Cheap dedicated servers
Whole physical machines on enterprise hardware that has already paid for itself. Where the price comes from, what it buys, and what you give up to pay this little.
Price estimate
Looking for about 32 GB of memory on SSD.
Price and specification are read out of the same record, so they always describe the same machine. Monthly, excluding VAT where it applies. Paying for three, six or twelve months up front takes 5%, 10% and 15% off.
01 — Range
Read off the live catalogue as this page rendered. Each row is a line rather than a single machine, and the price is the cheapest configuration of it currently racked — which is why the specification beside it belongs to that same machine and never to a different one.
| Line | From | Processor | Memory | Storage | Port | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M700 | $18.00/mo | AMD Opteron X2150 APU, 4 cores 1.1GHz | 8 GB | SATA-SSD 64 GB | 500 Mbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| M300 | $31.20/mo | Intel Atom C2750 Processor, 8 core 2.4 GHz | 8–32 GB | SATA 500 GB | 500 Mbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| M710p | $42.98/mo | Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 Quad Core 2.90 GHz | 8–32 GB | SATA-SSD 256 GB | 500 Mbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| M710x | $47.98/mo | Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz | 8–64 GB | NVMe-SSD 240 GB | 1 Gbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| M710 | $48.98/mo | Intel Xeon E3-1284L v3 Quad Core 1.80 GHz | 8–32 GB | SATA-SSD 960 GB | 500 Mbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| M400 | $49.49/mo | X-Gene Octa-Core ARM v8 64-bit | 64 GB | SATA-SSD 256 GB | 500 Mbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| D102 | $54.80/mo | Intel Xeon L5640 Hex Core 2.27 GHz | 48 GB | 2 x SATA 500 GB | 500 Mbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| D104 | $57.57/mo | Intel Xeon E5-2630L v3 Octo Core 1.80 GHz | 16–256 GB | 2 x SATA-SSD 240 GB | 1 Gbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| D103 | $59.46/mo | Intel Xeon E5-2650L v2 Deca Core 1.70 GHz | 16–256 GB | 2 x SATA-SSD 240 GB | 1 Gbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| D103D | $63.85/mo | AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz | 16 GB | 2 x SATA-SSD 240 GB | 500 Mbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| M510 | $66.18/mo | Intel Xeon D-1587 Hexadeca Core 1.70 GHz | 16–128 GB | NVMe-SSD 1.92 TB | 1 Gbps Unmetered | Configure → |
| D105 | $73.88/mo | 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16 Core 2.10 GHz | 16–128 GB | 2 x SATA-SSD 960 GB | 1 Gbps Unmetered | Configure → |
02 — Mechanism
No trick, and no promotion running out in three months. Three things account for the whole difference, and each of them is checkable.
We buy HPE enterprise kit when it comes off lease, rack it in halls we run ourselves, and pass on what we did not spend. The machine is not crippled and the price is not a promotion — the capital behind it was written down years ago.
We own the racks and we run the network they sit on. Our routes are announced under our own number, which anyone can check in about thirty seconds. Nothing here is resold, so no one takes a margin on the way.
The catalogue carries 87 processor options and boots images going back to Ubuntu 14.04. Keeping a line orderable long after the industry has moved on is the mechanism behind the price, not an oversight.
The network is AS19624, held by SERVERROOM — Data Room, Inc — check the holder at bgp.tools.
03 — Comparison
The budget tier’s open secret is that it mostly runs consumer parts. These are the published entry configurations of three pages that outrank this one, read in August 2026.
| Server Room | ReliableSite, $49 | OVHcloud Eco, $10 | IONOS value tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | ECC, registered | Non-ECC, unregistered DDR3 | ECC | Not stated |
| Processor class | Server processors, previous generation | A 2009 desktop chip | Server processor, 2017 | Not stated on the page |
| Storage | SSD or NVMe on most lines | SSD | Two spinning SATA disks | Not stated on the page |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered. There is no metered tier in the catalogue at all | Capped at 5 TB a month | Unlimited traffic | Not stated on the page |
| Out-of-band console | HPE iLO on every rack server, at no charge | KVM, advertised | Not stated | Not stated |
| Published uptime SLA | 99.9% | None on that page | 99.9%, no terms given | None — the word SLA does not appear |
| Setup fee | None, except one line at $13 | None | One month, waived on a year | None on the value tier |
| Can you actually buy it today | Yes | Yes | Most of the catalogue says Coming Soon | Yes |
Entry configurations as published by each provider, checked August 2026. Ours is not in this table on purpose: the estimator above reads a real machine and prints its price and its specification out of the same record.
Provider by provider, in detail: how we compare.
04 — Deductions
Every page selling a cheap server lists only the upside, so you are right to be looking for the catch. Here is ours, in full, before you pay rather than after.
The cheapest lines are previous-generation processors at modest clocks. They are whole machines and they are not fast per core. If your workload is one thread racing a clock, buy further up the range and pay for it.
One-off, on that one cartridge line, and nowhere else in the range. It makes the first month cost more than the sticker. We would rather you read it here than find it at the checkout.
Unmetered either way — there is no metered tier anywhere in the catalogue — but a gigabit on a cartridge is an upgrade at $79 a month, where the rack servers include it. Read the port on the machine, not the headline.
The licence is charged per core on top of the machine. On the cheapest server that roughly triples the bill, which is worth knowing before you plan around the sticker. Linux is free on every line.
Every rack server reports HPE iLO with a full console. Our own records do not confirm it on some cartridges, and we would rather say so than let you find out.
Only a handful of lines rack in all five locations, and the cheapest live in one or two. If latency is what matters, pick the city first and let the catalogue show what is racked there.
No live migration, no resizing in place, no snapshot of a running system and no per-second billing. One tenant, one machine, and you plan capacity yourself.
05 — Argument
The newest processor is rarely the cheapest way to get work done. Three numbers make that case better than we could, and none of them is ours.
Across reported component failures, hard drives account for roughly 82% and processors for 0.04%. The part you are buying second-hand is the part with the lowest failure rate in the machine. The parts that do fail — disks and power supplies — are the ones we replace under the same four-hour commitment as every other tier.
Advanced Hosting, on previous-generation server economicsEnterprise servers are reported to run at 12% to 18% of capacity on average. A machine two generations back is still far more computer than most workloads ever ask for, which is why the sensible question is what you need rather than what is newest.
Advanced HostingServer memory and flash prices rose sharply through 2025 and into 2026, and the large vendors have announced double-digit increases. A range built on hardware that was bought years ago is the one part of the market that is insulated from that.
Cherry Servers, on dedicated server pricing06 — Decision
At this budget that is the real choice, and the answer is not always this one.
when the machine spends most of its life idle, when you need it for a week, or when you want to rebuild it from an image several times a day. Small and elastic is genuinely what a VPS is good at, and a whole server sitting at two percent is money you did not need to spend.
when you are already paying for a large VPS, when the workload is steady rather than spiky, when you need the disk to behave predictably, or when you have been throttled by a neighbour you cannot see. At the bottom of this range a whole machine costs about what a mid-sized VPS does, and nobody else is on it.
What the category means and what it trades away: bare metal cloud, explained. Already running somewhere else: moving a live server.
07 — Terms
Contractual rather than seasonal — none of it changes with what is on the shelf.
| Rack servers from | $57.57 a month | The cheapest well-stocked rack line, read live as the page renders |
| Cartridges from | $18 a month | A single Moonshot cartridge, one job each — see the deductions above |
| Ceiling for this page | $100 a month | Above that, see the full range |
| Setup fee | Every line except one | Zero everywhere but the entry cartridge, which carries a one-off $13 |
| Minimum term | None | Month to month, cancel or upgrade at will |
| Prepay discount | 5%, 10%, 15% | For three, six and twelve months |
| Renewal increase | None | No introductory rate anywhere in the catalogue |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered | No metered tier exists at any speed; inbound is not billed |
| Port included | 500 Mbps or 1 Gbps | Gigabit is included on the rack servers |
| Port ceiling | 20 Gbps | Ten gigabit is $529 a month |
| IP addresses | One IPv4 and one IPv6 | Extra IPv4 from $6 a month, on some lines |
| Memory | Registered ECC | On every line |
| RAID | Hardware RAID, included | Battery-backed controller; JBOD also available |
| Out-of-band console | HPE iLO, no extra charge | On every rack server; not confirmed on some cartridges |
| Operating systems | 33 images | Ubuntu 14.04 through 26.04; Windows is a paid licence |
| Support included | 24/7, 12-hour response | Four-hour hardware replacement; faster tiers from $39 |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% | Published |
| Refund window | Three days from activation | Less a 15% fee; crypto and built-to-order excluded |
| Locations | Five | New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest |
| Network | AS19624 | Our own routes, verifiable at bgp.tools |
| Operating since | 2004 | Data Room, Inc. in New York and Data Room SRL in Bucharest |
The port ladder: unmetered bandwidth and 10 Gbps ports. What each part costs on its own: pricing. The refund terms in full: refund policy.
08 — Where
The cheapest machines rack in one or two cities each, not five. If latency matters, choose the city first — each page below shows what is racked there.
09 — Questions
Price, contract, setup, refunds and how long it really takes. Two of the three pages ranking above this one answer none of these.
The entry machine is a single Moonshot cartridge — a four-core AMD Opteron with 8 GB of memory and a small SSD, on an unmetered 500 Mbps port. It is the only line in the range that carries a setup fee, a one-off $13, so the first month costs more than the monthly figure. Live prices are read straight from the shelf on this page.
Yes. Every line here is one physical machine with one tenant. Nothing is virtualised, nothing is shared, and there is no neighbour to be throttled by. That is the difference between this and a VPS at a similar price.
The hardware came off lease and has already been depreciated, we own the racks it sits in, and we run the network under our own number rather than reselling somebody else’s. There is no introductory rate and no renewal step-up anywhere in the catalogue — the figure you sign up on is the figure you keep.
The processors are previous-generation and modest in clock speed, most of the cheapest lines run at 500 Mbps rather than a gigabit, Windows licences cost extra on top, and out-of-band access is not confirmed on every cartridge. Those are set out in full on this page rather than left to be discovered.
There is no metered tier in the catalogue to choose, at any speed. No allowance to exhaust, no overage line on next month’s invoice. Copying data in costs nothing at any volume, because inbound is not billed either.
No. Month to month, cancel or upgrade whenever you like. Paying for three, six or twelve months up front takes 5%, 10% or 15% off, and that is the only thing that moves the price — downward, and only if you choose it.
There is no money-back guarantee, and we would rather say so than imply one. What there is: a refund if we fail to provision the machine, or on request within three calendar days of activation, pro-rated and less a 15% administrative fee. Built-to-order machines and payments made in crypto are outside that.
The build itself normally runs about half an hour; across 18,922 completed builds the median was 24 minutes and 99.8% finished inside the hour. What usually separates that from the machine being in your hands is payment and fraud review, which adds a couple of hours to about half of orders.
Every server includes the Basic tier at no charge: 24/7 cover with a 12-hour response commitment and four-hour hardware replacement, against a 99.9% availability SLA. Faster response tiers start at $39 a month. Almost nobody on this range buys one, which is the honest thing to say about them.
Memory, disks, the RAID level, the port and the number of addresses are all upgradable in place. Moving to a different machine means a rebuild, so if you already know the workload will grow past this range, start at the line above it rather than the cheapest one.
10 — Us
Operating since 2004 as Data Room, Inc. in New York and Data Room SRL in Bucharest. A page arguing that it is cheap and also real ought to be easy to verify from outside it.
