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IST1 · TR · 41.01, 28.98

VPS hosting in Istanbul, Turkey

Our IST1 point of presence occupies a facility in Istanbul rated Tier III. Every node uplinks at 1 x 10 Gbps into 1.6 Tbps of transit, filtered inline by 1.4 Tbps of scrubbing capacity.

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CodeIST1
FacilityTier III
Uplink1 x 10 Gbps
Capacity1.6 Tbps
DDoS1.4 Tbps

Why Istanbul

Terrestrial routes between Europe and the Middle East converge on Istanbul, so packets that would otherwise detour through Frankfurt can turn here instead. This is an edge site in a partner facility, chosen for position rather than capacity.

How Istanbul is connected

DE-CIX Istanbul anchors carrier-neutral peering in the city, and the domestic market is large enough that local eyeball networks are reachable without leaving the country. Mediterranean subsea systems land on Turkey's southern coast and backhaul north, while terrestrial fibre runs west into the Balkans and east towards the Caucasus.

What IST1 is good at

  • 01Reaching Turkish eyeball networks directly
  • 02Europe to Middle East transit hops
  • 03Regional edge for Caucasus routing
Hosting under Turkey lawKVKK follows the older European directive model closely, cross-border transfer rules included. Separately, Law No. 5651 gives Turkish authorities a domestic route to content removal and places record-keeping duties on hosts, which is worth designing around before you deploy.

Measured latency

Istanbul

Sofia14 ms
Bucharest18 ms
Tel Aviv26 ms
Frankfurt42 ms
Dubai44 ms

Round-trip time from Istanbul to the listed hub, median over the last 30 days.

Peering and transit

IST-IXTR-IX

Addressing

IPv4/23 leased
IPv6/40 allocated

Jurisdiction

Turkey / KVKK. The Europe-Asia bridge for terrestrial routing.

Hardware available here

  • AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
  • Intel Xeon E-2388G

Hardware is operated by us inside a partner facility.

Pricing

Plans available in Istanbul

Prices in Istanbul are indexed at 94% of the base list, reflecting local transit and power cost.

Server familiesCPUvCPURAMMonthlyAnnual · −30%
PULSE
The fast entry point
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X28432 GB€5.55€3.88Deploy
TORQUE
Dense, dedicated, cheap per core
AMD EPYC 9754 Bergamo43216128 GB€23.41€16.38Deploy
NITRO
Highest clock we can buy
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X41616128 GB€30.93€21.65Deploy
FORGE
Memory first
Intel Xeon 6544Y42464512 GB€69.56€48.69Deploy
VAULT
Terabytes that stay cheap
AMD EPYC 9354412864 GB€20.59€14.41Deploy

Fleet discounts stack on top: 3% from three servers, 6% from five, 10% from ten, applied to the whole invoice.

FAQ

Questions about Istanbul

The IST1 point of presence peers at IST-IX, TR-IX and carries 1.6 Tbps of aggregate transit. Every node uplinks at 1 x 10 Gbps, filtered inline by 1.4 Tbps of scrubbing capacity.

Prices in Istanbul are indexed at 94% of the base list, which reflects local transit and power cost. The annual cycle takes thirty percent off that, and ordering several servers on one invoice takes a further three to ten percent. The table above shows both cycles.

Median provisioning at IST1 is under a minute from confirmed payment. Windows images take three to four minutes because of sysprep. Nothing in the flow waits for a human.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, Intel Xeon E-2388G, with DDR5 ECC memory and NVMe storage in RAID10. Hardware is operated by us inside a partner facility.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, Intel Xeon E-2388G, with DDR5 ECC memory and NVMe storage in RAID10. Hardware is operated by us inside a partner facility. Every node keeps a fifth of its cores and memory unallocated, so a busy neighbour does not become your problem.

Turkey / KVKK. The Europe-Asia bridge for terrestrial routing. We comply with valid legal process issued by that jurisdiction and nothing beyond it, and we publish the counts twice a year in our transparency report.