ERPC Announces Emergency Price Update for Solana-Focused VPS Products Following Sharp Hardware Cost Increases

ERPC, operated by ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, the Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) together with Validators DAO, announces an emergency price update for its Solana-focused VPS product lineup in response to sharp increases in hardware costs.

This price update will take effect from Monday, December 15, 2025. There will be no price changes for existing VPS subscriptions. In addition, VPS subscriptions contracted prior to the effective date of the price update will continue to be billed at the current price.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all users for their continued support of ERPC.

In operating applications and bots on Solana, even VPS instances that appear sufficient based on specification sheets alone may struggle to deliver the expected results when built on assumptions inherited from general-purpose cloud environments.
This is not an issue inherent to the VPS form factor itself, but rather a consequence of Solana’s workload characteristics differing fundamentally from those traditionally assumed in Web2 environments, particularly in terms of latency sensitivity and real-time behavior.

Solana use cases involve transaction submission timing, continuous processing of Shreds and gRPC streams, and immediate analysis of logs and events, where every operation directly affects outcomes.
As a result, factors such as CPU generation and single-thread performance, clock characteristics, overcommit policies, virtualization layer design, network paths, and data center location translate directly into observable performance differences.

Based on real Solana workloads, ERPC has conducted extensive validation across data centers worldwide and has progressively refined CPU configurations, network design, and virtualization structures.
Through this process, it has become clear in actual production environments that the ability to consistently deliver high performance matters more than price points or specification sheet numbers alone.

In recent years, expanding demand driven by AI and blockchain adoption has led to global price increases across server hardware components, including RAM, CPUs, NVMe storage, and networking equipment.
The latest-generation CPUs, ECC DDR5 memory, and high-performance NVMe configurations adopted by ERPC have experienced particularly significant cost increases compared to typical VPS configurations, making it difficult to maintain previous pricing structures.

ERPC will not make choices that sacrifice performance or quality.
In order to sustain high-performance configurations and operational policies that are effective for Solana use cases, ERPC has decided to implement this emergency price update across its VPS product lineup.

ERPC’s VPS offerings are built on design principles that differ fundamentally from those of general-purpose, multi-use cloud VPS platforms.

Data centers are selected exclusively from key network hubs where Solana validators and stake are highly concentrated.
The network is built on the same infrastructure as ERPC’s own RPC, gRPC, and Shredstream services, structurally minimizing distance to Solana leaders and major validators.

ERPC VPS instances use the latest-generation CPUs and are tuned for stable high-clock turbo operation without power-saving throttling.
In addition, virtualization layers and routing paths that do not directly contribute to Solana workloads are minimized, reducing latency variance in stream processing and real-time analysis.

ERPC has long operated Premium VPS offerings without CPU overcommit, a policy that has been highly valued in real-world usage.
With this price update, the same approach has been further extended: SUPER VPS instances have now been upgraded to fully eliminate overcommit, delivering additional performance improvements.

As a result, SUPER VPS instances effectively dedicate physical CPU cores to each allocation, providing stable performance that is less affected by time-of-day fluctuations or other users’ workloads.

Dedicated SUPER Shreds also benefit from this no-overcommit architecture, delivering consistent performance for stream processing.

Standard EPYC VPS offerings are likewise transitioning to operational settings with extremely low overcommit ratios, minimizing performance loss and enabling more stable CPU utilization than before.

This press release does not enumerate individual prices in the body text. Instead, the VPS price lists affected by this update are provided below. Please refer to these tables for the latest pricing and configurations.

ERPC will continue to prioritize real-world Solana workloads as the basis for ongoing improvements, with performance as the highest priority.
Across VPS, bare-metal, and streaming products, ERPC will continue to invest in and refine design, operations, and network architecture to further enhance performance.

For configuration inquiries, availability, or deployment consultations, please contact us via the Validators DAO official Discord.