Introducing RANDHOST: Infrastructure Without Borders
Today we are excited to announce RANDHOST, a new approach to global hosting infrastructure. Our name comes from the Old Norse word for "shield," and it captures what we set out to build: a platform that protects your workloads while removing the barriers that limit where and how you deploy.
Starting with data centres in Lisbon and Johannesburg, we are building a network that spans three continents. This is not another US-centric cloud provider with a single European point of presence bolted on as an afterthought. RANDHOST is built from the ground up around the regions that traditional providers underserve.
Why We Built RANDHOST
The hosting landscape has been dominated by North American providers for years. If you run a fintech app serving customers in Lagos, a SaaS platform with users across the EU, or a media company distributing content into Latin America, you have been forced to choose between high latency from distant data centres or small regional providers with limited capacity.
We believe businesses in Europe, Africa, and South America deserve infrastructure that sits close to their users, complies with local data protection regulations, and is priced transparently. RANDHOST exists to fill that gap.
What We Offer
RANDHOST provides two categories of compute: cloud VPS instances and bare-metal dedicated servers. Both are backed by NVMe storage, 10Gbps network connectivity, and multi-terabit DDoS protection included on every server.
Cloud VPS
Our cloud instances run on enterprise hardware and deploy in seconds. You pick a plan, choose your data centre location, select an OS template, and your server is ready. We support Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, CentOS, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Windows Server. You can also upload a custom ISO if your workflow requires it. All templates support cloud-init, so you can pass user-data scripts at deploy time and have your server configured automatically.
Bare-Metal
For workloads that need dedicated resources with zero virtualisation overhead, our bare-metal servers deliver Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors, up to 512GB of DDR5 ECC RAM, and NVMe SSD arrays with optional RAID. Every bare-metal server includes IPMI and remote KVM access, giving you full out-of-band management as if you were physically in the data centre.
Block Storage
Our NVMe block storage volumes attach to any cloud instance and deliver up to 40,000 IOPS with 1GB/s throughput. Volumes are available from 50GB to 2TB across Standard, Enhanced, and High Performance tiers. Use them for databases, media assets, build artifacts, or anything that needs persistent, high-speed storage independent of your compute instance lifecycle.
Network That Actually Reaches Your Users
Infrastructure is only as good as the network connecting it. We peer at four major Internet Exchange Points: DE-CIX in Lisbon and Madrid, NAPAfrica in Johannesburg, and Inter-IX in the Netherlands. This means traffic between our data centres and end users in Europe and Africa stays on optimised paths rather than bouncing through congested transit links on another continent.
Our Lisbon facility connects to three submarine cable systems (EllaLink, Equiano, and SEA-ME-WE 4), giving it direct fibre paths to South America, West Africa, and Asia. Johannesburg peers at NAPAfrica, the largest IXP on the African continent, providing low-latency connectivity across sub-Saharan Africa.
Built for Compliance
Data sovereignty is not optional. Our EU data centres operate under GDPR jurisdiction. Our South African facility operates under POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act). We offer Data Processing Agreements on request, and our facilities hold ISO 27001 certification. When we expand into Brazil, LGPD compliance will be built in from day one.
Pay the Way You Want
We accept credit and debit cards via Stripe, PayPal, and cryptocurrency including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and other major tokens. We believe paying for infrastructure should be as flexible as deploying it.
What Comes Next
Lisbon and Johannesburg are live today. We are actively building out additional locations to complete our three-continent network. Our roadmap includes managed databases, a public looking glass for network diagnostics, and a Terraform provider for infrastructure-as-code workflows.
We are building RANDHOST for developers, DevOps engineers, and CTOs who need global reach without compromise. If that sounds like you, explore our plans and deploy your first server today.