Dev sandbox / CI runners in Romania

Self-hosted GitHub/GitLab runners, ephemeral preview envs, build farms — on hardware you didn't lease through a corporate billing system.

Romania: EU member with no mandatory data retention (Constitutional Court ruling, 2014). DMCA notices declined; takedown requires Romanian court order.

See plans from $54.99/mo About Romania

No KYC DMCA ignored Crypto only 60-second deploy

1 Tbps

DDoS absorption

41s

Median deploy

Bucharest (RO-BUH)

Datacenter

$54.99

Entry plan / month

Why Romania

The Romania case for Dev sandbox / CI runners

Romania is an EU member but the Constitutional Court has struck down data-retention legislation twice (2009 and 2014), holding that bulk retention violates the Romanian constitution. The result is a unique posture inside the EU: full GDPR rights without mandatory traffic logging. Bucharest network is well-peered with Eastern Europe, has competitive bandwidth pricing, and tolerates DMCA-weighted workloads better than most western European jurisdictions. Common pick for seedboxes, scraping infrastructure, and Tor relays.

Self-hosted CI runners (act, Earthly, Drone, GitLab Runner, GitHub Actions self-hosted) avoid the per-minute meter, the security boundary problems with cloud runners, and the slow restart times of GitHub-hosted-runner cold-starts. KVM with full root + nested virt + custom kernel modules means anything Docker-in-Docker, Kata, or microVM (Firecracker) runs without special handling. Ephemeral preview environments per pull request fit cleanly on vps-business with a Docker layer.

Workload alignment

What Dev sandbox / CI runners gets from Romania

Full KVM, nested virt, kernel modules. Docker-in-Docker, Kata Containers, Firecracker all work.

41-second deploy median. Spin up an ephemeral env per PR in less time than your test suite runs.

AMD EPYC 9454P on Scale tier — the same hardware that powers GitLab.com's shared runners.

No corporate AUP gotchas. Run anything from kernel fuzzing to chaos-engineering chaos.

Crypto-native billing — pay by the month, no payment-failure surprises in your CI pipeline.

Plans

Dev sandbox / CI runners — Romania plans

Plans below ship from Romania (Bucharest (RO-BUH)) by default. Pick the cheapest that matches your projected load — hot-resize is live.

VPS

Pro

Intel Xeon Gold 6430 · Bucharest (RO-BUH)

8 vCPU
24 GB DDR5 ECC
400 GB NVMe
5 Gbps unmetered

$54.99/mo

Deploy in Romania

VPS

Scale

AMD EPYC 9454P · Bucharest (RO-BUH)

12 vCPU
32 GB DDR5 ECC
640 GB NVMe
10 Gbps unmetered

$69.00/mo

Deploy in Romania

Dedicated

Shield

AMD EPYC 7313P · Bucharest (RO-BUH)

16 cores · 32 threads
64 GB DDR4 ECC
2× 1 TB NVMe
1 Gbps unmetered

$79.00/mo

Deploy in Romania

Sysadmin FAQ

Dev sandbox / CI runners in Romania — questions answered

Will Docker-in-Docker work on KVM here?

Yes — we ship CONFIG_KVM and nested virt enabled on every host. dind, sysbox, gVisor, Kata Containers and Firecracker microVMs all work without sysctl edits or kernel rebuilds.

How many concurrent CI jobs can I run on a vps-pro?

Depends on the workload. Typical Go/Node/Python builds: 6–10 concurrent on vps-pro's 8 vCPU. C++/Rust LTO builds: 2–3. Browser-based E2E with headless Chromium: 4–6. Beyond that, Scale tier or ded-shield for sustained load.

Can I run GPU workloads or just CPU?

CPU only — we don't offer GPU instances. For ML CI or rendering, a different host is the right answer. Most CI doesn't need GPU.

How do I keep the CI secrets safe on a remote host?

Same way you would on any self-hosted runner: encrypt at rest (LUKS), use ephemeral runners (re-imaged per job), keep the long-lived secrets in your CI orchestrator and let the runner pull them at job start. We don't have visibility into the runner instance — full root means full responsibility.

What if I need to scale up for a release week?

Hot-resize works on every VPS plan — vCPU and RAM are live; disk needs one reboot. Or spin a temporary scale instance for a week and destroy it after. Our crypto billing doesn't penalize partial-month usage; you pay for what you use proportionally.

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