Jekyll and Hugo hosting on a VPS — from €5.49/mo
Build your site with Jekyll or Hugo yourself — Markdown, Git and lightning-fast builds, with a 5-hour test period before payment, completely risk-free
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A Jekyll and Hugo VPS is a virtual server with full root access for building and serving static sites: you install Ruby for Jekyll or Go for Hugo, build the site from Markdown and serve the finished HTML via Nginx. Both generators are undemanding — Standard 1: 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe at €5.49/mo builds and serves a blog or documentation site with room to spare. Resources matter at build time, not when serving pages: with thousands of pages the NVMe storage and core count make the difference. A 5-hour test period before payment lets you run a full build of your site and time it. The full line-up is on the VPS hosting page; a related topic is VPS for static sites.
Plans
VPS for static site generators
A personal blog or documentation site fits on Standard 1 — 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe at €5.49/mo. Large sites with thousands of pages and frequent rebuilds take Standard 3 (6 vCPU, 8 GB) at €8.99/mo: Jekyll builds are bound by cores and disk. 5-hour test period before payment.
Compare all plansStandard 1
| 4 vCPU · AMD EPYC |
| 4 GB RAM |
| 50 GB NVMe |
| Unlimited traffic |
| 1× IPv4 · KVM |
| 24/7 support |
Standard 2
| 4 vCPU · AMD EPYC |
| 6 GB RAM |
| 60 GB NVMe |
| Unlimited traffic |
| 1× IPv4 · KVM |
| 24/7 support |
Builds from Markdown
Write content in Markdown while Jekyll or Hugo turns it into finished HTML on the server — no hand-coding of pages.
Deploys from Git
Set up automatic builds after every push — the site updates itself and the version history lives in Git.
Full control
Root access, your own Ruby or Go, Nginx with HTTPS and caching — the build and delivery environment is entirely yours.
How to build a site with Jekyll or Hugo
Choose a plan and image
Match the configuration to your site size — from Standard 1 for a blog to Standard 3 for thousands of pages — and select a Linux image: Ubuntu, Debian or another distribution.
Install the OS yourself
Through the panel you deploy the chosen OS on a KVM server yourself and keep full control over the configuration.
Build and publish the site
Over SSH or the KVM console, install Ruby or Go, run the generator build and serve the finished HTML via Nginx.
A server for your static site
We will suggest which configuration fits your site size, so that building thousands of pages runs fast without running out of memory. We will also estimate disk space for images — they, not the HTML, usually fill the drive.
We will help configure Nginx, an HTTPS certificate and automatic builds from Git. If your generator runs on Node.js, see the VPS for Hexo; for database-driven CMS sites there is a VPS for CMS.
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Yes. You install Ruby for Jekyll or Go for Hugo plus any plugins yourself — the generators run on your server without restrictions.
Hugo builds noticeably faster: it is written in Go and works in parallel, while Ruby-based Jekyll processes pages sequentially. Jekyll, in turn, has the richer plugin ecosystem.
Both generators are undemanding: 4 vCPU and 4 GB (Standard 1, €5.49/mo) build and serve a site with room to spare. Hugo builds faster, Jekyll is more flexible with plugins.
With a hook or CI script on the server: after a push it pulls the changes, runs the generator build and swaps the static directory. Set up once, it then runs by itself.
Via Nginx, pointing the root at the build directory — _site for Jekyll or public for Hugo. Enable HTTP/2, gzip and caching: it is fast and barely loads the server.
Yes, any backend runs next to the static files on the same server — a form handler, a small API or a database. Nginx routes requests by path while the static site stays static.
Your own server removes the limits on plugins, build time and repository privacy, and you can run an API, forms and a database alongside — none of that is possible on Pages.
By default no: installation takes a couple of minutes from the panel. If you want a turnkey setup, there is a server administration service from €79/mo.