When you rent a VPS, you share a physical host with strangers. Their traffic spike is your latency spike; their noisy disk queue is your slow query. Bare metal server hosting in Europe removes that variable entirely — you get the whole machine, every core, every drive, and nobody else scheduling against your CPU. This is a notes-from-the-rack look at how we run single-tenant dedicated servers on our own network, and when it's worth moving off a VPS.
What "single-tenant" actually buys you
On a VPS the hypervisor slices one host across many customers. That's the right tool for a lot of jobs — our hourly VPS starts at EUR4/mo and deploys in about a minute — but the tradeoff is contention. You share the CPU scheduler, the memory bus, and the storage controller. Under overcommit, "8 vCPU" is a claim on a queue, not a guarantee of eight physical threads.
A dedicated bare metal server is the opposite contract: one tenant, one chassis, no overcommit. When we hand you a Dual EPYC 9754 with 256 cores and 512 threads, every one of those threads is yours and idle until you use it. No neighbour can starve your I/O, and your performance profile is flat and predictable from the first hour to the ten-thousandth. For databases, real-time workloads, and anything where p99 latency is the number that matters, that predictability is the whole point.
The hardware we rack
Our dedicated line spans a wide range so you can size to the workload instead of paying for headroom you'll never touch. The entry box is a Dual Xeon E5-2630 v3 — 16 cores, 32 threads, 128GB RAM, 1 Gbps port — at EUR209/mo; AMD EPYC starts at EUR449/mo, and the top of the stack is the Dual EPYC 9754 with 256c/512t and 1TB of RAM. Xeon boxes ship with SSD and EPYC boxes with NVMe. Every server includes one usable IPv4 (a /31) — /29, /28 and /27 subnets are add-ons — and unmetered port options run from 1 Gbps up to 200 Gbps on the EPYC 9754.
| Spec | Bare metal (dedicated) | Hourly VPS |
|---|---|---|
| Tenancy | Single-tenant, no overcommit | Shared host (KVM) |
| Entry price | From EUR209/mo | From EUR4/mo |
| IPv4 | 1 usable IPv4 (/31) included; /29–/27 add-ons | 1x IPv4 (IPv6 free in RO, NL, DE) |
| Port | 1 → 200 Gbps unmetered (by chassis) | Unmetered, 100 → 300 Mbps by plan |
| BGP / own ASN | Own /24 (€25 one-time) or own ASN + /24 (€50), AS60982 | — |
| DDoS protection | 100 Gbps L3/4, included | 100 Gbps L3/4, included |
Intel Xeon servers are typically delivered in about 45 minutes. AMD EPYC servers have a delivery estimate of about 14 days, so plan EPYC capacity ahead of when you need it.
Bare metal server hosting in Europe, on our own AS
The part that separates us from a reseller is that we announce our own network. NODED, a brand of X ZONE IT SRL in Romania, operates AS60982. It reaches the internet through IP transit from one upstream carrier; there is no internet-exchange peering today. When you host bare metal here, your addresses are originated from our own AS rather than a reseller's.
That ownership matters for two reasons. First, BGP: if you bring your own ASN and a /24, we can set up a BGP session to your dedicated server because we run the AS. Second, it's the foundation for bringing your own IP space.
Bring your own IP space (BYOIP)
If you're migrating off another provider and don't want to renumber a fleet, or you carry reputation on your own prefixes, you can announce your own addresses from our network. Our BYOIP options cover two cases: bring an IPv4 /24 and we announce it under AS60982 (no ASN of your own needed), or bring your own ASN plus a /24 for a BGP session with AS60982. Both are order options on dedicated servers (a one-time €25, or €50 with your own ASN); you supply a signed LOA and an RPKI ROA or IRR route object for the prefix. IPv6 BYOIP is not offered. Either way, your prefixes are announced natively from our network, not a NAT'd approximation.
DDoS protection you don't have to configure
Every dedicated server includes 100 Gbps of always-on Layer 3/4 DDoS protection, filtered upstream with nothing to enable. If you need more headroom, higher capacity is an optional per-server add-on — see our DDoS protection tiers. For a single-tenant box running production traffic, that's one fewer external dependency to reason about at 3am.
When bare metal beats a VPS
We don't push everyone to dedicated. Here's how we frame the decision from the NOC side:
- Choose a VPS when you want elastic, hourly-billed capacity, fast teardown, or you're running dev/staging and cost-per-hour matters more than raw isolation.
- Choose bare metal when you need consistent p99 latency, full physical cores, hardware-level control (custom kernels, nested virtualization, specific NIC behaviour), a block of IPs (/29, /28 or /27 add-ons, or your own /24), or you're announcing your own ASN.
- Choose bare metal as a VPS alternative when a large VPS instance costs enough that a whole physical machine — with no overcommit and far more headroom — is simply the better unit economics.
A single dense EPYC box can also become your own virtualization host: run your hypervisor of choice on top and you control the overcommit ratio yourself instead of inheriting someone else's.
How Noded Can Help
We run our own AS, so there's no reseller layer between you and the network. Tell us the workload and we'll size a single-tenant server for it — from the EUR209/mo Dual Xeon up to a 256-core EPYC — with one IPv4 included (larger subnets as add-ons), ports up to 200 Gbps on the EPYC 9754, and 100 Gbps of DDoS protection included from day one. If you're bringing IP space, send us a signed LOA and an RPKI ROA or IRR route object and we'll announce your /24 on AS60982. We target 99.9% monthly availability with a service credit on request; Xeon servers are delivered in about 45 minutes and EPYC in about 14 days. Start on the dedicated server page, or ping us about BGP and BYOIP and we'll scope it before you commit.
FAQ
What is bare metal server hosting?
Bare metal hosting gives you an entire physical server as a single tenant — no hypervisor sharing, no overcommit. Every CPU core, all the RAM, and all the storage are dedicated to you, which gives flat, predictable performance versus a shared VPS.
Where are your bare metal servers located?
In 11 countries: Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain, plus the United States. They are reached over our own AS60982, which connects to the internet through IP transit from one upstream carrier.
Can I announce my own IP space on a NODED bare metal server?
Yes. Bring an IPv4 /24 and we announce it on AS60982, or bring your own ASN plus a /24 for a BGP session — both are order options on dedicated servers, a one-time €25 for the /24 announcement or €50 with your own ASN. You provide a signed LOA and an RPKI ROA or IRR route object; IPv6 BYOIP is not offered. See the BYOIP page for details.
How much does a bare metal server in Europe cost?
Intel Xeon starts at EUR209/mo for a Dual Xeon E5-2630 v3 (16c/32t, 128GB, 1 Gbps), and AMD EPYC starts at EUR449/mo, scaling up to a Dual EPYC 9754 (256c/512t, 1TB). Each server includes one usable IPv4 (a /31) and 100 Gbps of DDoS protection.
Is DDoS protection included with dedicated servers?
Yes. Every dedicated server gets 100 Gbps of always-on Layer 3/4 DDoS protection included; higher capacity is available as a paid per-server add-on.