Alpine VPS

Alpine Linux on Firecracker. Tiny footprint, fast boot.

Alpine VPS on Firecracker microVMs. Roughly five-megabyte base, musl libc, hardware-isolated by KVM. Built for ephemeral workloads, container hosts, and security-conscious deployments.

Open ConsoleWhy Alpine

~5MB

Base userland

BusyBox + musl libc

<3s

Cold boot time

Firecracker microVM

$0.006

From, per hour

Billed per second

Why Alpine on a microVM

Two stacks designed to run only what you need.

Alpine is a security-focused distribution built around BusyBox, musl libc, and OpenRC. The base install fits in roughly five megabytes, with no optional services running by default.

Firecracker microVMs follow the same philosophy at the hypervisor layer: legacy device emulation stripped, KVM hardware isolation underneath. The combination boots fast and runs lean under load.

Best fits

  • Container hosts. Alpine is the most common base image in Docker; running it on the host avoids the glibc/musl mismatch entirely.
  • CI runners. Fast cold boot, small footprint, ephemeral by design.
  • Edge services. Reverse proxies, DNS, VPN endpoints. Small enough to spin up many.
  • Hardened deployments.Smaller attack surface for security-sensitive services.
  • Agent sandboxes.Short-lived microVMs for AI code execution. Boot, run, snapshot, destroy.

Real hardware isolation, on every instance.

KVM hardware isolation, dedicated kernels, per-VM network namespaces. Included on every instance, no add-ons required.

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Pricing

Predictable pricing, per-second billing

Pay with cryptocurrency, billed per second in USD credits. No monthly commitments, no bandwidth fees. Destroy instances anytime and billing stops immediately.

Micro

$0.006/hr

Billed per second

CPU1 vCPU
Memory512 MB
Storage10 GB NVMe
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Medium

Popular
$0.015/hr

Billed per second

CPU1 vCPU
Memory2 GB
Storage50 GB NVMe
Deploy

Large

$0.025/hr

Billed per second

CPU2 vCPU
Memory4 GB
Storage80 GB NVMe
Deploy
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Frequently Asked

The latest Alpine stable release, with the kernel compiled for Firecracker. The base install uses musl libc, BusyBox userland, and OpenRC, the same stack Alpine ships in their cloud images.