Cloud hosting for Start-ups
Start small, scale big: cloud infrastructure with no upfront investment, no minimum contract term – and with a €200 starting credit to get you started.
- €200 starting balance For new accounts – get started straight away
- No minimum term – pay only for what you use
- From €3.12 per month – VMs that grow with you
- Expert support if your own team is still small
- 99.8% uptime SLA for ccloud³ VMs in the HA Pool – reliably hosted in German data centres
- Hosting packages from €3.65 per month – get started without high initial costs
Infrastructure that fits within a start-up’s budget
Every euro counts – that’s why, with centron, you can get started without the burden of fixed costs and only scale up once you’ve gained traction.
Keeping costs under control
Billing down to the hour, quotas to guard against budget surprises, and a price calculator that provides clarity upfront – your CFO will love it.
Productive in minutes
Create, deploy and go live: your first infrastructure is up and running in minutes – without a DevOps team and without weeks of cloud setup.
Growth without restructuring
From a two-VM setup to Kubernetes, from SQLite to replicated databases: every stage of growth can be achieved on the same platform – without having to switch providers.
Support as a stand-in co-founder
Don’t have your own admin? 24/7 expert support is included free of charge – and Managed Services will take over operations later on if you want to focus on the product.
Individual startup cloud hosting with ccloud³ VMs
From MVP to scaling product: four expansion stages founder teams pass through on the same platform – without migration.
Worker Pool VMs for growing projects
The affordable entry from €3.12/month: first company website, MVP or staging environment – billed by the hour, ready in minutes and expandable at any time.
Power Pool VMs for compute-intensive use cases
Guaranteed 3.5 GHz per core for applications that need constant performance – from the product database to the build pipeline.
High availability for critical applications
When the product is live and customers are paying: VMs in the High Availability Pool with a 99.8% uptime SLA and real-time replication – details on ccloud³ Virtual Machines.
Cloud GPU VMs for AI and visual applications
Dedicated NVIDIA GPUs from €92.59/month for model training, inference and rendering – booked only while the experiment runs: Cloud GPU.
Their infrastructure grows with every round of funding
Day 1: one VM for the prototype. First customers: second VM, daily cBacks, monitoring. Product-market fit: Kubernetes with AutoScaler, S3 for assets, staging via snapshot cloning. Enterprise deals: VPC isolation, C5 certifications, SLAs. Everything on a single platform – your stack simply scales with you.
- Prototype – a VM from €3.12 per month
- First customers – Backups & monitoring included
- Scaling – Kubernetes from €29.99 per month
- Enterprise-ready – Compliance documentation included
The start-up stack at an introductory price
Most start-up teams at centron get started with these three building blocks.
- Deployed in seconds
- Scalable at any time
- Billed by the hour
- Up to 10 backups per VM
- Every hour to every day
- No retention period
- AutoScaler included
- Traffic at a fixed price
- CI/CD-ready
Which cloud infrastructure is best suited to Startup Cloud?
Cloud for start-ups: get started with a €200 starting credit, pay by the hour and grow without the need for migration – managed support included. The cornerstone of the service is ccloud³ VMs from €3.12 per month – billed by the hour, with no minimum contract term. This is supplemented, as required, by cBacks and Kubernetes. All data remains in Germany: in our own data centres in Hallstadt near Bamberg, certified to ISO 27001 on the basis of IT-Grundschutz and BSI C5:2020 Type 1. New accounts receive a €200 starting credit.
| Building block | Price |
|---|---|
| ccloud³ VMs | from €3.12 per month |
| cBacks | 0,00 € |
| Kubernetes | from €29.99 per month |
How our customers manage their IT
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