phoenixNAP

phoenixNAP is an infrastructure-as-a-service provider founded in 2009, with roots in Arizona. Its best-known product is Bare Metal Cloud, a platform of single-tenant physical servers that you provision through a web portal, an API, a CLI, or Terraform, and pay for by the hour. Instance families include small Intel Xeon E3 machines starting around $0.08 per hour, Intel Core i9 and AMD EPYC servers, dual-socket Xeon Gold and Platinum systems with up to 1 TB of RAM, and Ampere Arm servers. Hourly billing can be switched to reserved terms, and bandwidth allowances such as 15 TB are included. Beyond bare metal, the company sells traditional dedicated servers, colocation, Hardware as a Service, GPU servers, object storage, network file storage, and backup and restore services. DDoS protection and 24/7 support by phone, ticket, and chat are included. Data centers include Phoenix, Ashburn, Chicago, Seattle, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Singapore. The platform integrates with Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi, and can deploy servers with SUSE Rancher pre-installed to build Kubernetes clusters. It suits developers, SaaS companies, and enterprise IT teams that want the control of physical hardware with cloud-style automation. Its main limitation is that servers are unmanaged and cost more than budget dedicated hosts such as Hetzner or OVHcloud. It also offers no shared hosting or managed WordPress for small websites, and public user reviews are scarce.