Infrastructure for builders
We started LankaServers in 2019 to give every developer enterprise-grade hosting at a price that finally makes sense — backed by humans who care.
Built on three core ideas
Every decision — from chip selection to support scripts — flows from these.
Mission
Make world-class hosting accessible, transparent, and delightful for every team — from solo founders to global engineering orgs.
Vision
Power the next million internet businesses with infrastructure that disappears into the background and just works.
Values
Honesty in pricing, obsession with performance, and genuine human support — written by engineers, not scripted bots.
Our story
LankaServers was born from frustration with bloated, opaque hosting providers — the kind that lure you in with $1 promotions then triple your bill at renewal, hide critical features behind upsells, and route every support ticket through a chatbot that never quite understands the question.
We knew developers deserved better. Fast NVMe storage. Honest pricing that doesn't change at renewal. Free SSL, free backups, free WHOIS privacy — the things that should never have been "premium" in the first place. And support staffed by engineers who actually understand the stack you're running.
Today we power thousands of websites, APIs, and applications across the globe — from bootstrapped indie hackers to scaling enterprises. Our customers ship faster on LankaServers because we obsess over the boring stuff so they don't have to.
We're a small, distributed team based in Colombo and Dubai, working in close partnership with our customers. We answer our own tickets. We read every feedback email. And we're just getting started.
How we operate
Four principles that show up in every product decision and support reply.
Speed is a feature
Every millisecond matters. We tune kernels, pick the fastest NVMe drives, and run on Tier-3 networks so your sites feel instant.
Security by default
Free SSL, DDoS shielding, daily backups, and isolated containers ship on every plan — not as paid add-ons buried in upsells.
Honest pricing forever
Renewal rates equal sign-up rates. No teaser pricing, no surprise fees, no contract lock-ins. Cancel anytime, keep your data.
Support that listens
Real engineers on chat, WhatsApp, and email. We treat every ticket like our own production incident — because that's how it feels to you.
The journey
From a small Colombo office to global edge.
- 192019
First servers go live
Started in Colombo with a handful of bare-metal nodes and a promise: hosting that respects your time and budget.
- 212021
Expanded to UAE
Opened a Middle East presence to cut latency for regional customers. Crossed 1,000 active websites.
- 232023
Multi-region edge
Anycast DNS, global CDN, and NVMe-only storage rolled out. Average page load dropped under 200ms worldwide.
- 252025
12,000+ sites & growing
Trusted by indie hackers, agencies, and scaling startups across 30+ countries — and we're still just getting started.
Enterprise-grade stack
We don't cut corners on hardware or networking. Every plan — even the entry tier — runs on the same infrastructure powering production workloads for our largest customers.
- AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPUs
- Enterprise NVMe SSD storage
- 10 Gbps redundant uplinks
- LiteSpeed & Nginx web servers
- Anycast DNS in 30+ PoPs
- Daily off-site backups (30-day retention)
- Imunify360 malware protection
- Free Let's Encrypt SSL automation