Cloud servers without the markup and extra charges.
Deploy virtual machines in minutes on infrastructure we own and operate. Compute is never metered, so you pay the same amount every month no matter how hard your CPU works. Cross your bandwidth allowance and the default is a speed drop to the base tier, not a charge, with overage billing available only if you opt in for full speed.
Spark Servers
1 runningWhy we built our own cloud
We started as a software company. We built applications for clients and then had to host them somewhere, and what we could buy came with unpredictable bills, consoles that made simple things complicated, and support sitting behind a ticket queue. So we built our own infrastructure.
Carpathian Cloud runs on compute nodes we own in a Midwest datacenter, in a facility we have physical access to. Nothing here is resold capacity behind a white-labeled dashboard. When something goes wrong we walk over and fix it, rather than opening a ticket with a vendor and waiting.
What comes with every instance
Cloud hosting should not be complicated. You pick a server, you deploy it, you use it. Everything below is included on every instance, with no add-on tiers and no premium feature gates.
Flat monthly pricing
Your VM can sit idle on a Sunday morning or run flat out during a product launch, and the price is the same. There is no per-hour billing and no compute overage, so if your application goes viral your compute bill stays exactly where it was. Bandwidth works the same way by default, dropping to the base speed tier at the allowance instead of adding a charge, with overage billing there only if you opt in.
Modular upgrades
Need more RAM while your CPU is fine? Upgrade the RAM on its own. Running out of disk while everything else has room? Add storage. Instead of pushing you to the next size up and billing you for resources you will never touch, we let each component scale on its own.
No vendor lock-in
Your virtual machines use standard disk images you can download and move anywhere, with no proprietary container format, no migration fee, and no 90-day notice period. If you decide to leave, you take your data and your images with you. We would rather earn your renewal than make it hard to cancel.
The Carpathian Cloud platform
A management dashboard built by the same team that builds the infrastructure, designed as the control panel we wanted for ourselves. Provision servers, track resource usage, manage DNS, and watch uptime from one place.
Cloud dashboard
Your servers, resource usage, billing history, and deployment status in a single view, without clicking through five consoles to learn what is running.
Fast provisioning
Pick your CPU, RAM, storage, and operating system, then deploy. You get a running VM with an IP address and root access in minutes rather than hours, on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, or Windows Server.
Monitoring and protection
Uptime monitoring, resource alerts, automated SSL certificates, and DDoS mitigation come with the server. These are not upsells behind a higher tier, because they should have been included in the first place.
The infrastructure behind it
Your VMs run on compute nodes we own in a Midwest datacenter with redundant power, cooling, and networking. We keep node density low so your workloads have room to breathe, which means a traffic spike does not put you in competition with hundreds of other tenants for the same resources.
We chose the Midwest for low latency to most of the continental US and for reasonable energy costs, and that second part is a large piece of how we keep pricing flat.
- Low tenant density per node for consistent performance
- Redundant networking with automated failover
- Standard VM images, exportable at any time
- Full root access with your choice of operating system
What people run on Carpathian Cloud
Anything you would put on a VPS or a dedicated server, with full root access and your choice of operating system. All usage is subject to our acceptable use policy.
Web applications and APIs
Production applications, staging environments, API backends, and everything in between. Deploy your stack the way you want it, on any runtime and any framework. If it runs on Linux or Windows Server, it runs here.
Databases and storage
Self-managed database servers built for high I/O workloads. Run your own PostgreSQL cluster, a Redis cache layer, or a MongoDB replica set, with root access and full control over configuration, replication, and backups.
Dev, CI/CD, and internal tools
Development servers, build runners, test environments, and internal tooling. Flat pricing means your dev servers cost the same when they run builds all day as when they idle overnight. If you would rather have a team set up the environment and pipeline for you, see our cloud deployment services.
Connect however you want
Full root access over SSH, RDP, or screen sharing, with no web-based terminal standing in the way. You connect with the tools you already use, the same way you would reach any other server.
SSH terminal
Command line access with key-based authentication, working with any SSH client on any platform.
Windows RDP
Native Remote Desktop Protocol for Windows Server instances, reachable from Windows, macOS, or Linux.
Screen sharing
VNC-based graphical access for macOS and Linux desktops, with remote management and observation built in.
Questions we get asked
How does flat monthly pricing work?
Can I upgrade one resource without changing the others?
Which operating systems can I run?
How do I connect to a server?
What happens if I decide to leave?
Where does my server physically run?
Is there an uptime guarantee?
The rest of what runs on this hardware
The infrastructure under these servers also runs the models behind our AI chat and inference API. If you need the software on the server built as well as hosted, that is our software development practice.
Deploy on infrastructure we own and operate.
Price the exact machine you need against the same catalog rates the dashboard charges, then create an account and have it running with an IP address and root access in minutes. If you would rather talk it through first, the person on the other end is one of the engineers who runs the hardware.