Directus Data Platform Hosting on Offshore VPS

Most headless CMS platforms force you into their own data model. Directus inverts that: you bring an existing MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or SQL Server schema, and Directus wraps it in a REST and GraphQL API plus a polished admin app. That makes it a perfect fit for legacy migrations, multi-app data layers, or teams that want database control without giving up the CMS UX. Our offshore VPS hosts the Directus Node.js process and your database side by side, or splits them across two VPS instances for production isolation.

Directus 10 and 11 run on Node 18 or 20 LTS with PostgreSQL 13+ as the recommended database. A 2GB AnubizHost plan is enough for most editorial workloads; jump to 4GB or 8GB if you anticipate heavy media uploads or complex flow automations.

Directus Flows let you build event-driven automation directly inside the admin: on item creation trigger a webhook, send an email, transform data, or call an external API. With root access on your AnubizHost VPS you can deploy custom extensions written in TypeScript, run additional Node.js services that listen on the same VPC, and wire Directus to message queues for heavy background work. None of this is possible on most managed CMS clouds.

NVMe storage keeps the admin UI snappy even when your collection count climbs into the hundreds. We recommend keeping uploaded media on an S3-compatible bucket (self-hosted MinIO works perfectly) so your VPS disk does not become the bottleneck on a viral content moment.

Directus is open source and self-hostable, but where you host it dictates which jurisdiction's laws apply to your data. AnubizHost datacenters in Iceland, Romania, Finland, and the Netherlands keep your editorial database in privacy-friendly territory. No KYC at signup, no identity verification, no automatic forwarding of takedown notices. We accept Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, and USDT - your offshore CMS deployment can be paid for entirely with crypto from end to end.

Daily off-server backups protect your Postgres or MySQL database. Snapshots are encrypted at rest and retained for 7 days on a separate AnubizHost node, so a compromised primary VPS does not also burn your backup history. Full root access lets you script your own logical backups via pg_dump or mysqldump on top of the included snapshots.