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Sovereign Hungarian Bare-Metal • Budapest BIX (10Gbps+)
Open-Source Apps,
Shipped in Seconds
Skip the VPS security patches, Docker Compose debugging, and SSL renewal cronjobs. Deploy isolated, production-ready open-source appliances on Hungarian bare-metal from €1.49/mo.
All Appliances Healthy
Active Appliances
4 OCI Isolated
Persistent NVMe
23 GB Enterprise RAID
BIX Network Latency
1.8 ms 10Gbps+ Uplink
Edge Certificates
TLS 1.3 Caddy Auto-SSL
Engineered for Reliability
Zero DevOps overhead, strict bare-metal isolation
Every Exesta appliance runs in its own isolated container on Enterprise NVMe RAID arrays in Budapest. No noisy neighbors, no sysadmin toil, and zero maintenance headaches.
- Dedicated Enterprise NVMe persistent storage volumes
- Automated Caddy TLS 1.3 SSL & custom domain routing
- Direct 10Gbps+ Budapest Internet Exchange (BIX) peering
Budapest BIX Uptime 99.98%
Zero Downtime
Rolling 30-day bare-metal availability
Persistent Storage NVMe RAID 10
Up to 10 GB
Dedicated per appliance
Gen4
Container Isolation OCI Native
100% Dedicated
Appliance I/O Priority Guaranteed
Control-Plane Tax 0% Overhead
BIX Optical Backbone 10Gbps+
~1.8 ms
Budapest Peering
<8 ms
Central EU
Exesta SafeGuard
+€0.99/mo Automated Daily Snapshots
Daily Offsite Backup
Encrypted persistent NVMe volume
7-Day Rolling Retention
Zero external S3 setup required
European Sovereignty
ISO-27001 Tier III+ Budapest Facility
100% EU
GDPR Jurisdiction
OCI Standard
Upstream Images
Zero Lock-In
Full Portability
Exesta SafeGuard & Sovereignty
100% EU GDPR Sovereign & Point-in-Time Protected
Your code, monitors, and databases never leave our Tier III+ ISO-27001 facility in Budapest, Hungary. Enable Exesta SafeGuard (+€0.99/mo) for automated daily encrypted offsite snapshots without configuring external S3 buckets.
- Daily encrypted offsite snapshots (7-day retention)
- One-click instant restore directly from console
- 100% unmodified upstream OCI images — zero vendor lock-in
Developer Feedback
Trusted by European engineers & developers
"Sub-3ms latency from Budapest BIX and zero Docker maintenance. Moving our internal tools to Exesta was the easiest infrastructure win of the year."
Balázs Kovács
Lead DevOps Engineer
"Hosting our private Gitea repositories with 10 GB of dedicated NVMe storage for €3.99/mo has been rock solid from day one."
Sarah Chen
Chief Technology Officer
"Having 100% sovereign EU hosting in Budapest with automated Caddy TLS 1.3 and SafeGuard daily snapshots saves our engineering team hours every week."
Lukas Gruber
Systems Architect
"We deployed YOURLS and Linkstack on custom domains in under 30 seconds. No NGINX configs, no Certbot cronjobs, no Linux kernel patching."
Elena Vasquez
Principal Engineer
"Tracepano on Exesta serves our 360° panoramas effortlessly at €1.49/mo right on the Budapest backbone."
Máté Horváth
Spatial Web Developer
"We used to maintain a full VPS with Coolify just to host 3 tiny open-source tools. Switching to Exesta cut our monthly bill in half and eliminated sysadmin overhead."
Olivia Grant
Infrastructure Lead
"Exesta SafeGuard (+€0.99/mo) is a lifesaver. Daily encrypted offsite backups with one-click restore and zero AWS S3 bucket IAM headaches."
James Thornton
Site Reliability Engineer
"Unmodified upstream OCI containers mean zero vendor lock-in. We own our SQLite databases and Git repositories 100%."
Amara Osei
VP of Engineering
"Predictable flat-rate euro pricing with 20% off yearly billing and enterprise NVMe storage. Exactly what European indie developers need."
Ryan Mitchell
Full-Stack Developer
"I tested five different European PaaS providers. Exesta is the only one combining Central European BIX speed with true micro-appliance pricing."
Sofia Kim
Platform Engineer
Sub-15 Second Provisioning
Deploy & Scale without sysadmin friction
Select your open-source appliance, enter your custom domain, and let Exesta handle reverse-proxy routing, Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, and zero-downtime container updates automatically.
Instant Deployment
< 15 Seconds Turnkey Appliance Pipeline
01
Dedicated NVMe Volume
Persistent storage mounted on RAID 10
02
Isolated OCI Container
Pre-tuned upstream image booted
03
Caddy TLS 1.3 & Custom Domain
Automated HTTPS & HTTP/3 edge routing
Transparent Flat-Rate Pricing
Managed Open-Source Catalog
Predictable pricing per appliance with persistent NVMe storage and automated SSL included. Get 20% off with yearly billing.
Save 20% Yearly
Tracepano
€1.49
/ month
Self-hosted interactive 360° panorama & virtual street view showcase engine built by Exesta.
- 3 GB NVMe Persistent Storage
- Automated Caddy TLS 1.3 SSL
- Custom Domain & Instant Deploy
- Budapest BIX (10Gbps+) Peering
Linkstack
€1.99
/ month
Privacy-first, customizable open-source Linktree alternative with themes and click analytics.
- 5 GB NVMe Persistent Storage
- Automated Caddy TLS 1.3 SSL
- Custom Domain & Instant Deploy
- Budapest BIX (10Gbps+) Peering
YOURLS
€1.99
/ month
Your Own URL Shortener — lightweight, fast link shortener with historical click telemetry.
- 5 GB NVMe Persistent Storage
- Automated Caddy TLS 1.3 SSL
- Custom Domain & Instant Deploy
- Budapest BIX (10Gbps+) Peering
Gitea
€3.99
/ month
Private Git repositories, code review, issues & CI/CD actions hosted on sovereign NVMe storage.
- 10 GB NVMe Persistent Storage
- Automated Caddy TLS 1.3 SSL
- SSH & HTTPS Git Cloning
- Budapest BIX (10Gbps+) Peering
Exesta SafeGuard
+€0.99
/ month
Managed automated point-in-time backups for any Exesta appliance — zero external S3 setup required.
- Daily Encrypted Offsite Snapshots
- 7-Day Point-in-Time Retention
- One-Click Restore via Exesta Console
- Zero External Storage Fees
* All prices exclude applicable VAT. Yearly plans include a 20% discount. EU Reverse Charge mechanism applies for VAT-registered businesses. Prices valid for our Budapest (Hungary) datacenter hub.
Trusted by projects
across Europe
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Technical & Billing FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
All Exesta appliances are hosted exclusively in our Tier III+ ISO-27001 certified datacenter in Budapest, Hungary, with direct 10Gbps+ peering to the Budapest Internet Exchange (BIX). Your data never leaves European Union jurisdiction and is 100% GDPR compliant.
When you switch to yearly billing, you receive an automatic 20% discount across all appliances and SafeGuard backups — for example, Tracepano drops to €14.30/year, Linkstack and YOURLS to €19.10/year, and Gitea (10 GB NVMe storage) to €38.30/year.
Simply point a CNAME or A record from your DNS provider to your Exesta appliance endpoint. Our edge Caddy reverse proxy automatically provisions, configures, and renews Let’s Encrypt TLS 1.3 certificates with HTTP/3 enabled — zero manual configuration needed.
Exesta SafeGuard performs automated daily encrypted snapshots of your persistent NVMe volumes to isolated offsite storage with a 7-day rolling retention window. You can trigger a one-click point-in-time restore directly from the Exesta Console without configuring external AWS S3 or Backblaze B2 buckets.
Never. We run unmodified upstream open-source OCI container images. You have full ownership of your persistent NVMe storage volumes, SQLite databases, Git repositories, and configuration files, which you can export at any time.
Ready to deploy on sovereign Budapest bare-metal?
Start from €1.49/month (or save 20% yearly) with persistent NVMe storage and automated Caddy SSL.