Servers

Dedicated servers.

A whole physical machine, specified for your workload and shared with nobody.

When virtual is not the answer

For most workloads a VPS is better value, and we will say so. But there are cases where a dedicated machine is genuinely the right call: when performance must be consistent to the millisecond, when software licensing is tied to physical cores or sockets, or when a policy or contract requires that your data does not sit on hardware shared with anyone else.

In those cases virtualisation is not a cost saving, it is a compliance problem or a performance risk.

What you get

Single tenant

The entire machine is yours. No other customers, no noisy neighbours, no hypervisor overhead between your workload and the hardware.

Specified for you

CPU, memory, storage type and capacity chosen for what you actually run, rather than picked from three fixed tiers.

Full root access

Complete control of the operating system, with your choice of Linux distribution or Windows Server.

Predictable performance

Consistent I/O and CPU, which matters for large databases and applications sensitive to latency variation.

Licensing friendly

Suits software licensed per physical core or socket, where virtualisation complicates or invalidates the terms.

Managed if you want

Take it unmanaged and run it yourself, or add management and let our engineers handle the operating system layer.

We will tell you if you do not need one

Dedicated hardware is frequently bought for the wrong reason.

Review my workload

A good number of enquiries for dedicated servers turn out to be performance problems that a dedicated machine would not fix — an unindexed database query, an uncached page build, or an application making a slow external call on every request.

Moving that onto faster hardware makes it marginally less slow and considerably more expensive. We would rather look at the actual workload first and tell you where the time is really going.

Workload review before recommending hardware.
Honest verdict — often a tuned VPS is the better buy.
Specification matched to real requirements, not headroom for its own sake.
Migration planned with a rollback position throughout.

Dedicated server questions

How long does provisioning take?

Longer than a VPS, because physical hardware has to be prepared rather than created from a template. We give you a realistic date once the specification is agreed, and we do not promise same-day on bespoke builds.

Can I choose the exact specification?

Within what is sensible and supportable, yes. Tell us the workload — database size, concurrency, storage growth — and we will propose a specification and explain the reasoning behind each choice.

Do you provide management?

Optionally. Unmanaged means you own everything above the hardware. Managed adds OS patching, monitoring, hardening and backup verification from our engineers.

What about hardware failure?

Physical hardware does fail. What matters is the replacement and restore procedure, and whether your backups are current and tested. That is agreed in advance rather than improvised during an incident.

Considering a dedicated server?

Send us the workload details. We'll tell you whether you need one, and spec it if you do.

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