Bare Metal Infrastructure for Performance-Critical Workloads

Dell PowerEdge, Gigabyte, and Supermicro across the fleet. We don’t use whitebox hardware in the standard catalogue.

A bare metal dedicated server is a physical server assigned only to you. It is not shared with other users. It is also not split into virtual machines. You get direct access to the server’s hardware and resources.

We mitigate the full range of network-layer attacks: volumetric floods (UDP, ICMP, and TCP floods, plus reflection/amplification attacks against DNS, NTP, memcached, and similar), protocol-layer attacks (SYN floods, ACK floods, fragmentation and malformed-packet attacks), and multi-vector attacks that combine several techniques at once.

If attack volume exceeds what we can absorb upstream, we blackhole the targeted IP — dropping all traffic to it, malicious and legitimate, until the attack subsides. We notify the account owner when this happens. For uptime-critical workloads, we recommend pairing this with redundant IPs or Anycast where applicable.

No. It’s enabled by default on all applicable resources — Cloud Compute, Colocation, Bare Metal, and GPU — and active the moment your resource goes live. There’s nothing to configure.

No. This service mitigates network-layer attacks only (Layers 3 and 4). Application-layer threats — HTTP floods, slowloris, API abuse, credential stuffing, malicious bots — require a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or an edge service such as Cloudflare or Akamai in front of your application.

A bare metal server runs directly on physical hardware. Your workload uses the server’s compute, memory, storage, and network resources without sharing them with other tenants. There is no virtual layer dividing the server into smaller environments.

In hosting, “bare metal” means the server runs on dedicated physical hardware. It is not a virtual server running on shared infrastructure. This gives you full access to the underlying resources.

Bare metal uses a full physical server for one customer. VPS hosting uses shared physical hardware that is divided into virtual servers. Bare metal gives you dedicated resources and more consistent performance. VPS is usually more flexible and lower cost, but resources are shared.

Bare metal is a good choice when you need dedicated resources, low latency, or more control over the hardware. It also makes sense for workloads that need predictable performance. This is common for databases, gaming, streaming, and other demanding applications.

A free, always-on service that automatically protects your Netrouting infrastructure—Cloud Compute, Colocation, Bare Metal, and GPU—from network-layer (L3/L4) DDoS attacks. No configuration required.

Bare metal does not share physical resources with other tenants. It also avoids the extra overhead that comes with virtualization. That helps deliver more stable performance and lower latency.

Bare metal is well-suited for workloads that need strong and predictable performance. Common examples include web hosting, video streaming, VPN hosting, gaming, databases, big data processing, and high-performance computing. It is also a good fit for applications that need dedicated resources and more control.

Database workloads often need fast storage, low latency, and steady access to system resources. Bare metal helps by providing dedicated compute, memory, and storage. This can improve consistency for demanding database workloads.

Each city page lists its public test IP and 100 MB / 1 GB / 10 GB speed test files. Use them with curl, wget, or a browser-based speed-test tool to measure latency and throughput from your location. Our looking glass also exposes BGP and traceroute data on demand.

Big data and high-performance computing workloads often process large volumes of data and require high throughput. They also need predictable performance and dedicated hardware. Bare metal is a strong fit because it gives direct access to physical resources.

We support a wide range of operating systems. VyOS is the preferred option and has been tested most extensively. Proxmox, AlmaLinux, and CentOS are also supported. VMware ESXi supports ISO files, so you can install your own operating system if needed. Other supported options include Arch Linux, Rocky Linux, Debian, and Fedora.