ERPC, Popular High-Performance VPS, Restocked in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and New York — Why ERPC's VPS is Fast on Solana

ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands, CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO are pleased to announce that ERPC's popular high-performance VPS lineup has been restocked in the three major regions of Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and New York.

High-performance VPS, which are easier to implement than bare-metal servers, are highly popular as a startup environment for Solana developers and are the most used product category on the ERPC platform. With the restock in major regions where inventory had been trending downwards, you can start using them immediately.

ERPC VPS: https://erpc.global/ja/vps/

Why ERPC's VPS is Fast on Solana

3 Structural Reasons Why General VPS is Slow on Solana

"It should be fast because the server is in Frankfurt" or "Performance is not an issue because it's a major cloud provider"—this assumption is what distances you from the true performance on Solana.

There are three structural reasons why general VPS and cloud services are slow on Solana:

1. Performance Limitations

The incentive structure of data centers is focused on minimizing costs for power and network bandwidth, rather than maximizing customer performance. Increased customer performance does not directly increase the data center's revenue. Consequently, commercially available VPS are typically shipped with power-saving and performance-throttling features enabled. Dynamic power-saving control via CPU C-states, default CPU governor settings, and conservative network stack parameters—these factors accumulate, forming a ceiling that prevents the hardware from reaching its full potential.

2. Network Distance

What matters on Solana is not the name of the region, but the physical distance to the Solana validator network. Even if a server is located in Frankfurt, if there are multiple hops through the public internet between it and the data centers where Solana validators are concentrated, latency will significantly worsen. The virtualization layer and network abstraction of cloud vendors further exacerbate this distance. Even within the same "Frankfurt" region, the effective distance to the Solana network can vary by several times.

3. Product Design — Redundancy for General Purpose Use

General-purpose VPS adopt a product design that prioritizes data integrity in case of failure. Disk redundancy, mirroring, and replication are effective for data preservation, but the more resources are allocated to redundancy, the fewer resources are available for application processing, leading to increased latency. For Solana's high-frequency processing, where every millisecond counts, this general-purpose design directly impacts performance.