X-ZoneServers vs NovoServe
X-ZoneServers vs NovoServe — which is right for you?
NovoServe sells Dutch, Danish and US bare metal from €59/month with 25 TB of egress included, on its own AS24875 and AS939 network. X-ZoneServers sells guaranteed unmetered ports from 1 to 200 Gbps across 12 metros, with a VPS line underneath. The two answer different questions.
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In sintesi
Choose NovoServe when you want a cheap, well-connected bare-metal server and your traffic fits comfortably inside 25 TB of egress a month, or when you need GPU, AI or HPC configurations. Choose X-ZoneServers when the port is the product — a guaranteed 1 Gbps unmetered line moves roughly 324 TB a month with no counter to watch — or when you want a VPS ladder with hourly billing beneath the bare metal.
Key facts at a glance
Short, checkable statements about both providers. Each one traces to a source listed at the bottom of this page.
- 1NovoServe lists bare metal from €59/month with 25 TB of egress included by default and free ingress, plus '1Gbps unmetered bandwidth starting at €60' as a separate line. X-ZoneServers dedicated servers start at €209/month with a guaranteed 1 Gbps unmetered port included.
- 2A guaranteed 1 Gbps port at full use moves roughly 324 TB per month, about thirteen times NovoServe's 25 TB included allowance — which only matters if your workload actually pushes that volume.
- 3NovoServe lists five datacenters in three countries: the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam), Denmark (Copenhagen) and the United States (New York). X-ZoneServers lists 12 metros across 11 countries.
- 4NovoServe publishes bare metal only — no VPS product is listed. X-ZoneServers sells KVM VPS from €4.00/month billed hourly, and a 10 Gbps unmetered VPS from €9.99/month.
- 5NovoServe runs AS24875 and AS939 with a published 18+ Tb/s of capacity, 10+ Tier-1 transit providers and 800+ peering partners. X-ZoneServers routes over blended multi-carrier transit with IX peering and does not publish an ASN of its own.
Confronto fianco a fianco
Specifications and policies exactly as each provider publishes them, on the check dates listed under Sources.
| Specifica | X-ZoneServers | NovoServe |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price (published) | KVM VPS from €4.00/mo (2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40 GB SSD); 10 Gbps unmetered VPS from €9.99/mo; dedicated servers from €209/mo. EUR, excluding VAT. | Bare metal from €59/month with 25 TB of egress included and free ingress; '1Gbps unmetered bandwidth starting at €60' is listed separately. As listed 2026-08-28; per-configuration pricing is in their webshop. |
| Bandwidth model | 1 Gbps unmetered on every KVM VPS; 10 Gbps unmetered on the 10Gbps and streaming VPS lines; dedicated servers ship a guaranteed 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100 or 200 Gbps port with no overage charge inside the tier. | Port speeds from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps. The default model is 25 TB of included egress with free ingress, and unmetered bandwidth is listed as a separately priced option. |
| Product lines | KVM VPS (hourly or monthly), 10 Gbps unmetered VPS, streaming VPS, dedicated servers, game hosting. | Bare metal only — dedicated servers on AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, plus GPU and AI, HPC, storage, unmetered and high-bandwidth lines. No VPS product is listed. |
| Datacenter locations | 12 metros in 11 countries — Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Marseille, Madrid, Milano, Vienna, Warsaw, Sofia, Bucharest, Istanbul and Ashburn (US), in Equinix, Interxion, Voxility, Telepoint and Irideos facilities. | Five datacenters in three countries — the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Rotterdam), Denmark (Copenhagen) and the United States (New York) — described as Tier III and ISO-certified. |
| Typical deployment time | VPS in about 60 seconds; dedicated servers typically within 1 hour when the configuration is in stock. | No provisioning-time commitment appeared on the pages we checked. |
| Hourly billing on VPS | Yes — every KVM VPS bills from €0.0056/hour and is automatically capped at the monthly price. | No hourly billing is listed; bare metal is billed monthly. |
| DDoS protection | Layer 3, 4 and 7 mitigation included on every plan at no extra cost. | An in-house DDoS mitigation platform is included and managed 24/7, per their site. |
| Support model | Operator-led 24/7 support by ticket and email, answered by the engineers who run the platform — no first-line outsourcing. | 24/7/365 with direct access to their senior network and system engineers. |
| Cancellation / commitment | Hourly VPS billing means you can destroy an instance at any time and stop paying. Dedicated servers are billed monthly. | No refund or money-back window appeared on the pages we checked. |
| Network and ASN | Blended multi-carrier transit with internet-exchange peering at each facility. We route over partner networks rather than publishing an ASN of our own. | AS24875 and AS939 — a self-operated network published at 18+ Tb/s with 10+ Tier-1 transit providers and 800+ peering partners. |
| Operating since | 2023 (X ZONE IT SRL, Bucharest, Romania) | 2014 (NovoServe B.V., Netherlands) |
| Specialty | Unmetered and guaranteed-bandwidth hosting for streaming, game servers and data-heavy workloads across the EU and US. | Dutch, Danish and US bare metal with large included egress, plus GPU, AI and HPC configurations, on a self-operated network. |
Every figure in this table is taken from the provider's own public pages on the check dates listed under Sources. Hosting prices and specifications change often — confirm at the source before you buy.
Where NovoServe is the stronger fit
A far cheaper way onto bare metal
NovoServe lists dedicated servers from €59/month with 25 TB of egress included and free ingress. Our bare metal starts at €209/month because the guaranteed unmetered port is part of the product. If your traffic fits inside 25 TB a month — and for a great many workloads it does — NovoServe gets you onto single-tenant hardware for a quarter of the price, and you should take that seriously.
Its own network and Tier III ISO-certified facilities
NovoServe operates AS24875 and AS939 and publishes 18+ Tb/s of capacity, 10+ Tier-1 transit providers and 800+ peering partners, out of Tier III ISO-certified datacenters in the Netherlands, Denmark and the US. If your procurement checks who owns the network and what the facility is certified to, they answer both directly.
GPU, AI and HPC configurations we do not sell
Their catalogue includes GPU and AI servers and HPC configurations alongside standard bare metal. We sell CPU-only hardware — our own use-case pages say so plainly — so if you need accelerators for training or inference, we are not a candidate and they are.
Where X-ZoneServers is the stronger fit
Everything below bare metal
NovoServe's entry point is a €59/month physical server. Ours is a €4.00/month KVM VPS with a 1 Gbps unmetered port, billed from €0.0056/hour and online in about 60 seconds, with a 10 Gbps unmetered VPS at €9.99/month above it. For prototypes, CI runners, staging, bots and small always-on services, a whole machine is more than the job needs.
Twelve metros in eleven countries
NovoServe lists five datacenters in three countries: the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States. We deploy in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Marseille, Madrid, Milano, Vienna, Warsaw, Sofia, Bucharest, Istanbul and Ashburn. For users in Iberia, Italy, the Balkans, Poland or Turkey, the shortest path starts considerably closer.
Unmetered by default, with a published tier ladder to 200 Gbps
Our dedicated servers are sold by guaranteed port — 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100 or 200 Gbps — with no traffic counter, no overage inside the tier, and the monthly price of every chassis at every tier printed on the site. NovoServe's default is 25 TB of included egress with unmetered listed separately and ports topping out at 100 Gbps.
Pricing scenarios
Comparable workloads at published list prices. Currency, VAT treatment, setup fees and promotional terms differ per provider — the disclosure below the table explains how to read them.
Entry bare metal
X-ZoneServers
Dual Xeon E5-2630v3 — 16c/32t, 128 GB DDR4, 6 SSD bays, 1 Gbps guaranteed unmetered — €209/mo, which is roughly 324 TB per month at full port use.
NovoServe
Bare metal from €59/month with 25 TB of egress included and free ingress (2026-08-28). Configuration determines the final price in their webshop.
A 1 Gbps unmetered port
X-ZoneServers
Included in the €209/mo entry configuration — the guaranteed port is the product, with no traffic counter and no overage inside the tier.
NovoServe
Listed on their site as '1Gbps unmetered bandwidth starting at €60' as a separate line item alongside the server.
A small always-on workload
X-ZoneServers
KVM VPS from €4.00/mo (2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40 GB SSD, 1 Gbps unmetered), billed from €0.0056/hour. 10 Gbps unmetered VPS from €9.99/mo.
NovoServe
No VPS product is listed — the entry point is a €59/month bare-metal server.
Punto di vista onesto: The two catalogues answer different questions rather than competing head-on. NovoServe's €59 entry with 25 TB of included egress is a cheaper door into single-tenant hardware than our €209, and if your traffic fits inside that allowance it is the better buy. Our €209 buys a guaranteed 1 Gbps unmetered port instead — around 324 TB a month at full use, with nothing to monitor — plus a VPS line beneath it and eleven European metros they do not serve.
Which one should you pick?
Pick X-ZoneServers if
- The port is the product: you saturate bandwidth and do not want to think about an egress allowance.
- You want to start on a VPS billed by the hour rather than a whole machine.
- Your users are in Iberia, Italy, the Balkans, Poland or Turkey.
- You want a guaranteed 25, 50, 100 or 200 Gbps port with a published price.
Pick NovoServe if
- You want single-tenant hardware cheaply and 25 TB of egress a month is plenty.
- You need GPU, AI or HPC configurations.
- Dutch or Danish Tier III ISO-certified facilities are a requirement.
- You want a provider that owns and publishes its own network.
Domande frequenti
Is NovoServe cheaper than X-ZoneServers?
For entry bare metal, yes — NovoServe lists dedicated servers from €59/month with 25 TB of egress included, against €209/month for our entry configuration. The difference is what the price includes: our €209 buys a guaranteed 1 Gbps unmetered port, which moves roughly 324 TB a month at full use. If your traffic fits inside 25 TB, NovoServe is the better value; if it does not, compare after adding their unmetered option.
Does NovoServe offer VPS hosting?
No VPS product is listed on their site — NovoServe publishes bare metal only, including AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon, GPU and AI, HPC, storage and unmetered lines. X-ZoneServers sells KVM VPS from €4.00/month billed hourly from €0.0056/hour, plus a 10 Gbps unmetered VPS from €9.99/month, alongside dedicated servers.
How many locations does each provider have?
NovoServe lists five datacenters in three countries: the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Rotterdam), Denmark (Copenhagen) and the United States (New York). X-ZoneServers deploys in 12 metros across 11 countries — Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Marseille, Madrid, Milano, Vienna, Warsaw, Sofia, Bucharest, Istanbul and Ashburn.
Which is better for GPU or AI workloads?
NovoServe, without qualification. They list GPU and AI servers and HPC configurations; X-ZoneServers sells CPU-only hardware, which suits small or quantised models, RAG backends and vector databases but not GPU training or large-model inference. If you need accelerators, they are the right call.
Sources and check dates
Every statement about another provider on this page traces to one of these public pages. Where a provider does not publish a figure, this page says so instead of estimating.
- NovoServe — network, locations, DDoS, supporthttps://novoserve.com/· checked 2026-08-28
- NovoServe dedicated and bare metal servershttps://novoserve.com/dedicated-servers· checked 2026-08-28
- AS24875 on bgp.he.nethttps://bgp.he.net/AS24875· checked 2026-08-28
- X-ZoneServers dedicated server price matrixhttps://x-zoneservers.com/dedicated· checked 2026-08-28
Disclosure, method and limits
We are one of the providers compared
This page is published by X-ZoneServers (X ZONE IT SRL, Bucharest, Romania). We sell one of the two services compared, so this is a vendor comparison rather than an independent review. Our method is to quote each provider's own published figures, name the date we read them, and state plainly where the other provider is the better choice.
How the numbers are gathered
Competitor data is read directly from that provider's public website — pricing pages, specification sheets, network and location pages — on the dates listed under Sources, plus public network registries such as PeeringDB and bgp.he.net for ASN details. We do not benchmark competitor hardware ourselves and we do not republish figures from review sites or affiliate directories.
How to read the prices
List prices only. Promotional offers, first-term discounts, renewal rates, setup fees, add-ons, region surcharges and currency all differ per provider and can change without notice. X-ZoneServers prices are in EUR excluding VAT. Where another provider publishes in a different currency or inclusive of VAT, that is marked in the table — those figures are not directly comparable to ours without adjustment.
Accuracy and corrections
The goal is that every claim here can be verified at the source in under a minute. Nothing on this page is a benchmark result, a prediction, or a statement about a competitor's internal operations. If a figure has drifted or is wrong — including where the error favours us — write to us and we will correct it and move the review date.
Trademarks and affiliation
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Provi X-ZoneServers senza impegno
Every KVM VPS is billed by the hour and capped at the monthly price. Deploy one, test it for an evening, and pay only for the hours you used.