ERPC Restocks High-Performance VPS in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and New York — Why ERPC's VPS Delivers Superior Solana Performance

ERPC, operated by ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Amsterdam) and Validators DAO, has restocked its high-performance VPS lineup across three key regions: Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and New York.

As the most accessible entry point in the ERPC platform, high-performance VPS has become the most widely adopted product category — offering Solana-optimized infrastructure without the commitment of a dedicated bare metal server. With inventory replenished across these major regions, new deployments are available immediately.

Why ERPC's VPS Delivers Superior Solana Performance

Three Structural Reasons Standard VPS Falls Short on Solana

"I put my server in Frankfurt, so it should be fast." "It's a major cloud provider, so performance should be fine." These assumptions are costing Solana developers real performance.

Standard VPS and cloud offerings underperform on Solana for three structural reasons.

1. Performance Throttling

Data center incentives are aligned with minimizing power and bandwidth costs — not maximizing customer performance. Higher customer throughput does not increase data center revenue. As a result, most VPS products ship with power-saving and performance-conserving features enabled by default. CPU C-state dynamic power management, default CPU governor settings, and conservative network stack parameters compound into a performance ceiling that prevents hardware from reaching its full potential.

2. Network Distance to the Solana Validator Network

What matters for Solana is not the name of the region, but the physical proximity to the Solana validator network. A server labeled "Frankfurt" that sits behind multiple public internet hops from the data centers where validators are concentrated will suffer significant latency penalties. Cloud vendor virtualization layers and network abstraction add further distance. Two servers in the same city can have vastly different effective distances to the Solana network.

3. Product Design — General-Purpose Redundancy

General-purpose VPS products prioritize data durability through disk redundancy, mirroring, and replication. These are sound strategies for data preservation, but every resource allocated to redundancy is a resource taken away from application processing, adding latency. For Solana's high-frequency workloads where milliseconds matter, this general-purpose design becomes a performance ceiling.

ERPC's VPS Eliminates All Three

ERPC's high-performance VPS is purpose-built for Solana speed.

Performance Throttling Removed — CPU C-states disabled, CPU governor locked to performance mode, kernel parameters optimized, network stack tuned, memory settings configured for throughput. Every power-saving and performance-conserving feature is stripped away, and the hardware is configured to deliver its maximum potential. A recent platform-wide performance boost applied across all VPS tiers resulted in observed P99 latency improvements of 150–200ms.

Near-Zero Latency to the Solana Network — ERPC VPS instances are deployed inside premium data centers where Solana validators are concentrated. Internal network paths within the same platform enable private network connectivity with validators — without traversing the public internet. This internal traffic incurs no additional network charges. Communication with Solana RPC, Solana Geyser gRPC, Solana Shredstream, and SWQoS endpoints within the ERPC platform is available at no extra network cost.

Speed-First Product Design — Server-side resources are 100% dedicated to performance, while data safety is handled externally. SLV Backup combined with ERPC Global Storage provides E2E encrypted backups stored outside the server at all times. This resolves the tension between performance and data safety at the product design level.

Benchmark Comparison — Same-Generation CPU, Same Region

Design philosophy differences show up in numbers. Under identical conditions — AMD Turin (5th Gen EPYC) CPU, Amsterdam region, Ubuntu 24.04, 4 vCPU class — we benchmarked ERPC VPS++ against Google Cloud c4d-standard-4.

CPU Throughput — ERPC delivers ~1.93x higher throughput (sysbench, 4 threads)
Memory Bandwidth — ERPC delivers ~3.17x higher bandwidth (STREAM Triad, 4GiB)
Storage IOPS — ERPC delivers ~16.56x higher IOPS (fio 4K randread QD32)
Storage P99 Latency — ERPC reduces P99 latency by ~25.72x (fio 4K randread QD32)

Even with the same generation of CPU, differences in performance control, storage configuration, and system-level tuning produce these results. The storage performance gap is particularly striking — an order-of-magnitude difference in a domain that directly affects Solana block data processing and snapshot operations.

ERPC continuously applies R&D outcomes to the platform and will continue to improve performance going forward.

Restocked Lineup

All EPYC VPS configurations are now available in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and New York.

VPS (€42/mo) — 1 vCPU / 4GB ECC DDR5 / 10GB NVMe4 / 10Gbps × 2
VPS+ (€78/mo) — 2 vCPU / 8GB ECC DDR5 / 20GB NVMe4 / 10Gbps × 2
VPS++ (€128/mo) — 4 vCPU / 16GB ECC DDR5 / 50GB NVMe4 / 10Gbps × 2
VPS+++ (€198/mo) — 8 vCPU / 32GB ECC DDR5 / 100GB NVMe4 / 10Gbps × 2

Every configuration includes high-clock EPYC CPUs (above 4.15GHz), ECC DDR5 memory, NVMe4 SSDs, and 10Gbps × 2 networking, with unlimited intra-platform traffic and proximity-based connectivity within the ERPC platform as standard.

Starting at €42/mo compared to €298–398/mo for bare metal servers, VPS offers an accessible entry point. With SLV's migration tooling, scaling up to a higher-tier VPS or bare metal is a single-command operation — making it practical to start small and scale as needed.

ERPC VPS: https://erpc.global/en/vps/

High-Speed Snapshot Downloads — Structurally Reducing Operational Costs

The ERPC platform enables high-speed snapshot downloads.

Snapshot downloads are one of the most time-consuming recurring tasks in Solana validator and Solana RPC operations. On typical public network environments, downloads can take 15–20 minutes depending on conditions. On ERPC, the same operation completes in minutes.

For Indexed RPC (full-index RPC with AccountsDB), snapshot downloads on typical public network environments can exceed 2 hours. On ERPC, this is dramatically reduced.

Snapshot downloads are not a one-time event — they recur during initial setup, failover recovery, version upgrades, and configuration changes. The cumulative impact of completing these operations in minutes rather than tens of minutes structurally reduces the time cost of ongoing operations.

Epics DAO Validator — Ranked 3rd Globally

The Epics DAO Validator, which powers ERPC's SWQoS endpoints and serves as the source for Epic Shreds, has reached 3rd place globally among all Solana validators as of March 2026 (score: 99.93).

Deploying VPS on the ERPC platform means sharing a private network with this world-class validator. Improvements in validator performance translate directly into higher SWQoS endpoint quality and faster Epic Shreds delivery.

As the validator continues to improve, the entire platform gets faster — a structural advantage that compounds over time.

SLV — Migration, Backup, and Starting Small

Built for Easy Onboarding

Wanting better performance doesn't mean migration is easy. The risk and effort of moving from an existing environment can become a barrier to improvement.

SLV is designed to remove that barrier. SLV Migrate Linux copies an entire Linux environment to a new destination in a single command. SLV Backup automates AES-256 E2E encrypted backups, with single-command restoration when needed.

Because a reliable migration foundation is in place, starting with a smaller resource becomes a viable strategy. Begin with a €42/mo VPS, then move to a larger VPS or bare metal with a single command when scale demands it. We built an environment where you can try first and decide later.

AI Agent-Powered Operations

With SLV v0.13, running slv onboard sets up your environment and slv c launches the AI Console. From there, Solana validator and RPC operations can be managed through natural language. No CLI commands to memorize.

The combination of ERPC VPS and SLV's AI agent provides the fastest and most operationally efficient foundation for Solana development.

SLV Website: https://slv.dev/en

ERPC — Cut Infrastructure Costs, Focus on Strategy and Code

Time spent on infrastructure is a hidden cost that erodes development velocity.

Researching performance tuning, evaluating data centers, verifying network routes, waiting for snapshot downloads — all of this takes time away from what matters: strategy and code.

ERPC provides an environment where deploying to the platform gives you optimized configurations, Solana-specific tuning, high-speed snapshots, and the fastest communication paths from day one. Deep data center expertise is not required to access a high-performance environment — that is the design philosophy behind ERPC.

Focus on your strategy and code. Leave the infrastructure to ERPC.

Five Consecutive Years of WBSO Approval

ELSOUL LABO has received WBSO R&D approval from the Dutch government for five consecutive years since 2022. Ongoing research into ultra-low-latency Solana RPC infrastructure and automated validator placement and operational orchestration continues to feed directly into platform performance improvements.

R&D outcomes are cumulative, and the rate of improvement accelerates over time.

Next-Generation Infrastructure — AS200261 Solana-Optimized Data Center

ELSOUL LABO has been assigned its own ASN (AS200261) by RIPE NCC and is developing a top-tier, Solana-optimized data center. The facility features a uniform hardware stack of 5th Gen AMD EPYC, 5th Gen AMD Threadripper PRO (9975WX class), and NVMe Gen 5, combined with optimized network routing under ERPC's own ASN.

The facility is expected to open next month and will serve as the next-generation foundation for further performance improvements across all platform products, including VPS. The initial allocation is fully reserved; subsequent availability will be offered through the waitlist.

Contact

For inquiries about high-performance VPS and ERPC, please create a support ticket on the Validators DAO official Discord.

Validators DAO Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR

For official information and plan details, visit the ERPC website.

ERPC Website: https://erpc.global/en