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phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud: Your Viable Alternative to Equinix Metal

Pre-configured bare metal. Cloud-like provisioning. Unbeatable pricing.

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While optimizing their workload placement strategy, organizations grapple with the high costs of on-prem data centers, the suboptimal performance of the public cloud, and the uncertain future of popular IaaS providers. phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud helps you avoid these pitfalls and gain agile access to future-proof IT infrastructure that seamlessly adapts to the needs of your workloads.

As a more viable Equinix Metal alternative, Bare Metal Cloud (BMC) combines the advantages of hyperscale cloud and dedicated servers at a competitive price. This platform enables you to provision dedicated servers on demand and with cloud-like simplicity. Deploy cutting-edge hardware globally while ensuring enterprise-grade security and performance—all with just a few clicks.

Cutting-edge, dedicated hardware
No vendor lock-in or service deprecation
Provisioning via API and popular IaC tools
15 TB free bandwidth (5 TB in Singapore)

No “noisy neighbors”
Flexible billing and bandwidth models
Scale-out network and object storage options
Global and edge deployment in minutes

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Bare Metal Cloud allows you to provision bare metal instances and manage them with cloud-like simplicity. By removing the virtualization layer and offering direct access to the underlying server hardware, it provides you with maximum processing potential.

Like Equinix Metal, BMC offers the consistent performance and outstanding security of a dedicated IT infrastructure and provides you with the deployment agility cloud-native organizations demand. At the same time, phoenixNAP’s versatile platform delivers this at a lower price point and lets you access the latest GPU, CPU, and server technologies from industry-leading vendors such as Intel, HPE, Supermicro, and Solidigm.

Enjoy the flexibility and scalability of virtualized environments paired with the control and raw horsepower of dedicated servers. Switch to Bare Metal Cloud to gain more transparency, take advantage of bleeding-edge technologies, and increase the long-term reliability of your preferred IT deployment model.

Bare Metal Cloud supports a variety of data-hungry and compute-intensive workloads, such as:

AI inferencing and machine learning
High-Performance Computing (HPC)
Big data analytics
Application building, testing, and deployment
High-traffic web applications
SQL and NoSQL databases
Production-grade Kubernetes
Edge computing

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Why Choose phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud?

phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud provides your organization with automation-driven dedicated servers fine-tuned to your compute, memory, storage, and networking needs. Choose from 50+ instances powered by cutting-edge compute, network, and storage hardware. Find the ideal configuration for your business-critical workloads and unlock the power of hybrid cloud without the frustrations of building and managing IT at scale.

Bare Metal Cloud offers unparalleled performance at lower costs compared to Equinix Metal or other popular dedicated cloud solutions. Billed on an hourly or monthly basis, it ensures you only pay for the resources you need. Set up anything from sandboxes to DevOps-friendly production environments in minutes for as little as $0.08 per hour.

Future-Ready Hardware

Leverage NVMe storage, DDR4 or 5 RAM, and a low-latency network paired with bleeding-edge Intel CPUs and GPUs for faster compute.

Automated Provisioning

Spin up your dedicated infrastructure in just a few clicks and manage physical servers as code using certified IaC modules.

VPC-Like Networking Capabilities

Use Netris OS to streamline routing, elastic load balancing, firewalls, DHCP, NAT, and other networking features on bare metal.

HA Kubernetes in 5 Minutes

Streamline the deployment of geo-distributed, multi-node K8s clusters at scale with integrated SUSE Rancher software.

Flexible Billing and Bandwidth

Consume burstable resources for a predictable price billed by the hour or month without overspend or performance degradation.

No Vendor Lock-in

Seamlessly integrate this cloud-agnostic solution into your existing hybrid environments. Stay free from proprietary technologies.

GitHub Repos and SDKs

Align your IT with your DevOps or DataOps pipelines. Accelerate workflows via regularly updated repos, actions, and SDKs.

Fast and Secure Network

Use up to 50 Gbps transfer speed on a redundant, DDoS-protected network with customizable public and private networking options.

Access to Cloud-Native Storage

Quickly expand server storage capacity with terabytes of S3-compatible Object Storage or high-performance Network File Storage.

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We pride ourselves on being the preferred choice for our clients.

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Your Trust

We pride ourselves on being the preferred choice for our clients.

“With Bare Metal Cloud, we were able to provision high-performance physical services in minutes across multiple geographic locations via simple calls to the API. We have the freedom to provision server instances that are optimized for compute or memory-intensive workloads. On top of this, everything is open source, and we don’t have to worry about vendor lock-in.”

Matt Russell, Chief Cloud Officer, Namecheap

“Migrating to phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud yielded a 50% monthly cloud cost reduction compared to our previous home-rolled solution in AWS. And our in-house solution was already 40% cheaper than the AWS-managed OpenSearch! We were able to leverage consistent speeds of over 20 Gbps between Bare Metal Cloud and multiple dedicated storage servers simultaneously, allowing us to separate the processing and data storage aspects of our infrastructure to optimize both speed and costs.”

Ryan McLaughlin, Senior DBA, SpyFu

“Costs for similar systems and performance with cloud-based services were night and day. However, with BMC, we found the best of both worlds — fantastic hardware performance at a lower cost. We can upgrade our servers on the go without trying to figure out which services we need to scale and how much that is going to cost us. With BMC, everything is upfront, transparent, and really easy to understand.”

Grant Street, Co-founder/CEO, at My Party Album Inc.

FAQ

Frequently Asked
Questions

How Does phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud (BMC) Compare to Equinix Metal?

Both phoenixNAP and Equinix offer Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS), but Bare Metal Cloud provides greater flexibility and cost savings. For example, BMC’s s2.c2.large instance, which has a faster CPU and higher storage capacity than Equinix Metal’s m3.small.opt-m1, costs just $174.37 per month—almost four times less! Additionally, BMC offers an hourly billing option on all servers, giving you unmatched flexibility. For more price information and detailed server specs, visit our BMC Pricing page.
How fast can I provision a Bare Metal Cloud instance?

Depending on the operating system you choose during the deployment process, you can have your pre-configured Bare Metal Cloud server up and running in anywhere from 60 seconds to 10 minutes. To learn how to quickly create your free account and browse through the available servers and features, watch this short tutorial.
Which operating systems does the platform support?

Your instance can come with pre-installed Ubuntu, CentOS, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, Debian, Windows, Proxmox, or ESXi. You can even install Ubuntu in RAM and use it to install a custom OS or use the platform’s integration with SUSE Rancher to deploy production-ready Kubernetes clusters in 5 minutes. For advanced networking options, Netris software is also available as a pre-configured OS.
How is Bare Metal Cloud billed?

Bare Metal Cloud servers can be consumed on a pay-as-you-go basis and billed by the hour. For additional cost optimization, discounts are available for monthly or yearly reservations. Billing and usage details are fully transparent and easily accessible via the platform’s self-service portal.
What storage options does the platform provide?

Bare Metal Cloud servers come with low-latency NVMe drives. However, the platform lets you near-instantly scale capacity with terabytes of all-flash Network File Storage or S3-compatible object storage.
In which locations are these Bare Metal Cloud instances available?

The platform offers over 50 different servers deployable across the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific. However, some instances may not be available in all these locations. You can see the available locations of all servers by visiting the Bare Metal Cloud portal and creating an account.

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