VPS, a cloud server's CPU, RAM and storage can be increased and decreased at any time. You are always billed for what is currently allocated.
Ubuntu 18.04 to 25.04, Debian 9 to 13, AlmaLinux 8 and 9, Rocky Linux 9, Windows Server 2019 and 2022, and MikroTik RouterOS — or mount your own ISO image.
The customer portal shows the current hourly rates per resource before a server starts. We deliberately publish no hourly rates on this website so no outdated figures can circulate.