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Who is VPS and Bare-metal Dedicated Servers?
VPS and Bare-metal Dedicated Servers are infrastructure hosting offerings that deliver isolated compute environments, where virtual private servers run on shared hypervisor hosts and bare-metal dedicated servers provide single-tenant physical hardware under direct customer control.
- Virtual private server hosting with isolated virtualized compute
- Single-tenant bare-metal dedicated server provisioning
- Configurable CPU, memory, storage, and network resources
- Root-level administrative access and custom operating system deployment
- Network connectivity, DDoS mitigation, and optional managed support
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More About VPS and Bare-metal Dedicated Servers
VPS and Bare-metal Dedicated Servers are positioned in enterprise environments as options for workloads that need predictable performance, isolation, and administrative control without the overhead of owning and housing physical infrastructure. Virtual private servers allocate dedicated virtual resources on a shared physical host, typically managed through a hypervisor such as KVM or Xen. Bare-metal dedicated servers assign an entire physical machine to a single customer, removing the hypervisor layer and the resource contention associated with shared hosts.
Architecturally, these offerings are associated with hardware virtualization, out-of-band management through baseboard management controllers that support IPMI or Redfish interfaces, automated provisioning with network boot mechanisms, and software-defined networking for tenant isolation. Common protocols and standards include IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, BGP for upstream route announcement in larger deployments, and storage configurations such as RAID arrays and NVMe drives. Operators typically expose these resources through APIs and control panels that support infrastructure as code workflows.
Relative to hyperscale public cloud platforms, VPS and dedicated server hosting generally offers more predictable pricing, full control over the operating system and kernel on bare-metal systems, and less dependence on proprietary managed services. Compared with colocation, these offerings remove the need for customers to procure and maintain hardware, while still providing a level of control that managed application hosting does not.
The business significance of these offerings lies in their role as a foundation for web applications, databases, development and test environments, game servers, analytics pipelines, and workloads with licensing or compliance requirements that favor single-tenant hardware. Within the directory context, this offering category aligns with shared and VPS hosting and related hosting and edge delivery solution areas, reflecting current product families that span virtualized compute and single-tenant physical servers.
Our description of VPS and Bare-metal Dedicated Servers. Updated October 2026.