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 NVMe lane, 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 a median 47 seconds — 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 E5-2630v4 — 16 cores, 32 threads, 128GB RAM — at EUR209/mo, and the top of the stack is the Dual EPYC 9754 with 256c/512t and 1TB of RAM. Everything ships on NVMe, with a /29 of IPv4 included and symmetric port options from 1 Gbps all the way to 200 Gbps.
| Spec | Bare metal (dedicated) | Hourly VPS |
|---|---|---|
| Tenancy | Single-tenant, no overcommit | Shared host (KVM) |
| Entry price | From EUR209/mo | From EUR4/mo |
| IPv4 | /29 included | 1x IPv4 + IPv6 |
| Port | 1 → 200 Gbps symmetric | 1 Gbps unmetered symmetric |
| BGP / own ASN | On request (AS60982) | — |
| DDoS protection | 1 Tbps, free | 1 Tbps, free |
Typical stock time to rack a machine is around 47 minutes — not the multi-day lead time you get from providers who order hardware after you pay. When we say from stock, we mean it's already in the rack.
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 operates AS60982 across 13 European POPs, peering at 15 internet exchanges with 34+ carriers over a 400 Gbps DWDM ring. Intra-EU latency sits under 5ms. When you host bare metal here, your packets ride our own backbone rather than transiting somebody else's blend of cheap transit.
That ownership matters for two reasons. First, routing control: if you need a specific path, a peering adjustment, or BGP sessions to your machine, we can actually make that change 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 program advertises your space on AS60982 — minimum /24 for IPv4, /48 for IPv6 — with RPKI/ROA set up correctly, and we handle the LOA and IRR paperwork. Once it's live, your prefixes ride the same 13-POP anycast footprint as our own space. This is a genuine dedicated-server-with-own-ASN setup, not a NAT'd approximation.
DDoS protection you don't configure or pay extra for
Every dedicated server includes our 1 Tbps DDoS mitigation at no cost — L3, L4, and L7, with detection under 8 seconds. There's no scrubbing add-on to buy and no "protected IP" upsell. It's inline on the network we own, which is why we can absorb volumetric floods before they reach your uplink. 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 /29 of clean IPs, 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 the hardware, the network, and the AS ourselves, so there's no middle layer between you and the machine. 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 a /29, symmetric ports up to 200 Gbps, and free 1 Tbps DDoS from day one. If you're bringing IP space, we'll handle the LOA, IRR, and RPKI and announce it on AS60982 for you. Everything backs onto a 99.9% SLA, and stock is usually ready to rack in under an hour. 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 the full NVMe storage are dedicated to you, which gives flat, predictable performance versus a shared VPS.
Where are your bare metal servers located?
In our own European datacenters, reachable across 13 POPs on AS60982 with 15 IX peerings and sub-5ms intra-EU latency. Traffic rides our own 400 Gbps DWDM ring rather than blended third-party transit.
Can I announce my own IP space on a NODED bare metal server?
Yes. Through our BYOIP program you can announce your own prefixes on AS60982 — minimum /24 for IPv4 and /48 for IPv6 — with RPKI/ROA configured and the LOA and IRR paperwork handled by us. See the BYOIP page for details.
How much does a bare metal server in Europe cost?
Pricing starts at EUR209/mo for a Dual Xeon E5-2630v4 (16c/32t, 128GB) and scales up to a Dual EPYC 9754 (256c/512t, 1TB). Each server includes a /29 of IPv4 and free 1 Tbps DDoS protection.
Is DDoS protection included with dedicated servers?
Yes, at no extra cost. Every dedicated server gets 1 Tbps of L3/L4/L7 mitigation with sub-8-second detection, inline on our own network — no scrubbing add-on and no protected-IP upsell.