What is a dedicated server?
A dedicated server is a physical machine in a data center that is rented to a single customer. Unlike shared hosting or a cloud instance, nothing is virtualized between you and the hardware unless you choose to virtualize it yourself. This is also called bare metal server hosting.
Because the hardware is not shared, performance is consistent and you decide exactly how it is used: one large database, a virtualization host running many of your own virtual machines, or a private AI model serving your whole company.
- Large or write-heavy databases
- High-traffic websites and platforms
- Virtualization and private cloud hosts
- Private AI and language models
- Backup and storage servers
- Workloads with strict isolation needs