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Rent a VPS
LXC vServers offer you the perfect platform for smaller hobby projects. From your own personal homepage, to a private Teamspeak 3 server or a small game server.
Rent a rootserver
Your server, your performance. KVM root-servers are the perfect solution for projects that need more power. Best of all, you can even run Windows on your server.
Rent a Dedicated Server
Need even more power? Then treat yourself to your own dedicated server. The system is all yours and will not be affected by other customers.
Features
You get full administration access on your rootserver. You have a variety of administrative interfaces, which guarantees a comfortable and straightforward administration of your rootserver. ZAP-Hosting has become one of the most popular rootserver providers in the German rootserver market over the last 6 years, thanks to various payment options – even with PaySafeCard. Likewise, there are no limits to our rootservers, which means you can use your server for all possible applications. No matter whether Gameserver with Minecraft and Garry’s mod or using a Plesk license as a webspace – root server of ZAP are limitless!
Product comparison
What is the difference between VPS, KVM rootservers and dedicated servers?
| VPS | KVM rootserver | Dedicated server | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance index | |||
| Bare metal | |||
| Dedicated performance | |||
| Nested Virtualization | |||
| Installation of Custom ISOs | |||
| Max. cores | 16 | 12 | 20 (40) |
| Max. RAM | 64 GB | 64 GB | 256 GB |
| Max. storage space | 200 GB | 480 GB | 4 TB |
| TS3/Gameserver interface | |||
| DDoS protection | |||
| Trafficflatrate Fair Use | |||
| rDNS & IP administration | |||
| Up/Downgrade option | |||
| Choose between several locations | |||
| Ressource sharing | |||
| Betriebssysteme | | | |
| Pricing | from $8.85 | from $14.45 | from $46.51 |
| Rent now | Rent now | Rent now |
Locations
For optimal connection we offer you several locations to choose from. Choose the one closest to your target group so that your rootserver can unleash its full speed.
FFM / Eygelshoven, GER + 0 % We offer our own server infrastructure with our own network and dedicated hardware at our main location in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The company \"ZAP-Hosting\" was founded at this location in 2010.
The Tier III data center \"SkyLink\" in Eygelshoven (near Aachen, directly on the Dutch border) was introduced in March 2020 as a \"branch office\" of our data center in Frankfurt. All traffic is routed via Frankfurt so that our customers benefit from an optimal connection and DDoS protection.
DDoS protection
Since December 2019, we have been using Combahton DDoS protection with Corebackbone pre-filtering in Frankfurt and Eygelshoven.
Hardware:
We mainly use HP C7000 G3 ProLiant blade systems with 16x HP G8/G9 blades, each equipped with 2x E5-2690v2/v4 CPUs. These have DDR3 and DDR4 ECC memory with speeds of up to 3000 MHz. We rely on Juniper switches. Our core switch has 48x 10G SFP+ ports, via which the entire uplink of our infrastructure is provided. We supply all other switches with uplinks via this switch.
IP networks
As an official RIPE member, we offer our own IP addresses at this location.\n
Dieselstraße 37, 60314 Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
Dallas, USA (central) + 10 %
At the PsychZ Data Center in the State of Texas we have moved into a location with our own hardware and network technology.
Hardware:
We use our own network hardware (Juniper EX3300 switches) with 4x 10G SFP+ uplinks.
At this location we rely on Dell R720 servers with powerful XEON CPUs at clock speeds between 3 and 3.4 GHz.
DDoS Protection:
The location is equipped with a strong DDoS Protection protected, that offers optimal protection and performance against stronger DDoS attacks, optimized for Gameservers.
On-site personnel:
The data center offers first-time support and has a Technician around the clock.
IP networks:
As an official RIPE member, we have our own IP networks at this location and therefore you can book your own IP addresses with us.
1515 Round Table Dr, Dallas, TX 75247
Ashburn, USA (East) + 10 % In the PsychZ data center in the state of Virginia, we have a location with our own hardware and network technology Hardware:
We use our own network hardware (Juniper QFX5100 switches) with 40G QSFP+ uplinks
In this location we mainly use HP C7000 Bladecenter Servers with powerful XEON CPUs at clock speeds between 2.8 and 3.8 GHz.
DDoS Protection: We rely on our own filter hardware here, using the protection software from "aurologic", which is highly optimized for game servers. Since 2019, the software has been further developed and improved at our main location in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in close cooperation with aurologic. This allows us to offer one of the best game server DDoS protections on the market.
On-site staff
The data center provides first-time support and technicians around the clock.
IP Networks: At this location, as an official RIPE member, we have our own IP networks and therefore offer booking of our own IP addresses.
PsychZ Network, 3873 Park Center Rd #75 Herndon, VA 20171, USA
Helsinki, Finland + 10 % Our data center in Helsinki, Finland convinces with short intervention times in case of problems. Especially players and users from the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), as well as from parts of Russia, Belarus and Sweden benefit from the location of the data center.
Hardware:
We
rely on over-clocked CPUs, 64 GB for our game-server host server with DDR4 regECC memory and fast NVMe SSDs. VPS are hosted on server CPUs with at least 14 cores.
DDoS Protection:
The site in Helsinki, Finland offers optimal DDoS protection with a possible mitigation of up to 2 Tbit/s.
On-site personnel:
Technicians are on site 24/7 for emergencies.
Our
Monitoring system informs us about all failures in real time. So immediate intervention of a technician on site is possible.
Helsinki, Finland
Los Angeles, USA (west)+ 10 %
At the PsychZ data center in the state of California, we have moved to a location with our own hardware and network technology
Hardware:
We use our own network hardware (Juniper QFX5100 switches) with 40G QSFP+ uplinks
In this location we mainly use HP C7000 Bladecenter servers with powerful XEON CPUs at clock rates between 2.8 and 3.8 GHz.
PsychZ Network, 700 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, USA
Technical details
Our rootservers offer you very cost-effective systems that are very powerful. Our fully virtualized dedicated rootservers give you exactly the resources you have acquired and you do not have to share resources with other customers. In this way, you always get exactly the performance you expect and can assume that your services will run with maximum satisfaction. Thanks to a free DDoS protection with a DDoS Protection Manager, attacks from outside are specifically repelled. You have full access to the protection and can run it in different modes, as well as in Layer 7 mode. Everything is very easy to understand and learn.
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