Best Dedicated Server Hosting in 2026

OVHcloud is a European cloud and hosting company with a large dedicated server business. It reports 44 data centres worldwide and sells several bare metal ranges: Rise (tried-and-tested Intel and AMD platforms), Advance (versatile servers for small and medium businesses), Game, Scale, High Grade and the low-cost Kimsufi brand.

On the US site, Advance servers start at US$98 a month, Game at US$79, Scale at US$689 and High Grade at US$1,263. Every server includes at least 500 Mbps of public bandwidth with burst capability; Advance offers 1–5 Gbps public and 1–6 Gbps private bandwidth. Traffic is unlimited and unmetered except in Asia-Pacific, subject to a fair-use rule under which OVHcloud may cap outgoing bandwidth by up to 50% if it harms other users. There are no setup fees with a commitment.

OVHcloud's strengths are price, unmetered traffic and range. The detailed price list varies by model year and options, and installation fees apply without a commitment.

Hetzner sells dedicated root servers in its AX (AMD), EX (Intel), GPU, SX (storage) and DX (Dell) lines, plus refurbished machines through its Server Auction. Its data centres in Nuremberg, Falkenstein/Vogtland and Helsinki are ISO 27001:2022 certified.

The AX41 starts at €59 a month excluding VAT, with no setup fee and an hourly rate of €0.0945 shown; the AX42 starts at €79 with a €49 setup fee, and the AX102 at €159 with a €129 setup fee. On the Intel side the EX44 starts at €59 with no setup fee and the EX63 at €99 with a €74 setup fee.

Hetzner's €59 entry price is the lowest monthly figure for a current-generation server among the providers in this list. Servers are unmanaged, setup fees apply on many models, and the dedicated line is concentrated in Germany and Finland.

Liquid Web is a managed hosting company whose site links its sister brands Nexcess and Servers.com. Its dedicated servers are sold fully managed, with 99.99% uptime, DDoS protection and 24/7 management, in data centres that it says are regularly assessed for HIPAA, PCI-DSS and GDPR.

The entry server, an Intel Xeon E-2134 with four cores at 3.5 GHz, 16 GB of memory, 480 GB SSD, 500 GB of Acronis backups, 10 TB of bandwidth and cPanel, is listed at US$163.25 a month with a 15% discount for a two-year term. A Xeon E-2246G server is US$312.80 and a Xeon 6526Y with 16 cores and 64 GB is US$577.15 on the same basis. Discounts of 10% for one year and 15% for two years apply to the configurator table.

Liquid Web is aimed at businesses that want the provider to manage the server. Prices are well above unmanaged rivals, and the advertised rates depend on a two-year term.

Vultr sells bare metal servers on the same platform as its cloud compute, deployable by API and managed from the same control panel. Its public API lists bare metal plans from US$120 a month for a four-core Intel Xeon E3-1270 with 32 GB of RAM; six-core Xeon E-2286G and E-2386G configurations follow at US$185 and US$225 a month.

Vultr's API lists 33 regions in total, though bare metal is available in fewer locations than virtual machines. Bare metal can be combined with Vultr's load balancers, block storage and networking.

The service suits teams that already use Vultr or want to manage physical servers with infrastructure-as-code tools. Entry configurations use older Xeon E CPUs, and servers are unmanaged.

phoenixNAP, which describes itself as a global IT services company, sells a Bare Metal Cloud that provisions physical servers through an API and is described as "API-driven dedicated power". Network locations cover the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

The cheapest instance, s0.d1.small, has an Intel E3-1240v3, 16 GB RAM and two 240 GB SSDs for US$0.08 an hour; s0.d1.medium (E3-1270v3, 32 GB) costs US$0.10 an hour, and s1.c1.small (E-2276G, 64 GB, 1 TB NVMe) US$0.16 an hour. Billing is hourly or reserved and can be switched; monthly prices are listed for larger a2-series instances, from US$616.25.

phoenixNAP offers fine-grained hourly billing on physical hardware. Entry instances use older Xeon E3 processors, and reservation discounts are not stated on the pricing page.

Latitude.sh is a bare metal provider offering CPU and GPU servers provisioned on demand. Its pricing page lists each plan with hourly and monthly prices and includes 20 TB of free outbound transfer and unmetered inbound on the configurations shown.

The smallest CPU plan, m4.metal.small, has a six-core AMD 4244P and 48 GB RAM for US$0.41 an hour or US$296 a month; f4.metal.small (12-core AMD 4484PX, 96 GB) costs US$0.55 an hour or US$398 a month. Larger plans run to rs4.metal.xlarge with a 64-core EPYC 9554P and 1,536 GB RAM at US$3,971 a month. GPU plans start with a single H100 at US$1.68 an hour (US$1,230 a month) and go up to eight-GPU HGX B300 systems at US$64 an hour.

Latitude.sh uses current AMD platforms throughout. Its entry price is higher than European providers, and it does not offer managed servers.

Cherry Servers is a bare metal provider offering instant and custom dedicated servers, GPU servers and spot instances. Locations listed include Lithuania, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Chicago, Singapore and Tokyo.

The company states that hourly rates for dedicated servers start at about US$0.091, varying with configuration and billing plan. Fixed-term billing (monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual) offers savings of up to 50% against hourly rates, and a Spot Server option is listed. Custom builds typically take about 24 hours.

Cherry Servers suits developers who want hourly physical servers in Europe. Its plan table loads dynamically, so exact per-model prices must be checked on the configurator, and the footprint is smaller than the large European providers.

Hivelocity sells instant and custom dedicated servers, with optional managed services. The entry configuration, an Intel E-2236 at 3.4 GHz with six cores and 12 threads, 16 GB of memory, a 480 GB SSD and 20 TB of bandwidth on a 1 Gbps port, is priced at US$97 a month. A dual Xeon Scalable 4210 server with 64 GB and 100 TB of bandwidth costs US$355, and a 24-core Threadripper PRO 7965WX with 1 TB of memory US$750.

Custom servers include one IP address, with more at US$2.50 a month each; customers on managed plans can have third-party software installed by Hivelocity, otherwise installation costs a flat US$100 on a best-effort basis.

Hivelocity offers generous bandwidth at moderate prices. Entry hardware is an older Xeon E generation, and management is an add-on.

IONOS sells dedicated servers in AMD (Ryzen Pro and EPYC), Intel (Xeon E and Xeon Scalable), GPU (NVIDIA) and storage families, the last with up to 140 TB of storage and a dedicated OS drive. Features include unlimited bandwidth, RAID, DDoS protection and root access, and the company advertises fixed monthly pricing.

The dedicated server overview does not list plan prices; they appear on the individual AMD, Intel, storage and GPU pages and in a "Server Deals" section of value servers. Prices therefore need to be checked per configuration.

IONOS is a fit for small and medium businesses that already use its domains, email or web hosting. The lack of prices on the overview page makes comparison harder than at Hetzner or OVHcloud.

InterServer's dedicated server list shows configurations with location, network and price. An Intel Xeon E3-1270v6 server with four cores, 64 GB ECC RAM, 4 TB NVMe and an unmetered 1 Gbps connection in the NYC region costs US$116 a month; an AMD Ryzen 5950X server with 16 cores, 64 GB RAM and 2 TB NVMe (1 Gbps on a 10 Gbps port) costs US$148 a month.

The listings make RAM and storage allocations unusually generous for the price. Most configurations shown are in a single region, and the entry Xeon E3 generation is several years old.

Servers.com sells Enterprise Bare Metal (customisable servers), Scalable Bare Metal (hourly rental for demand spikes), AI Compute GPU servers, managed Kubernetes, private racks and private cloud. The site is branded "Servers.com by Nexcess" and links the Nexcess and Liquid Web brands.

It lists 12 data-centre locations: Dallas, Lansing, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington in North America; Amsterdam, London and Luxembourg in Europe; São Paulo; and Hong Kong and Singapore. Use cases highlighted include gaming, fintech, streaming, adtech and iGaming.

The homepage lists no prices, so Servers.com is a quote- and configurator-driven option suited to companies buying fleets of servers rather than a single machine.

Bluehost, known mainly for shared WordPress hosting, sells three managed dedicated server plans with DDR5 memory and NVMe storage, plus a custom option.

Standard NVMe 32 (eight cores, 32 GB DDR5, 1,000 GB NVMe) costs US$144.19 a month on a 36-month term and renews at US$191.79. Enhanced NVMe 64 (16 cores, 64 GB, 2,000 GB) costs US$220.19, renewing at US$274.19, and Premium NVMe 128 (32 cores, 128 GB, 3,000 GB) US$315.19, renewing at US$394.19. VAT and GST are not included.

Bluehost's servers suit existing customers moving up from shared or VPS hosting who want management included. The advertised prices require a three-year commitment, and renewals are about 25–33% higher.

Contabo sells dedicated servers built on AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors, with no setup fees, unlimited traffic and IPMI (iLO) remote management included. Configurations listed include an AMD Ryzen 9 7900 with 12 cores and 64 GB RAM, an AMD EPYC 9224 with 24 cores and 128 GB ECC RAM, and AMD Turin servers with 32 and 64 cores.

Prices are shown in euros and apply to the first 12 months; several models were marked out of stock when the page was read. Because the per-model figures on the page are rendered in split form, exact prices should be checked with the vendor.

Contabo is attractive for its no-setup-fee policy and current AMD hardware. Stock availability is variable, and pricing changes after the promotional period.