Between them, the 17 best-ranked of these 28 web hosting companies cover cloud storage (9), IaaS (9), dedicated servers (8) and domain registration (6). They also list work in Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America. 17 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.
What to look for in bare metal server providers
The right provider depends on your workload, where your users are and what your team can run, not only on its place in this list. Before you shortlist, check:
How fast a server is provisioned, and whether an API can do it
Hourly or monthly billing, and reserved-capacity discounts
GPU and high-memory configurations if your workload needs them
Private networking to the provider’s cloud services
Locations and the stock actually available in each
How to use this ranking
Use it to build a shortlist. Each profile lists the hosting types a provider sells, the countries it runs servers in and its prices as printed on its own site, with the date we read them. Test the two or three that fit before you move anything that matters.
Managed WordPress hosting · Dedicated servers · Domain registration · Also in Ghana and Africa
Aveshost sells shared, WordPress, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal hosting and domains, with country-specific VPS offers for customers in Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya.
Managed WordPress hosting · Dedicated servers · Domain registration · Also in Asia
EzerHost sells shared, WordPress, reseller, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal hosting, colocation and domains, priced in Indian rupees for customers in India.
Dedicated servers · Domain registration · Shared hosting · Also in North America
InterServer sells shared and reseller hosting, slice-based VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers, colocation and domains from its own United States facilities.
Cloud storage · Dedicated servers · Domain registration · Also in Oceania and North America
OVHcloud sells VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers, public cloud instances and domain names to developers, game hosts and businesses from data centres on four continents.
Cloud storage · Dedicated servers · IaaS · Also in Europe
Scaleway SAS sells virtual instances, Elastic Metal bare-metal servers and Dedibox dedicated servers, billed by the hour or the month, from European data centres.
Cloud storage · IaaS · CDN · Also in Middle East and Africa
Vultr sells self-service virtual machines, single-tenant bare metal servers and a CDN, deployable through a console, API or Terraform, to developers and businesses.
Cloud storage · IaaS · Also in Oceania and North America
IBM Cloud sells virtual servers and bare-metal servers across data centres in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, with US federal-oriented infrastructure.
The order is earned: ratings, verified reviews and listing quality decide it, and nobody can pay to move up. There are two ways to stand out, and each one says what it is.
How is this ranking of bare metal server providers worked out?
A position here is earned, never bought. It is worked out from what each listing documents and what has been verified about it: a complete, accurate profile, and the checks a provider has passed. Client reviews count where they exist, but they are still rare across this catalogue, so today the order comes mainly from documentation and verification. A top position means best-documented, not best for your workload.
Can a provider pay to move up?
No. Sponsored and Featured places are labelled and shown apart from the ranked list, and they never change a provider’s position in it. How rankings work
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