Dedicated servers

A dedicated server is yours alone: you share cores, memory, disks and uplink with nobody. The machines are in our partners' data centres in Frankfurt am Main, see Data centres.

Two ways

On the Dedicated servers page you choose between Offers, AMD and Intel at the top.

Offers: order right away

Pre-configured machines that are available right now, with a fixed configuration and a sale price. Each one lists CPU, cores and threads, RAM, storage, a setup fee (or No setup fee) and the location.

1. Add to cart.
2. In the cart, choose Operating system and Term (1, 3, 6 or 12 months).
3. Place order with obligation to pay. You pay from your credit.

If a machine is already gone when you order, you get the amount back automatically. If nothing is available, the page says so. New machines appear there by themselves.

AMD Ryzen and Intel Xeon series: by request

• AMD Ryzen: high clock speeds for anything that depends on one core, such as game servers, databases, build machines.
• Intel Xeon: many cores and plenty of memory, two CPUs on request, for virtualisation and anything that computes in parallel.

How it works:

1. Send a request: pick a machine and send us your wishes for RAM, disks and system. The button opens an email to us.
2. Confirm the offer: we tell you the price and delivery time for your configuration.
3. Activation: after payment from your credit we set up the machine and activate it.

If you need a configuration that is not listed, tell us what the machine needs to do.

After delivery

Your dedicated server is listed under Services with the VPS and has the same sections as a VPS: Overview, Console, System, Network, Usage, Backups and Settings. Some things go through the partner's data centre:

• System: reinstall, reset root password, Rescue system, Hostname and stored SSH keys. Here the new root password arrives by email from the data centre, not under Credentials. Stored SSH keys are installed with the next reinstall.
• Network: addresses and reverse DNS. Outgoing port 25 is blocked. For your own mail server you can request unblocking there.
• Usage: traffic per day and DDoS incidents detected by the data centre's filter.
• Backups: snapshots of the whole disk that you create, lock, restore or delete. Locked backups are not replaced automatically.
• Settings: emails from the data centre about high traffic or a DDoS attack, and the status at the data centre.

What the VPS articles say about the individual sections (Console, System, Network) broadly applies here too.

Term

You renew in the Overview under Term, from your credit, just like a VPS. There is no subscription. Renew in time, see Renewing and cancelling.

We answer questions about dedicated servers in a ticket.