Published: 3 October 2026
Our cheapest dedicated server costs €209 a month. For that you get two Intel Xeon E5 2630 v3 processors with 16 cores and 32 threads, 128 GB of DDR4 RAM, a 240 GB SSD and a 1 Gbps port that is both unmetered and guaranteed. Nothing on the machine is shared with another customer. This post is about what that box is actually good for, what a 1 Gbps unmetered port really moves, and when it is worth paying €50 more for 2 Gbps.
The entry server at a glance
| Processors | 2 × Intel Xeon E5 2630 v3, 16 cores, 32 threads |
|---|---|
| Memory | 128 GB DDR4 |
| Storage | 1 × 240 GB SSD, six drive bays |
| Network | 1 Gbps port, unmetered, guaranteed |
| IPv4 | One usable address, larger subnets optional |
| Price | €209 a month, no setup fee |
| Delivery | Typically within about an hour |
| Countries | Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and the United States |
| Operating systems | 30 images, including Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, FreeBSD, Proxmox VE and Windows Server 2022 and 2025 |
The price is the chassis at €159 plus the 1 Gbps port at €50. The order form adds the two together, which is why the bandwidth option looks like an extra even though every server needs one.
What "unmetered 1 Gbps" actually moves
A 1 Gbps port moves 125 MB per second. Over a 30 day month that is a ceiling of 324 TB, and nobody counts how much of it you use. In practice the port is rarely the limit for the jobs this server is bought for. Here is what the numbers look like in everyday terms:
| Task | At 1 Gbps | At 2 Gbps |
|---|---|---|
| Copy 1 TB off the server | 2 hours 13 minutes | 1 hour 7 minutes |
| Restore a 10 TB backup | 22.2 hours | 11.1 hours |
| Simultaneous 1080p streams at 5 Mbps | 200 | 400 |
| Monthly ceiling at full use | 324 TB | 648 TB |
"Guaranteed" is the word that separates this from most budget dedicated offers. Some budget offers advertise a 1 Gbps port that is shared with other machines on the same switch, so what you get at 9 pm depends on your neighbours. Ours is committed to your server around the clock.
1 Gbps or 2 Gbps?
The 2 Gbps tier costs €259 a month on the same server. Pay the extra €50 if one of these is true:
- Your traffic graphs already touch 700 to 800 Mbps at the busiest hour. A port that runs full at peak adds queueing delay for every visitor, long before it shows up as an error.
- Restore time matters. If a full restore of your data has to finish overnight, the table above is the argument: twice the port, half the wait.
- You serve video or large downloads and your audience is growing. Moving from 200 to 400 concurrent HD viewers for €50 is cheaper than adding a second server.
If none of those apply, stay on 1 Gbps. When the graphs say otherwise, open a ticket and we will quote the move to the next tier. If you ever need more than 5 Gbps, our post on whether a 10 Gbps dedicated server is worth it works through the maths per terabyte.
Jobs this server is built for
Hosting many websites at once
With 32 threads and 128 GB of RAM, the server carries dozens of PHP sites with their databases, which makes it a natural first server for agencies and small hosting resellers. On shared hosting or a single VPS, the busiest client slows everybody else. Here the only neighbours are your own.
Your own virtual machines
Proxmox VE 8.4 and 9.1 are on the install list, so the server can become a private host for a dozen or more small virtual machines. With 128 GB of RAM and 32 threads, carving it into machines of 4 to 8 GB each is comfortable. If the guests need public addresses, add a larger IPv4 subnet on the order form, as listed below.
Build, CI and batch work
Compile jobs, test suites and nightly data processing love parallel threads and lots of RAM for caches. Unlike a cloud instance billed by the minute, a busy month costs exactly the same as a quiet one.
Backup and file storage
Fill the six bays with SSDs and the box becomes an offsite backup target or a file server for a team spread across countries, with an unmetered port, so restores are never metered either.
Building it out
Everything below is chosen on the order form and billed monthly with the server:
| Option | Choices | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Drives | 1 × 240 GB SSD | Included |
| Drives | 2 × 500 GB SSD | €5 |
| Drives | 6 × 1 TB SSD | €69 |
| Drives | 6 × 2 TB SSD | €139 |
| Drives | 6 × 4 TB SSD | €279 |
| Drives | 6 × 8 TB SSD | €559 |
| IPv4 | /31 with 1 usable address | Included |
| IPv4 | /29 with 5 usable addresses | €8 |
| IPv4 | /28 with 13 usable addresses | €26 |
| IPv4 | /27 with 29 usable addresses | €58 |
Three real builds and what they cost
| Build | What you pick | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Web and app server | Entry server, 2 × 500 GB SSD, /29 subnet | €222 |
| Streaming origin | Entry server on 2 Gbps, 6 × 1 TB SSD | €328 |
| Backup target | Entry server, 6 × 4 TB SSD | €488 |
The backup build gives you 24 TB of raw SSD before any redundancy you choose to set up yourself, with no charge for the traffic going in or coming back out.
What you do not get
Better to know now than after checkout:
- It is self managed. You get full root or administrator access and you run the operating system, updates, backups and security. Our support covers the hardware and the network, by live chat, ticket and email.
- It is billed monthly, not hourly. You can pay monthly, quarterly or yearly, and the yearly price is simply twelve months. If you need a machine for an afternoon, an hourly VPS is the right tool.
- The drives are SATA SSDs, not NVMe. That is plenty for web hosting, virtual machines and backups. If you need NVMe for heavy database work, the EPYC servers start at €449 a month at 1 Gbps with two 1 TB NVMe drives, delivered within 14 days.
And if the job grows, the step up is small: €20 more buys the dual Xeon E5 2690 v4 with 28 cores, and €90 more buys the dual E5 2699 v4 with 44 cores and 256 GB of RAM.
Order the entry server
- Open the 1 Gbps dedicated server page, or compare all chassis on the dedicated servers page.
- Pick the dual E5 2630 v3, a country, your drives and your subnet.
- Choose an operating system and check out. Most entry servers are online within about an hour.