Bare metal, billed by the hour.
Single-tenant Xeon Gold and EPYC Genoa servers with up to 100 Gbps uplinks, IPMI and a custom-OS-friendly bootloader. Provision in 11 minutes, cancel any hour.
- No credit card to start
- Free migrations
- Cancel any time
EPYC Genoa, Xeon Sapphire Rapids, today.
No second-hand fleet, no last-gen chassis. Every cabinet we deploy ships with the latest CPU generation and DDR5 ECC memory — and we publish the SKU we are running.
- AMD EPYC Genoa 9354 / 9554 / 9684X options
- Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids 6438Y / 6448H
- Up to 1 TB DDR5 ECC RDIMM and 8 × 7.68 TB Gen4 NVMe
Big pipes, no fine print.
Pick 25, 40 or 100 Gbps and we will rate-limit at the wire, not the contract. Premium tiers can BGP-announce their own ASN and run cross-connects to any colo we sit in.
- Up to 100 Gbps non-oversubscribed per server
- BYO ASN with full BGP feed available on Premium
- Free private 10 GbE VLAN between any servers in a region
Out-of-band on every box, included.
No more begging support to KVM into a box. Real IPMI, real serial-over-LAN, a real remote-KVM HTML5 console — locked behind your IAM, not a shared password.
- IPMI 2.0 with HTML5 console, accessible behind your VPN
- PXE boot, mount custom ISOs, edit BIOS over the wire
- Webhooks for hardware events — fan, temp, disk SMART
[BMC] power: on fan1: 3120 RPM [BMC] cpu0: 41 °C fan2: 3098 RPM [BMC] cpu1: 39 °C fan3: 3105 RPM [BMC] dimm A0..H1: ok psu1: 142W [BMC] nvme0..3: SMART pass psu2: 138W [BMC] last boot: 17 days, 4h, 22m [BMC] ▸ press F1 for BIOS F2 for boot menu
Configure once, scale by the rack.
Every plan can be customised — extra NVMe, more RAM, dedicated GPU, BGP. Talk to us if your workload does not fit a column.
Single-tenant compute for steady production loads.
- Xeon Gold 6438Y · 32 cores / 64 threads
- 128 GB DDR5 ECC
- 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe (RAID 1)
- 25 Gbps uplink, 50 TB transfer
- Out-of-band IPMI + remote KVM
- BYO ISO or our 20-image library
Bigger pipes, bigger memory, bigger budgets.
- AMD EPYC Genoa 9354 · 32 cores / 64 threads, 3.25 GHz
- 256 GB DDR5 ECC RDIMM
- 4 × 3.84 TB NVMe Gen4 (RAID 10)
- 40 Gbps dual-port uplink, unmetered
- Free DDoS shield + private 10G VLAN
- Hardware replacement SLA · 1 hour
Database servers, ML inference, prop trading desks.
- Dual EPYC Genoa 9554 · 128 cores / 256 threads
- 1 TB DDR5 ECC
- 8 × 7.68 TB NVMe (RAID 10) · 60 GB/s read
- 100 Gbps uplink, unmetered, BGP available
- Optional MIG-able H100 PCIe
- Dedicated bare-metal engineer
Hourly pricing available on every plan: Starter $0.18/hr · Performance $0.46/hr · Premium $1.18/hr.
When a VM is not enough.
Database team
Postgres 16 with a 3 TB working set
Pinned to a Performance Metal box, 3.4 GB/s sequential reads off RAID-10 NVMe, P99 query under 7ms — at one third the cost of equivalent RDS.
Streaming platform
Ingests 4K live video at 14 Gbps
100 Gbps uplink with hardware offload handles ingestion and packaging on a single box. Saves the team from running a custom Kubernetes cluster.
ML inference team
Self-hosts a 70B chat model
Premium Metal + dual H100 PCIe runs the model at 90 t/s with 8-way KV-cache batching — completely off public clouds, fully under SOC 2 control.
Bare metal economics, side by side.
| Capability | HostEngine | Hyperscaler A | Legacy Host B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision time | 11 min median | 30 – 60 min | 1 – 2 days |
| Hourly billing | |||
| Bring your own ISO / kernel | |||
| 100 Gbps uplink option | +contract | ||
| IPMI / remote KVM | |||
| Hardware replacement SLA | 1 hour | Best effort | 4 – 8 hours |
| DDoS shield included |
Boots whatever you want to boot.
Integrates with the stack you already use
- Debian 12
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Rocky 9
- AlmaLinux
- Windows Server 2022
- VMware ESXi
- Proxmox VE
- Harvester
- Talos
- FreeBSD 14
- iPXE
- Custom ISO
Bare-metal questions, real answers.
How is bare-metal hourly billing possible?
Can I run a custom kernel or hypervisor?
What about disaster recovery?
Do you offer GPU bare metal?
Is the network shared?
Can I get a private interconnect to a colo?
Trusted by 180,000+ teams in 140 countries
Get a single-tenant box online by lunchtime.
Pick a SKU, pick a region, watch the IPMI link come up in 11 minutes. First 24 hours on us — pay nothing if it does not boot.
- No credit card to start
- Free migration from any provider
- 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s $ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1" ✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q (172.247.18.42) ✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached ✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days $ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl ✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s