Instances

A complete guide to provisioning cloud instances and bare metal servers on PRV Tech.

Instance Types

PRV Tech offers two compute types: Cloud Instances for flexible, on-demand workloads and Bare Metal for dedicated, single-tenant hardware with no virtualization overhead. See Billing for detailed pricing.

Choosing a Plan

Plans are grouped into four categories:

Category

vCPUs

RAM

Storage

Starting at

Best for

General Purpose

1–16

1–64 GB

25–400 GB NVMe

$5/mo

Web servers, apps, dev environments

CPU-Optimized

2–32

4–64 GB

50–400 GB NVMe

$15/mo

CI/CD, encoding, batch processing

Memory-Optimized

2–16

16–256 GB

50–800 GB NVMe

$30/mo

Databases, caching, in-memory analytics

Storage-Optimized

2–16

8–64 GB

500 GB–4 TB NVMe

$40/mo

Data lakes, media storage, logging

Selecting a Region

Region

Code

Location

Latency (from EU)

US East

us-east

New York, USA

~85 ms

US West

us-west

San Francisco, USA

~145 ms

EU Central

eu-central

Frankfurt, Germany

~5 ms

AP Southeast

ap-southeast

Singapore

~165 ms

OS Images

Distribution

Versions

Type

Ubuntu

22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS

OS

Debian

11, 12

OS

Rocky Linux

8, 9

OS

CentOS

Stream 9

OS

Windows Server

2022, 2025

OS

SSH Keys

Add your SSH public key in Compute → SSH Keys before deploying. Need help? See the GitHub SSH guide.

Cloud-Init

Pass a cloud-init script in the User Data field to automate instance setup. Manage instances programmatically via the Compute API.

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