Bare metal, we run it
Managed Dedicated
A physical server without hiring someone to look after it.
You want the isolation and the licensing economics of bare metal, and you want patching, monitoring, hardening and incident response to be somebody else's calendar entry.
What it costs
| Size | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 7 7700 · 8c/16t · 64 GB DDR5 ECC · 2 × 1 TB NVMe | 8 | 64 GB | 2 TB | $299 | $3,299 |
| Ryzen 9 7950X · 16c/32t · 128 GB DDR5 ECC · 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe | 16 | 128 GB | 3.8 TB | $409 | $4,499 |
| EPYC 4585PX · 16c/32t · 192 GB DDR5 ECC · 2 × 3.84 TB NVMe | 16 | 192 GB | 7.5 TB | $559 | $6,099 |
What you are buying
| Virtualisation | None — single-tenant physical hardware |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen or EPYC, listed per configuration |
| Storage | NVMe, local to the host |
| Network | 1 Gbit/s, unmetered |
| Traffic | Unmetered — we do not bill by the gigabyte |
| IPv4 | 1 included, up to 5 available |
| IPv6 | A /64 block, free |
| Root access | Yes, on request — we hold it by default |
| Console | IPMI / KVM-over-IP |
| Rescue mode | Yes, bootable from your dashboard |
| Reinstall | Self-service, any supported OS, no charge |
| Resize | Hardware swap — talk to us |
| Setup fee | None |
| Provisioning | Typically 24 hours to 7 working days depending on configuration |
| Managed by | Aibuz engineers — setup, hardening, patching, monitoring, incident response |
| Response target | Under 1 hour for anything down, during support hours |
Options you choose at checkout
Physical drives fitted before handover. Not every chassis has free bays — if the configuration you picked is full we will tell you before we take the order, not after. Adding drives after handover means a maintenance window.
Agent-based backups to a separate datacentre. Restores are engineer-assisted.
Reinstall to a different OS any time from your dashboard — it wipes the disk, so take a backup first.
Licences are billed with the server. Cancel or change the panel at renewal, or any time on an upgrade.
A /64 IPv6 block is included free on every server and is not counted here. More than 5 IPv4? Message us — it needs a justification we file with the registry.
Pick the one closer to most of your visitors. Not sure? Tell us where your traffic comes from and we will place it for you.
e.g. srv1.yourdomain.com — used for the reverse DNS record. You can change it later.
What you get
Where it runs
Nuremberg, Germany and Manassas, United States. KVM virtualisation on AMD EPYC with DDR5 ECC memory. NVMe on the Cloud, Managed and Dedicated lines; enterprise SSD on Lite and Storage.
You choose which datacentre your server is provisioned in at checkout. Pick the one closer to where most of your users are — Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia are usually best served from Nuremberg, and the Americas from Manassas. Not sure? Tell us where your traffic comes from and we will place it for you.
Real engineers on WhatsApp, Monday to Saturday, 05:00–14:00 UTC.
The small print, in plain words
| Billing | Monthly or annual. Annual works out around 10% cheaper than twelve monthly payments. |
|---|---|
| Renewal | Renews at the same price you signed up at. No introductory pricing anywhere in this catalogue. |
| Upgrades | Moving between hardware configurations means a new machine and a migration window. We will plan it with you and prorate the difference. |
| Downgrades | At renewal only. Disks cannot be shrunk safely, so a downgrade means a rebuild — plan for it. |
| Cancellation | Cancel any time from your dashboard. The server runs to the end of the paid period, then stops. |
| Data after cancellation | Disks are held for 7 days after expiry, then securely wiped. Take your data out before then. |
| Refunds | Seven days on a first VPS order, no argument. Dedicated servers and any month with a licence fee already paid to a third party are not refundable. |
| Acceptable use | No spam, no phishing, no bulk scanning, no torrent trackers for pirated material, nothing that will get our IP ranges blacklisted. Read the AUP before you order — we enforce it. |
| Suspension | Abuse reports get you an email and a window to fix it, except for active outbound attacks, which we null-route first and email second. |
| What managed covers | The operating system, the services we installed, security patching, backups and monitoring. Your application code is yours — we will help debug it, but we will not write it under this contract. |
| Support hours | Monitoring is 24/7 and automated response is 24/7. Human engineers are on Monday to Saturday, 05:00–14:00 UTC, plus out-of-hours callout for anything down. |
Questions people actually ask
Why can I not pick CPU, RAM and disk separately?
Because almost every combination you could build that way is a machine that performs badly. One vCPU with 64 GB of RAM is not a bargain, it is a bottleneck with expensive memory attached. We size CPU, memory and storage together so that whichever notch you pick, the machine is balanced. If you genuinely need an unusual ratio — a lot of memory against few cores, say — message us and we will quote it as a custom build.
Can I make it bigger later?
Yes, but it means different physical hardware. We provision the new machine, help you migrate, and prorate the difference. Plan on a maintenance window.
What does unmetered traffic actually mean?
It means we do not count your gigabytes and we do not invoice you for them. The port speed listed is the real limit. If a single server starts saturating a shared uplink continuously we will call you and talk about a dedicated port — you will not discover it through a bill.
Where are the servers?
Nuremberg, Germany and Manassas, United States. You choose which one at checkout. Moving to the other one later means a rebuild, so pick with your audience in mind — or tell us where your traffic comes from and we will place it for you.
Do I get root access?
You can have it on request, but by default we hold it — that is what makes the machine manageable. If you want the root password permanently, buy the self-managed line instead; it is cheaper and it is the honest product for that.
Can I run Windows?
Yes. Pick Windows Server 2022 or 2025 Standard as the operating system and the licence is included in the monthly price. Every size we sell has at least 4 GB of RAM, so there is no configuration here where Windows will not boot.
What about backups?
Backups are an option, not an assumption — you choose the retention at checkout and you can change it later. If you choose none, you are your own backup. We would rather say that plainly than let you find out during a restore.
How fast is provisioning?
Typically 24 to 72 hours for stock configurations and up to 7 working days for built-to-order EPYC machines. We will give you a firm date once the order is in.
What is actually included in "managed"?
Initial build to your spec, OS hardening, firewall, security patching on an agreed schedule, uptime and resource monitoring, backup configuration and restore testing, and incident response when something breaks. Your application code is not included — we will help you debug it, but building your app is a separate engagement.
Is support 24/7?
Monitoring and automated response are 24/7. Human engineers work Monday to Saturday, 05:00–14:00 UTC, with out-of-hours callout for anything that is actually down. We are not going to claim a 24/7 staffed desk we do not run.
Is this a real physical machine?
Yes. No hypervisor, no neighbours, no shared cores. You get IPMI access to the hardware, and the core count on the invoice is the core count in the socket — which matters if you are licensing software per physical core.
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