Cheap dedicated server hosting on whole machines, with the trade-offs in writing

The cheapest lines are single Moonshot cartridges, from $9 a month, and the price list above prints each one's processor, memory, disk and port beside its price. Rack servers, with a gigabit port and an out-of-band console, start at $59.46 a month on the lines we keep well stocked; a rack line down to its last few units can list lower in the price list. The entry cartridge, the M700, carries a one-time $13 setup fee.

Yes. Every line here is one physical machine with one tenant. Nothing is virtualised or shared, and there is no neighbour to slow you down. That is the difference from a VPS at a similar price, our own Cloud VPS included.

The hardware came off lease and has already been written down, the servers are ours, and we run our own network instead of reselling someone else's. We lease the floor space in carrier-neutral buildings in four cities, and Bucharest is a room we built. There is no introductory rate and no renewal increase, so the price you sign up on is the price you keep.

Previous-generation processors at modest clocks, 500 Mbps on most cartridges instead of a gigabit, Windows licences on top, and five cartridge lines with power control but no remote console. All seven trade-offs are listed on this page.

Yes. There is no metered tier in the catalogue at any port speed, so there is no allowance to run out of and no overage line on the next invoice. Inbound traffic is not billed either.

No. You pay month to month and can cancel or upgrade whenever you like. Paying three, six or twelve months up front takes 5%, 10% or 15% off, and that is the only way the price moves.

There is no money-back guarantee. You can get 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 crypto payments are excluded.

Usually about half an hour once payment clears. Across 18,922 completed builds the automated build took a median of 24 minutes, and 99.8% finished inside an hour. Payment and fraud review is the part that varies, adding about two hours for half of orders. A line with nothing racked is built to order in 4 to 24 hours.

Every server includes 24/7 support with a 12-hour response commitment and 24-hour hardware replacement. On chat, an AI answers in seconds and can check your account and your server, and a person takes over the moment you ask. Paid tiers shorten both windows and add monitoring, from $19 a month on a rack server. The agreement states no uptime percentage; it credits one day of the monthly charge per cumulative hour of network downtime once an outage passes 15 consecutive minutes.

Yes, in New York, Miami and San Francisco, plus Amsterdam and Bucharest in Europe. The cheapest lines rack in one or two cities each, so the estimator above lets you pick a city and shows the closest match there.

Memory, disks, the RAID level, the port and the number of addresses can all be upgraded in place. Moving to a different machine means a rebuild, so if you know the workload will outgrow this range, start one line up.