Configure exactly what you need. Scale up anytime — CPU and RAM can come back down; disks only grow.
Bandwidth scales with RAM. Dual-stack IPv4 + IPv6 included on every server.
Can be changed anytime from the server dashboard.
Nightly backups with 7-day retention, zero downtime. Stored on our hardware in Durham — keep an off-site copy of anything critical.
Optional. Auto-generated if left blank.
Required if no SSH key is provided.
Optional. Enables passwordless SSH login.
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Pre-select apps to auto-install after deployment. Apps run as Docker containers on your VPS. You can always install more from the App Marketplace tab after deployment.
No add-on menu for the basics. These are part of every VPS, from the smallest to the largest.
Reach the server’s screen from the portal — fix a broken network config or boot without SSH.
Rules enforced on the hypervisor, before traffic reaches your server. Presets for web, game and SSH-only.
Three free per server. Snapshotting a running server ends with a hard power-off and restart (not a clean shutdown) — stop databases first, or shut down before you snapshot.
Put servers on an isolated private network and talk between them without touching the internet.
WordPress, databases, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Gitea and more — installed with Docker Compose from the portal.
Live charts: CPU, network and disk every 15 seconds; memory every minute.
An OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint on our own GPU, free with every account.
Check status, run power actions and manage firewall rules and snapshots with an API token.
The same specs from the big clouds, at list price. They have more regions; we have per-resource pricing and a person on the other end of every ticket.
| Configuration | Piedmont | DigitalOcean | Linode | AWS Lightsail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB | $11 | $12 | $12 | $122 vCPU, 60 GB |
| 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB | $21 | $24 | $24 | $24 |
| 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB | $42 | $48 | $48 | $442 vCPU |
| Feature | Piedmont | DigitalOcean | Linode | AWS Lightsail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pick cores, RAM and disk independently | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Snapshots | 3 free per server | $0.06/GB-mo | With backups add-on | $0.05/GB-mo |
| Ticket support included | Same day, from the engineer | ✓ | ✓ | Paid plan |
| Annual discount | ~9% | — | — | — |
| IPv4 + IPv6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud firewall | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Competitor list prices checked September 2026: DigitalOcean Basic Droplets, Akamai/Linode Shared CPU, AWS Lightsail Linux bundles. Where a competitor has no exact match, the nearest plan is shown with its spec. Prices exclude tax.
14 Linux distributions — Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 13, Debian 12, Rocky 10, Rocky 9, AlmaLinux 10, AlmaLinux 9, CentOS 10, CentOS 9, Fedora 44, openSUSE 16.0, Arch Linux — plus Proxmox VE if you want to run your own virtual machines inside the server.
Most distributions are ready to SSH into about a minute after checkout. Arch Linux takes around two minutes, and Proxmox VE takes 8–12 minutes because it is installed and verified in place.
Yes — change cores, memory or disk from the dashboard and the difference is prorated. The server restarts to apply the change. Disks can grow but not shrink.
No. Transfer is unmetered with no overage fees. Port speed scales with memory, from 100 Mbps at 1 GB to 500 Mbps at 12 GB.
Yes. Every server gets its own public IPv4 and IPv6 address at no extra cost.
Durham, North Carolina — one location, on hardware we own. The big clouds offer more regions; we offer low latency across the East Coast and a person who knows the machines.