Quick decision

Running a bot or latency-critical app

Pick location first. Provider second. The right datacenter beats the best hardware every time.

Hetzner (Falkenstein)

Best ping to Binance EU and most Frankfurt-based APIs. Cheapest dedicated CPU in Europe. Start here.

Vultr (Frankfurt / NY)

More locations than Hetzner. Good if you need US East or multiple regions. Slightly higher latency than Hetzner in EU.

UpCloud

MaxIOPS storage architecture — lowest disk latency. Good if your bottleneck is I/O, not network.

Note

Pick dedicated CPU, not shared — shared vCPU introduces unpredictable latency spikes that kill bot performance.