Tide-1
£4.50/mo
Light workloads, dev boxes, mail
- CPU
- 1 vCPU
- RAM
- 2 GB ECC
- Disk
- 40 GB NVMe
- Net
- 4 TB · 1 Gbit
London · LD8 · Online
Virtual servers,
built and run in London.
ThamesVPS operates its own racks at Equinix LD8. No resellers, no hidden oversubscription tiers — dedicated cores, NVMe storage and a 10 Gbit blended network, billed by the hour or the month.
- Uptime SLA
- 99.99%
- IPv4 / IPv6
- Dedicated
- Provisioning
- < 60s
ssh root@ld8-vps-7421.thamesvps.net
$uname -srmLinux 6.8.0-45-generic x86_64$lscpu | grep 'Model name'Model name: AMD EPYC 9354P @ 3.25 GHz$ip -4 addr show eth0 | awk '/inet/ {print $2}'185.221.114.42/24$curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{time_total}s\\n' https://lg.thamesvps.net0.018s$systemctl is-active firewalldactive▌
RIPE NCC member · AS213077ISO 27001 facilityPCI-DSS billingGDPR · UK data residency24/7 on-site engineering
Pricing
Plans that don't change quarterly.
Hourly billing with a monthly cap. Bring your own ISO, snapshot at any time, scale up without rebuilding.
Tide-2
£8.00/mo
Web apps, small databases
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- RAM
- 4 GB ECC
- Disk
- 80 GB NVMe
- Net
- 8 TB · 1 Gbit
Tide-4
£15.00/mo
Production services, CI runners
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- RAM
- 8 GB ECC
- Disk
- 160 GB NVMe
- Net
- 16 TB · 1 Gbit
Tide-8
£28.00/mo
Game servers, build farms
- CPU
- 8 vCPU
- RAM
- 16 GB ECC
- Disk
- 320 GB NVMe
- Net
- 32 TB · 2.5 Gbit
Prices exclude UK VAT. Hourly rate = monthly ÷ 730. Snapshots, IPv6 /64 and DDoS protection are included. Additional IPv4 from £1.50/mo each.
Network
Carrier-neutral. Multi-homed. Filtered at the edge.
Two diverse 100 Gbit uplinks via Cogent and Arelion, peering at LINX and LONAP. Volumetric attacks are scrubbed before they reach your rack.
- 600+ peers via LINX LON1 and LONAP
- 100 Gbit transit, two diverse providers
- 1.2 Tbit/s edge scrubbing capacity
- Public looking glass at lg.thamesvps.net
Live latency · last 24hprobe.thamesvps.net
| Region | Median | p95 | Loss |
|---|---|---|---|
| London (City) | 0.4 ms | 1.1 ms | 0.00% |
| Amsterdam (AMS-IX) | 6.8 ms | 8.3 ms | 0.00% |
| Frankfurt (DE-CIX) | 11.2 ms | 13.0 ms | 0.00% |
| New York (NJ) | 68 ms | 72 ms | 0.01% |
| Singapore (SG1) | 168 ms | 178 ms | 0.02% |
Operating principles
Built the way we'd want it built.
ThamesVPS started because the cheap end of the market kept cutting corners that mattered. These are the four we won't.
01
We own the metal.
Every node is bought, racked and operated by our own engineers — no resellers between you and the hypervisor.
02
Predictable performance.
Cores aren't oversold beyond a 3:1 ratio. RAM is never overcommitted. Read your noisy-neighbour graphs in the panel.
03
Real support, not scripts.
Tickets reach a network engineer within ten minutes during business hours, an on-call engineer outside them.
04
Honest pricing.
The price you sign up at is the price you renew at. No introductory rates, no surprise transfer overage at month-end.
What's under the hood
Specifications, written without marketing.
- Hypervisor
- Proxmox VE 8 / KVM, EFI + SecureBoot supported
- CPU
- AMD EPYC 9354P · 32 c / 64 t · 3.25 GHz base
- Memory
- DDR5-4800 ECC RDIMMs
- Storage
- Enterprise NVMe (Samsung PM9A3), local + replicated
- Network
- Mellanox CX-6 25 Gbit per node, dual-homed
- Backups
- Proxmox Backup Server, 14-day retention included
- Snapshots
- Live, zero-downtime, unlimited while plan is active
- Operating systems
- Debian, Ubuntu, Rocky, Alma, Arch, Windows Server
- Console
- HTML5 noVNC + serial-over-SSH
- API
- REST + Terraform provider (beta)
FAQ
Questions we get every week.
Still unclear? Email hello@thamesvps.com — replies typically within an hour during UK business hours.
Where exactly is the equipment?
Equinix LD8 in Docklands, with cold-standby capacity at Telehouse North Two. Both are PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 certified facilities.
How does provisioning actually work?
Orders trigger a Proxmox API call against the least-loaded node in the requested availability zone. Cloud-init applies your SSH key, sets rDNS via our IPAM, and the VM boots in under a minute.
Do you allow Tor exits, mailing, scraping?
No Tor exits, no bulk outbound mail without prior approval, no abusive scraping. Outbound port 25 is closed by default and unlocked on request after KYC.
What happens if I get DDoS'd?
Volumetric attacks are absorbed at our edge before they hit the host. Application-layer attacks are your responsibility, but we can advise on Cloudflare or Path.net front-ends.
Refunds?
Seven-day money-back on first orders, no questions. After that, prorated credit for unused time when you cancel.
A server in London, ready before your tea cools.
Sign up, pick a plan, paste your SSH key. We'll handle the rest.