Is Riga a good hub for serving all three Baltic states?
Yes. Latvia sits in the middle of the Baltics, and routes from Riga to Tallinn and Vilnius are short, typically only a few milliseconds. Many companies with customers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania run a single Riga server with three language versions of their site. Stockholm and Helsinki are also close via submarine and overland links. If your business later needs a local presence in each country for regulatory reasons, our Tallinn and Vilnius locations run on the same platform and can be linked to your Riga server over fast connections.
Can I run a logistics or freight-tracking portal from Riga?
Riga's port and rail connections make it a centre for Baltic logistics, and many freight forwarders need portals that customers and drivers check throughout the day. Middle tiers carry most tracking systems, and NVMe keeps searches through years of shipment history quick. The unmetered gigabit port copes with document uploads such as scanned delivery notes and customs paperwork. For integrations with partners in Poland, Finland or Scandinavia, short Baltic routes keep API calls responsive. Drivers checking delivery slots from their phones also benefit from the short domestic path.
Will Latvian diacritics display correctly?
Yes. Latvian uses letters such as ā, č, ē, ģ, ī, ķ, ļ, ņ, š, ū and ž, and all of them display correctly with the UTF-8 encoding our images use by default. When creating a database, choose utf8mb4 with a Latvian collation so that sorting follows Latvian alphabetical order. Domain names containing Latvian characters work through standard internationalised domain name support. If you migrate a site that used the older Windows-1257 encoding, convert it during the move to prevent broken characters appearing in product names or articles.
How quickly is a Riga server ready?
A Latvian instance is generally active within a few hours of payment, and never more than a day. You will get an email with the address and password; the client area adds power controls, a console and traffic charts. Panels selected during ordering are installed in advance. Provisioning runs through weekends and Latvian public holidays such as Jāņi. Need it by a certain day? Most customers are logged in and installing software the same day they order, even when the order is placed late in the evening Riga time.
What protection is there against DDoS attacks?
Every Riga plan includes network-level filtering that detects volumetric floods and discards them before they reach your port. Legitimate traffic continues to flow while the attack is scrubbed upstream. This covers the most common attack types, which aim to saturate bandwidth. Layer-7 abuse, such as scripted checkout spam, still needs server-side defences like request limits or a CAPTCHA on sensitive forms. If an attack seems to get through, open a ticket and our network team will look into it. Filtering is always on and costs nothing extra.
Can I use Windows for accounting software in Latvia?
Yes. Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 Pro are offered at the same price as Linux, so a Riga Windows server is a sensible home for bookkeeping, payroll or warehouse software that several employees reach by Remote Desktop. Data stays in Latvia rather than on one office computer. A second-tier plan usually fits a small Riga office; add memory as more clerks connect. Check your vendor's licence terms for virtual machines before installing, and schedule backups of the application database.
What is the difference between shared and dedicated resources here?
Your CPU cores and memory are reserved exclusively for your VM, so they are effectively dedicated; other customers cannot use them even when your server is idle. The network port is shared, which is standard for virtual servers and rarely a limitation because each host's uplink has plenty of capacity. Storage is on shared NVMe arrays, but KVM ensures fair access. The result is performance close to a small dedicated server at a fraction of the price, with the added benefit of instant upgrades.
Who looks after problems with the hardware?
We do. Our engineers monitor the hosts in Riga and replace failed drives, memory or power supplies as soon as issues appear. If your server stops responding, they can force a restart from the hypervisor, and if you want a clean system they will reinstall it. Anything inside the operating system, such as application errors, updates or firewall rules, is yours to manage on an unmanaged plan. The ticket desk never closes. Hardware repairs never appear on your invoice, and you will be told by email if any maintenance affects your host.
