phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud

phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud rents single-tenant physical servers with no hypervisor, and you provision them like cloud instances. phoenixNAP says servers deploy in about 60 seconds. The catalog has more than 50 preset instance types in general purpose, compute, memory, database (including a Pliops XDP option), ARM (Ampere Altra), and AI/ML or GPU families. Newer families run Intel Xeon 6 and 5th Gen Xeon processors. Servers can be deployed in Phoenix, Ashburn, Chicago, Seattle, Amsterdam, and Singapore. Billing is pay-as-you-go by the hour, and monthly or longer reservations cut costs by up to 30 percent. Listed starting prices run from $0.08 per hour (about $38.81 a month) for the smallest general purpose server to roughly $950 a month for AI/ML instances. Prices exclude taxes. A first deployment includes 15 TB of bandwidth, or 5 TB in Singapore, which servers in the same location can share. Automation is the main selling point. You can manage servers through a REST API, the pnapctl CLI, SDKs, and Infrastructure-as-Code modules for Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, Chef, and Puppet. SUSE Rancher is available for one-click Kubernetes clusters. VAST network file storage and S3-compatible object storage can be added. Megaport Cloud Router provides private links to public clouds. The service suits development teams, SaaS companies, and enterprises running steady, performance-sensitive workloads that would cost more on public cloud VMs. Its main limitation is that servers are unmanaged by default, so you handle patching and administration yourself. It also lacks the managed databases and serverless tools that hyperscalers provide.