Istanbul Turkey
Istanbul is the bridge between European and Middle Eastern networks, and serving Turkish users from inside Turkey avoids a substantial latency penalty.
- From Frankfurt
- 14 ms
- Facility
- Equinix
- VPS from
- €4.50
- Bare metal from
- €225
What to run in Istanbul
Choosing a site is mostly about where your users are. Here is where Istanbul is the right answer.
- Turkish end users and the domestic market
- Middle Eastern reach from a European operator
- Applications where a local presence is a regulatory or commercial requirement
- Eurasian routing that would otherwise detour via Frankfurt
Connectivity in Istanbul
Istanbul is the interconnection bridge between European and Middle Eastern networks. Turkish consumer networks are reached with a substantial latency penalty from anywhere in the EU, so a domestic presence is the difference between a usable and an unusable experience for Turkish users.
Jurisdiction and data protection
Turkey, which is outside the EU and the EEA. GDPR does not apply; Turkish data-protection law (KVKK) does. If your workload processes EU personal data, take advice before choosing this site.
Who this site reaches well
Turkey, the Caucasus, the Levant, and onward routes into the Middle East.
Pair it with Sofia
Sofia is the nearest EU site and the obvious failover if you need a European jurisdiction alongside a Turkish presence. See Sofia
Where Istanbul is the wrong choice
Turkey sits outside the EU and the EEA, and Turkish internet regulation is more interventionist than the European norm. Choose this site deliberately, for a Turkish audience — not as a generic low-cost option.
Platform and stock
Servers here run the same platform as the rest of the network: KVM isolation, full root from deploy, BGP multi-homed transit and inline 2.5 Tbps DDoS scrubbing with nothing to activate. Stock varies by site — if a configuration is not currently available in Istanbul we will say so and point you at the nearest site that has it, rather than substituting hardware quietly.
Dedicated servers in Istanbul
The full bare-metal range, subject to stock at this site.
| Configuration | Cores | Memory | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dual Xeon E5-2630 v3 | 16c / 32t | 128 GB DDR4-2133 | €225 |
| Dual Xeon E5-2690 v4 | 28c / 56t | 128 GB DDR4-2133 | €249 |
| Dual Xeon E5-2699 v4 | 44c / 88t | 256 GB DDR4-2133 | €325 |
| Single EPYC 9254 | 24c / 48t | 128 GB DDR5-4800 | €485 |
| Dual EPYC 9254 | 48c / 96t | 256 GB DDR5-4800 | €739 |
| Dual EPYC 9554 | 128c / 256t | 512 GB DDR5-4800 | €1049 |
| Dual EPYC 9754 | 256c / 512t | 1024 GB DDR5-4800 | €1659 |
Deploy your first server now.
No contracts, no minimums. Start on an Ion KVM VPS at €0.0063 an hour and move to a monthly bare-metal server the day you outgrow it.
KVM VPS billed hourly, capped monthly · Dedicated billed monthly · No setup fee
- Free IPv4 + IPv6
- Every VPS
- Unmetered traffic
- 1–10 Gbps
- DDoS mitigation
- 2.5 Tbps
- Root / IPMI access
- Included
- Setup fee
- €0.00
- Minimum term
- None