Bare Metal Dedicated Servers

Dedicated servers. Bare metal. You’ve probably heard both terms — sometimes interchangeably — and often without context.

What are they? What’s the same? What’s different?

Here’s what you need to know.

What’s the Difference?

Dedicated server hosting isn’t new — these managed servers have been around for years but were targeted at power users due to setup and deployment complexity. The concept is simple: Companies get complete access to a standalone server designed to their specifications.

Bare metal cloud servers, meanwhile, are fully customizable physical servers in the cloud. It is like a Dedicated Server, but tied into a cloud environment to give you the flexibility you need without managing multiple environments. Often, businesses combine multiple bare metal servers to create their own private cloud environment.

Features and Benefits

The biggest benefit of dedicated server hosting and bare metal server hosting is that companies get complete access to server hardware without having it on-site. Thus, it’s easier for IT administrators to strengthen their focus on line-of-business initiatives and technology innovation. It makes it possible for businesses to leverage the power of cloud services without the potential issue of VM-related resource drain or resource contention, such as the "noisy neighbor" problem.

Finding the Best Fit

What’s the best fit for your business? Dedicated servers or bare metal servers?

Companies looking to reduce server complexity and management needs were well-served by dedicated options as long as they were prepared for potentially rocky startups.

Bare metal, meanwhile, came with the promise of low latency and high performance to handle big data applications or high-volume transactions, but required IT teams to set up and configure server environments.

At Steadfast, we offer the best of both worlds: Bare metal cloud servers that combine the flexibility of bare metal clouds with the simplicity of dedicated server management because all of our systems are backed by the entire Steadfast team. All Steadfast servers come with The Steadfast Advantage to make sure you have the support you need in engineering, setting up, and maintaining your environment.

The Steadfast Advantage

With Steadfast, you’re supported by the best and most comprehensive managed services from day one. All private cloud and dedicated server packages feature a premium layer of all-inclusive managed services — a benefit that we call the “Steadfast Advantage.”

What’s Included?

24/7 Phone and Email Support

Our facilities are staffed by skilled system administrators and data center operations technicians 24/7 and available via email and telephone, always.

99.99 Percent Availability SLA

Steadfast guarantees 99.99 percent service availability* with an industry-leading SLA that ensures your business services are fully supported and protected.

*May exclude emergency and scheduled maintenance windows

30 Minute (or Less) Support Response SLA

While our SLA guarantees that every support request will receive an initial response from our system administration team within 30 minutes of submission, we typically are able to respond within 15 minutes or less.

Migration Services

Steadfast’s Implementation and System Administration team will engineer a custom migration solution for a smooth migration to your new Steadfast environment.

OS Patching

Steadfast will update the server’s operating system on a pre-determined recurring schedule, or as requested.

Trusted Adviser/Engineering

Our highly skilled Steadfast Implementation Team will fully analyze your needs and design an environment that provides the best possible experience.

Advanced System and Networking Monitoring

Your devices will be enrolled into our monitoring system for continuous monitoring of service status, performance and capacity. Upon detection of any issue, alerts are immediately sent to the Steadfast System Administration team.

Proactive Response and Resolution of Monitoring

The Steadfast System Administration team will proactively respond to and resolve any alerts received from our monitoring system.

Dedicated Server Pricing

We’ve made the building and deployment of dedicated servers simple. Our solutions deliver dependable and affordable options to build bare metal cloud environments or deploy individual servers — all managed through Steadfast's premium support team.

CHOOSE an option to request dedicated server pricing with added resources or to request a discussion about building you a custom configuration that will meet your exact needs.

Time to leverage the simplicity of bare metal server hosting and the support of dedicated server management? Let’s talk — fill out our contact form, send us an email or call 312-602-2689. Ready to jump right into managed colocation pricing? Get a quick estimate today.