Trans IP PureSSD X8, € 50.00/mo. on Linux/Windows VPS

PureSSD X8 has been discontinued on January 25, 2026 (added October 19, 2016), Aggregate Rating (5 out of 10 from 2 reviews)

💪 CPU/Cores :	4 Intel Xeon
🔋 RAM :	8192 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]KVM
🔧 Category :	Backup
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Netherlands
⚑ Targeting :	NL UK

Original plan URL was https://www.transip.nl/vps/

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

TransIP is a long-standing Dutch domain and hosting provider based in Leiden, active since 2003 and founded by internet entrepreneur Ali Niknam. Over two decades it has grown into one of the largest registrar–hosting brands in the Benelux and now operates as an anchor brand within the team.blue group, which brings it into a wider European infrastructure ecosystem.

The core catalog for classic website projects revolves around Linux web hosting on fast SSD storage. Plans are structured into three tiers – Core, Pro, and Max – and all of them share the same basic idea: one shared platform with unlimited data traffic, containerized Linux environments for each site, and a central firewall layer. Even the entry Core plan comes with 1 website, 20 GB SSD space, email inboxes, a MySQL database, free SSL, daily backups, SFTP/SSH access, and one-click WordPress installs. Moving up to Pro and Max increases the number of hosted sites (up to 5), storage (up to 250 GB), email accounts, database limits, and Varnish cache allocation, so it scales from simple blogs and small business sites up to busier multi-site setups.

Beyond web hosting, TransIP is very strong on self-managed compute. The VPS line is split into three platforms: BladeVPS for general-purpose workloads, PerformanceVPS for high-end dedicated-vCPU use cases, and SandboxVPS as a low-cost IPv6-only playground for development and testing. BladeVPS offers 1–8 shared vCPUs, up to 64 GB RAM and 1.28 TB SSD; PerformanceVPS pushes that up to 32 dedicated vCPUs, 64 GB RAM and 1.6 TB NVMe network storage. Every VPS includes IPv4/IPv6, a firewall, monitoring and automatic backups, with more frequent backups and snapshots on the higher tiers. SandboxVPS strips away "production" extras like IPv4 and advanced backup options to create a cheap, flexible environment to experiment with.

For projects that need something closer to an elastic cloud, TransIP also offers OpenStack-based Public Cloud. This is aimed at customers who want to build scalable, redundant infrastructures: autoscaling instances billed per hour, separate block storage tiers (HDD/SSD/NVMe), GPU instances, load balancing, secret management and orchestration tools. Data stays in the EU, spread across three physically separate data centers, with triple-replicated storage across racks and high-capacity inter-DC links. Combined with optional networking products like HA-IP load balancers, Private Network and dedicated IP subnets, it covers many of the same use cases as hyperscaler clouds, but on a smaller, more focused European footprint.

On top of hosting and compute, there is a broad supporting layer: domain registration for a wide range of TLDs, DNS hosting, email-only plans for customers who just want professional mail on their own domain, storage add-ons under the "Big Storage" brand, and managed mail-sending services for VPS users. Everything is controlled through TransIP’s own web control panel and API, and the whole platform is available both in Dutch and English (via transip.eu ) through the .nl/.eu/.co.uk domains, making it accessible to local Dutch customers as well as international users comfortable with English.

A noticeable characteristic of TransIP is how much of the stack is self-built and automated. The company emphasizes that all core systems – from the control panel to VPS platform and OpenStack environment – are engineered in-house and designed to be heavily automated. That shows up in features like Git integration for web hosting (AutoGit deployments), quick OS reloads for VPS, infrastructure as code integrations for OpenStack, and a strong API story. This makes the platform particularly attractive to developers, agencies, and technically fluent SMEs who want to script and integrate their infrastructure instead of treating hosting as a black box.