BARE METAL.
ZERO OVERHEAD.
Real HPE ProLiant hardware with full root access and no hypervisor in the way. Every core, every NVMe IOP and every byte of RAM is yours — racked, imaged and operated 24/7 from our privately-owned Cambridge Tier III data centre.
Hypervisor
Zero overhead
DDoS protection
600 Gbps included
0%
Hypervisor overhead
99.99%
Uptime SLA
600 Gbps
Always-on DDoS
24/7
UK NOC support
Popular bare metal configurations
Reference shapes for the most common workloads — every build is sized to your requirements, and bespoke configurations are available on request.
Bare Metal — Single CPU
1U HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen11
From £199/mo
- Intel Xeon Silver 4416+ (20C / 40T, 3.9 GHz boost)
- 128 GB DDR5 ECC (up to 1 TB)
- 2 × 3.84 TB NVMe Gen 4 (HW RAID 1)
- 1 Gbps unmetered (10 Gbps optional)
- Full root + dedicated iLO
- 600 Gbps DDoS included
Bare Metal — Dual CPU
Most popular — 2U HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen11
From £499/mo
- 2 × Intel Xeon Gold 6430 (64C / 128T)
- 256 GB DDR5 ECC (up to 4 TB)
- 4 × 7.68 TB NVMe Gen 4 (HW RAID 10)
- 10 Gbps unmetered (25 Gbps optional)
- Full root + dedicated iLO
- 600 Gbps DDoS included
Bare Metal — High Memory
2U dual-socket, memory-optimised
Built to order
- 2 × Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ (112C / 224T)
- 1 TB – 4 TB DDR5 ECC
- 8 × 7.68 TB NVMe + 2 × 960 GB OS
- 2 × 25 GbE (LACP), 100 GbE optional
- Full root + dedicated iLO
- 600 Gbps DDoS included
Prices shown ex-VAT. Need GPUs, large RAID arrays or 25/100 GbE? Build a custom server.
Why bare metal, and why ours
Tier-1 hardware, a resilient UK network and a NOC that actually answers — single-tenant, every time.
No Hypervisor Tax
Direct hardware access — no KVM, no VMware, no noisy neighbour. Every CPU cycle, every NVMe IOP and every byte of RAM is yours.
Full Root & iLO
Root or Administrator on the OS, plus dedicated HPE iLO out-of-band management — console, power, virtual media and KVM, without us in the way.
Latest Intel & AMD
Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire / Emerald Rapids) and AMD EPYC Genoa platforms. Single-socket high-clock through dual-socket Platinum 8480+.
DDR5 ECC, Lots of It
32 GB to 4 TB of DDR5 ECC memory. ECC is standard on every build — silent bit-flips do not corrupt your data on our metal.
NVMe Gen 4 Storage
Enterprise NVMe with hardware RAID or software RAID/ZFS. Big spinning RAID arrays and NVMe + HDD hybrid pools also available.
1 / 10 / 25 / 100 GbE
1 Gbps as standard, 10 / 25 / 100 GbE on request. Unmetered or 95th-percentile bandwidth — no surprise per-GB egress.
600 Gbps DDoS Included
Always-on, in-line Corero SmartWall mitigation on every dedicated server. No add-on fees, no opt-in, sub-second response.
24/7 UK NOC
Real engineers on a UK phone number, around the clock — included remote hands, console access, reboots and reimages on every plan.
Built for workloads that hate hypervisors
Where every microsecond and every IOP counts — bare metal earns its keep.
Databases at full tilt
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse and Redis primaries that need every microsecond of NVMe latency — no hypervisor in the path.
Latency-sensitive workloads
Trading engines, real-time analytics, ad-tech bidders and SIP/RTP voice platforms that cannot tolerate the jitter of shared hosts.
Kubernetes & container hosts
Run your own Kubernetes, OpenShift or Talos cluster directly on the metal — full CNI/CSI control and proper resource isolation per node.
Compliance & data sovereignty
UK-only single-tenant hardware for finance, healthcare, legal and public-sector workloads — ISO-aligned ops and chain-of-custody on the metal.
Bring any OS
Pre-imaged or mount your own ISO via iLO virtual media — bare metal means bare metal.
Ubuntu LTS
AlmaLinux / Rocky
Windows Server
Debian
FreeBSD
Talos / RHEL
How to get started
01
Spec your metal
Tell us the workload — database, container host, low-latency app, custom Linux — and we'll recommend the right CPU, memory, NVMe and network for it.
02
We rack & image
Built in Cambridge, hardened, firewalled and DDoS-protected, then booted into your OS of choice. iLO credentials and root handed over.
03
Run it your way
Full root access on a fixed monthly price. UK NOC on a real phone number, included remote hands and 600 Gbps DDoS in the background.
Related dedicated server ranges
Bare metal server questions
Root access, iLO, networking, DDoS and deployment times — the questions our UK NOC answer most often about single-tenant HPE ProLiant bare metal.
- No hypervisor — direct HPE ProLiant hardware access
- Full root + dedicated iLO out-of-band management
- 600 Gbps Corero DDoS included on every server
Need a custom build?
Tell us your workload — CPU, memory, NVMe and network — and our Cambridge team will spec the right bare metal configuration.
8 common questions