🐳 Infrastructure

Docker / Container VPS Hosting — Docker + Compose + Portainer, ready in 30 seconds

A clean Linux VPS with Docker Engine, Docker Compose, and Portainer CE pre-installed. The foundation other OliveVPS app recipes build on — perfect when you want full control of your own stack. Built for Developers, DevOps engineers, self-hosters who want a container-first server.

Docker / Container VPS Plans

Three plans, one purr-fect fit.

Every docker / container plan includes free DDoS protection, full root access, IPv6 networking, daily snapshots, and 24/7 human support.

🐾 Starter
Docker / Container VPS
$7.99/mo
  • 2 vCPU dedicated
  • 2 GB DDR4 RAM
  • 40 GB NVMe
  • 2 TB Bandwidth
  • 1 Gbps Network
  • Pre-installed: Docker CE
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🐅 Premium
Docker / Container VPS
$35.99/mo
  • 8 vCPU dedicated
  • 16 GB DDR4 RAM
  • 200 GB NVMe
  • 10 TB Bandwidth
  • 1 Gbps Network
  • Pre-installed: Docker CE
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What's included

Everything pre-installed, nothing to configure.

Order, wait 30 seconds for deploy, log in — your stack is running.

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Latest Docker CE

Always the latest stable release from Docker's official repo, not your distro's stale fork.

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Docker Compose v2

Built-in plugin. `docker compose up` works out of the box.

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Portainer dashboard

Web GUI on port 9443 to manage containers, networks, volumes, and stacks visually.

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Hardened defaults

Non-root user, UFW pre-configured, Docker socket protected, no public Docker API.

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Snapshot-friendly

Take a Portainer template snapshot once you've configured your stack — redeploy anywhere in seconds.

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Upgrade path

Outgrow this plan? We migrate your containers to a Kubernetes Pterodactyl or High-CPU box without downtime.

01 — Who this is for

Built for developers

A clean Linux VPS with Docker Engine, Docker Compose, and Portainer CE pre-installed. The foundation other OliveVPS app recipes build on — perfect when you want full control of your own stack.

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Why a dedicated docker / container VPS beats DIY

You could install Docker CE on a generic $5 VPS. Most people who try spend an evening on the install, another on hardening, another on backups, and then it falls over the first time the kernel updates. We've done that work — every docker / container plan is tuned, monitored, and updateable in one click.

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02 — The stack

What's actually running on your VPS

No black boxes — here's the exact software shipped on every Docker / Container VPS plan.

The Docker / Container VPS image ships with: Docker CE + Docker Compose + Portainer CE. We don't fork or patch — we use the official upstream releases, with sensible defaults for our hardware. Update on your schedule, not ours.

Everything runs in containers via Docker, so updates are atomic. If a release breaks something, roll back to the previous image in 30 seconds. No 'I broke prod by running apt upgrade' moments.

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03 — The hardware

Real cores, real NVMe.

The same KVM hypervisor and enterprise NVMe drives we use across every OliveVPS region.

99.99%
Uptime SLA
10 Gbps
Free DDoS
<30s
Deploy Time
20+
Regions

Pick from 20+ datacenter regions worldwide. Docker / Container VPS VPS pricing stays the same in every region — the hardware specs, the bandwidth allowance, the SSD speed. The only thing that changes is your latency to end users.

Common questions

About Docker / Container VPS hosting.

Why not just install Docker on a generic VPS?

You can — but you'll spend an hour on the daemon config, networking, log rotation, and Portainer setup. Our image is pre-tuned with sane production defaults: rootless mode disabled (compatibility), log-driver set to json-file with rotation, no swarm mode, BuildKit enabled.

Does this support docker-compose v1 syntax?

Yes — Compose v2 reads v1 (`docker-compose.yml`) files identically. Old `version: '3'` files still work. The only thing missing is the legacy `docker-compose` binary itself; we ship the `docker compose` plugin instead.

Can I run Kubernetes (k3s, microk8s) on this?

Yes for k3s — it fits in 2 GB RAM and works alongside Docker. For multi-node Kubernetes, use our Pterodactyl Game Panel VPS or a dedicated server.

Is the Docker socket exposed publicly?

Absolutely not. Docker's API listens only on the Unix socket, group-restricted to the `docker` user. Portainer talks to the socket locally and exposes its own HTTPS endpoint on 9443.

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Full guide available

Want to install this yourself?

We have a complete step-by-step tutorial covering the manual install, configuration, and operational gotchas — useful even if you go with our pre-installed plan.

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