Leaseweb's cheapest server is €51.26 a month - a promotional rate on a Xeon E3-1230v2 that first shipped in 2012, sitting in Frankfurt, and only on a one-year contract (€56.96 month to month). Around it sits the fine print: VAT on top, a metered 30 TB volume as standard, a €49 setup fee on month-to-month custom builds, and up to five business days once you touch the spec. An unmetered 10 Gbps port is a different product line starting near €960/mo. Server Room starts at $5/mo, ships in about 30 minutes, and puts the unmetered port in the price.
The network is genuinely excellent. The friction is everything wrapped around the server.
Three dual-socket Intel Xeon pairings at matching core counts, memory and disks - with their contract term and traffic allowance counted in.
The same processor on both sides, the same memory and the same disks - and ours is the cheaper of the two, before VAT is added to theirs. Fair warning: Frankfurt currently runs this box on promo at €104.53, which undercuts us until the discount lapses.
Twelve cores per socket either way, matching memory, matching disks, and roughly the same money. What separates them is an unmetered port instead of a 30 TB allowance, month-to-month pricing against their one-year rate, and Gold-tier silicon against their Silver.
Eight more cores than their R750 on the same 128 GB and the same disks, and cheaper before VAT. If you need more than 40, their 48-core R750 with the 5318Y is the one to look at - €269.12, still metered at 30 TB.
Leaseweb figures were read in September 2026 from their configurator and their public catalog, sorted cheapest-first. Note their listings count cores per processor, so a dual-socket machine holds twice the number shown. Euro prices exclude VAT, and promotional rates appear crossed out beside a higher standard rate - we print both. At the very bottom of the range they win outright: their cheapest server is €51.26 promo on a one-year term (€56.96 month to month) against $84.13 for our nearest 32 GB, 2× 2 TB build. Leaseweb charges no setup fee on stock servers or one-year terms and €49 on month-to-month custom builds. Our figures are configurator totals for custom builds, which add a one-time $29 setup fee; instant servers in stock have none, apart from $13 on the $5 entry server.
Specs settle half the decision. Fees, contracts, traffic and how long you wait settle the rest.
| Server Room | Leaseweb | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry dedicated server | From $5 / mo + $13 setup | From €51.26 / mo promo in Frankfurt on a one-year term (€56.96 month to month), plus VAT |
| Setup fees | $13 on the $5 entry server, none on other instant servers; $29 once on custom builds | None on stock servers or one-year terms; €49 on month-to-month custom builds |
| Deployment time | ~30 minutes; custom builds within 24h | 1 hour on stock configs, up to 5 business days once configured; longer on a first order pending KYC |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered as standard; 10 Gbps available as a paid upgrade | Metered 30 TB volume as standard |
| Cost of unmetered 10 Gbps | A port upgrade on any build | A separate product line - from about €958/mo |
| Contract terms | Month to month at the listed price | Month-to-month available; the 10% discount needs a 1-year term |
| cPanel | $49.50/mo add-on (Premier, 100 domains) - or the free ISPConfig panel | Defaults to no control panel - licence is a paid option |
| Buying process | Self-serve checkout, no sales call | Hundreds of SKUs, sales-led for anything non-standard |
| Migration help | Planning free on every tier; hands-on app work is paid - documented plan | Self-service |
Leaseweb is the right answer when you need a nine-region footprint, a colocation cage beside your servers, and a named account manager to sign it all off. Server Room is the right answer when you'd rather not sign the one-year term, pay the tax line or sit through the five-day wait - and when an unmetered port should be a checkbox rather than a €958/mo product line. From $5/mo, month to month, running in about 30 minutes, and a documented plan for moving off Leaseweb.
