Dedicated servers

Bare-Metal Dedicated Servers: Full Physical Allocation on Intel Xeon and AMD Ryzen Hardware

AvaHost's dedicated server service provides complete physical machine allocation — no hypervisor layer, no vCPU contention from neighbouring tenants. Operating since 2002, AvaHost provisions bare-metal hardware with root access, dedicated IPv4, and DDoS protection included across all plans.

Dedicated infrastructure is architecturally appropriate when VPS Hosting vCPU caps produce measurable query latency under sustained production loads. Workloads that consistently benefit from bare-metal allocation include large MySQL and PostgreSQL shards, game authoritative servers requiring stable UDP tick rates, video transcoding pipelines, and compliance environments where disk-level encryption must be enforced at the OS and storage controller layer. Because no virtualisation layer sits between your application and the physical CPU, interrupt latency and memory bandwidth are fully deterministic.

Optional management overlays — unmanaged, managed, and fully managed — allow teams to align operational responsibility with in-house DevOps capacity. For workloads outside the standard catalogue, including additional NVMe carriers, committed bandwidth upgrades, or expanded IPv4 allocations, contact AvaHost pre-sales for a written configuration quote.

Hardware Architecture and Workload Alignment Across the Dedicated Server Range

The published dedicated server configurations span two processor microarchitectures, each suited to distinct throughput and concurrency profiles.

The AMD Ryzen 5 4650G at €85.00/mo delivers cost-efficient bare metal for application servers, mid-size REST APIs, and single-node Kubernetes control planes where per-core clock performance matters more than aggregate socket count. Its six-core architecture suits workloads with moderate parallelism that would otherwise over-provision a dual-socket Xeon platform.

At the opposite end, the 2× Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 at €149.00/mo provides the highest core budget in the range — suited to in-house hypervisor farms, heavy InnoDB buffer pool configurations, and parallel batch ETL workers where thread count directly limits throughput.

Mid-range dual-socket Xeon configurations address virtualisation hosts, CI farm executors, parallel transcode jobs, and 24/7 database replicas. Consult the plan selector for the full specification matrix, then validate storage layout requirements with AvaHost engineers before committing to a configuration.

Business outcome: Matching CPU architecture to workload concurrency profile at procurement stage avoids mid-contract hardware migrations — which carry dual-write window risk and change advisory board overhead — reducing TCO over a 12-month billing cycle versus iterative vertical scaling.

Storage Topology, RAID Configuration, and Write Latency for Database Workloads

Storage architecture on dedicated hardware directly governs fsync wait times, WAL commit latency, and IOPS headroom under concurrent write loads — metrics that determine whether a PostgreSQL or MySQL replica can sustain replication lag within acceptable thresholds during peak transaction periods.

RAID-10 remains the recommended topology for OLTP workloads where read and write IOPS fluctuate under checkout spikes or session bursts. RAID-10 stripes and mirrors simultaneously, providing both read parallelism and single-drive fault tolerance without the write penalty associated with parity-based RAID levels.

Storage type differs by configuration: most plans in the range use SSD or SAS storage, which covers the majority of OLTP and web workloads without additional cost. Select configurations are built on PCIe NVMe storage instead, delivering lower random read latency for workloads with the highest IOPS demands — check the plan selector to confirm which storage type ships with a specific configuration before provisioning.

• RAID-10 for OLTPSimultaneous striping and mirroring sustains write throughput under concurrent session loads whilst maintaining single-drive fault tolerance.
• Storage varies by planMost configurations in the range use SSD or SAS storage; select plans ship with PCIe NVMe instead, which further reduces fsync latency for PostgreSQL WAL commits and InnoDB doublewrite buffer operations. Confirm storage type per configuration in the plan selector.
• Buffer pool sizingAllocating 60–70% of physical RAM to InnoDB buffer pools on dedicated nodes eliminates shared-memory contention that affects equivalent VPS configurations.

Business outcome: Correct storage topology selection at provisioning time reduces the probability of emergency storage migrations during peak trading periods.

Managed Operations, SLA Scope, and Procurement Alignment for Technical Teams

AvaHost offers three operational tiers for dedicated servers: unmanaged, managed, and fully managed. Unmanaged configurations assume the client handles kernel updates, RAID health monitoring, and hardware RMA coordination directly.

For teams evaluating Dedicated Servers against public cloud bare-metal alternatives, data residency in Moldova supports GDPR compliance planning whilst maintaining competitive TCO relative to Western European bare-metal pricing. Validate data category classification with legal counsel before migrating personal data from existing EU infrastructure.

Network security on dedicated plans includes clean IPv4 reputation monitoring — operationally important when outbound mail delivery or API webhook traffic traverses provider networks.

• Unmanaged tierFull root access; client assumes responsibility for OS patching, storage alerts, and hardware fault coordination.
• Managed tierTicket-based remediation, patch scheduling, and maintenance windows aligned to client change management processes.
• Fully managed tierProactive monitoring, incident response, and initial forensic triage — appropriate for teams without 24/7 in-house NOC coverage.

Business outcome: Selecting the correct management tier at contract stage eliminates unbudgeted incident response costs.

Workload Isolation Patterns: Combining Dedicated Nodes with VPS and Shared Tiers

Dedicated bare metal does not need to serve every workload in a production environment. A common and cost-effective architecture runs client-facing marketing assets on Shared Web Hosting or CMS Hosting tiers, whilst API backends, worker queues, and database primaries operate on dedicated hardware — all within a single AvaHost account with separate billing lines per isolation boundary.

Game Server Hosting workloads benefit specifically from bare-metal UDP stability and deterministic tick rates when concurrent player sessions exceed two hundred. E-commerce database environments on dedicated nodes isolate cardholder data environments from marketing CMS tiers — a standard PCI-DSS scoping pattern for mid-market retailers that reduces audit surface area.

When annual growth projections exceed 30%, plan hardware refresh cycles with AvaHost sales before capacity limits force emergency migrations. Interim burst capacity can be provisioned using additional VPS Hosting nodes behind the same load balancer until new bare-metal chassis are racked and imaged. DNS, Email Hosting, and SSL Certificates remain centralised across the account; only the compute class changes per workload tier.

• Dedicated + shared hybridProduction databases on bare metal; marketing and CMS assets on shared tiers — reduces per-seat cost without compromising database isolation.
• Dedicated + VPS burstInterim VPS nodes absorb traffic spikes during hardware refresh cycles, preventing service degradation during planned capacity transitions.
• IPMI remote managementOut-of-band access on applicable hardware enables OS-level recovery without a datacentre visit — confirm hardware generation availability with AvaHost sales.

Business outcome: A tiered infrastructure model across dedicated, VPS, and shared plans reduces monthly compute spend by allocating bare-metal cost only to workloads that demonstrably require it, whilst retaining single-provider account management and consolidated support escalation paths.