VPS for OBS Studio — from €15.48/mo
Record and restream on a server with an NVIDIA hardware encoder — 5-hour test period before payment
Get a server for OBS
A VPS for OBS Studio is a remote Windows server with a share of an NVIDIA Tesla P4 that records and distributes your stream around the clock without tying up your own computer. OBS hands encoding over to the card hardware encoder (NVENC) and the CPU stays free: in our measurement the same 1080p encode used 19% of the CPU instead of 80% and ran 3.7× faster. The desktop is drawn by the card as well, so scene previews in OBS do not stutter: in the test Windows delivered 60 fps against 5 on the software renderer. Typical jobs are recording broadcasts and webinars, re-encoding and restreaming a ready feed, and composing a scene from several sources. A plan plus GPU bundle starts at €15.48/mo, with a 5-hour test period before payment. For several streams at once take a plan with spare memory.
Plan plus GPU bundles
The plan and the graphics card go into the cart together
Start
| 4 vCPU · AMD EPYC 7663 |
| 4 GB RAM |
| 40 GB NVMe |
| GPU NVIDIA 1 GB |
| Windows or Linux · RDP |
| Test period 5 hours |
Pro
| 6 vCPU · AMD EPYC 7663 |
| 8 GB RAM |
| 60 GB NVMe |
| GPU NVIDIA 2 GB |
| Windows or Linux · RDP |
| Test period 5 hours |
Max
| 10 vCPU · AMD EPYC 7663 |
| 16 GB RAM |
| 120 GB NVMe |
| GPU NVIDIA 2 GB |
| Windows or Linux · RDP |
| Test period 5 hours |
The card encodes, not the CPU
NVENC takes encoding over: 19% load instead of 80%. The cores stay with your scene, sources and filters.
Smooth preview
The desktop is GPU accelerated — 60 fps against 5 on the software renderer. Scene previews do not tear while you work over RDP.
It runs without you
The server keeps recording and restreaming around the clock: you can switch your home computer off and the stream will not drop.
How to set up OBS on a server
Take a bundle with a card
One 1080p scene fits the Start bundle with 1 GB of video memory; for several sources plus recording take Pro with 8 GB of RAM.
Install Windows and OBS
You pick the image yourself, and the NVIDIA driver is already in it. In the OBS output settings choose the NVIDIA NVENC encoder.
Check it in 5 hours
The machine is handed over before payment: start your own scene and look at the load and bitrate on a real stream.
What to consider before ordering
The frame rate ceiling is 60. The card profile carries a hardware limiter: the machine will not deliver more than 60 frames per second under any settings. That is plenty for recording and broadcasting, but not for 120 fps gameplay.
Capturing a game on the same server is limited. A share of the card means 1 or 2 GB of video memory on Pascal without hardware ray tracing: modern games do not run here. The server is good for recording the desktop, webinars, presentations and restreaming a ready feed.
Network and disk. Traffic is not metered and recordings are written to NVMe. Backups you make yourself in the panel — a couple of clicks, nothing to configure.
Take the Pro bundleFrequently asked questions
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Yes. The image ships with the NVIDIA driver, the card is the primary display in the system, and the OBS output settings show the NVIDIA NVENC H.264 and HEVC encoders.
In our test the same 1080p encode used 19% of the CPU against 80% on software x264, and 2.4% with decoding on the card. The freed cores stay with your scene and sources.
For one 1080p scene, the Start bundle at €15.48/mo. For several sources plus recording and restreaming at once, Pro (6 vCPU, 8 GB) at €25.98/mo.
Up to 60: the card profile has a hardware limiter and will not go higher. That is normal for recording and broadcasting; 120 fps needs a different card.
Modern games will not run on a share of a Tesla P4: 1–2 GB of video memory and Pascal without ray tracing. Desktop recording, webinars, presentations and mobile games in an emulator are fine.
No. The RDP session closes but OBS keeps running on the server. Add OBS to startup and enable automatic login, and it will come back after a reboot too.
Traffic is unmetered. If you need a guaranteed lane for continuous multi-stream broadcasting, describe the task and we will size a configuration.
Yes, 5 hours. Set up OBS, start your own scene and look at the load and stream quality before you pay.