Dedicated Servers
Bare Metal Server Hosting in the UK
Single-tenant bare metal - no hypervisor, no shared resources, no performance compromise
Single-tenant bare metal - no hypervisor, no shared resources, no performance compromise
About This Feature
Bare Metal Server Hosting in the UK from Glitch Servers provides full bare-metal performance with no virtualisation overhead - backed by AMD Ryzen hardware, NVMe Gen4 storage, and UK-native routing through AS212868. Bare metal is the industry term for what used to simply be called a dedicated server: a physical machine allocated entirely to one customer, with no virtualisation layer between your workload and the hardware. The benefit is consistent, predictable performance - no hypervisor stealing CPU cycles, no balloon driver competing for RAM, no storage I/O queue shared with other tenants. Our UK bare metal servers use Intel Xeon 7003/9004 series and Intel Xeon and AMD Ryzen processors, DDR4 ECC RAM, and NVMe Gen4 storage in RAID-10 configurations. IPMI out-of-band access is included on every server.
Hardware on Glitch dedicated server plans includes Intel Xeon and AMD Ryzen options with DDR4 ECC RAM configurations up to 512 GB and NVMe Gen4 storage in RAID configurations. Each server ships with a 1Gbps unmetered port as standard, with a 10Gbps burst port available as an upgrade for transfer-heavy workloads.
The network operates through AS212868 with direct LINX and LONAP peering and NTT/GTT Tier-1 transit, delivering consistent low-latency paths to UK ISPs and international destinations. Corero Smartwall inline DDoS mitigation protects every server at the network edge without requiring a separate scrubbing appliance or additional monthly charge.
Managed and unmanaged configurations are available. Unmanaged servers ship with a base OS install and full root access. Managed plans add proactive monitoring, OS patching, and 24/7 emergency response. Full hardware specifications and pricing are on the dedicated servers page.
Key Benefits
Every plan includes these capabilities as standard - no tier-gating, no hidden extras.
Your workload runs directly on hardware - no KVM/VMware/Hyper-V layer stealing CPU cycles or adding memory overhead.
Connect to the server's IPMI interface independently of the OS - reboot, reinstall, or troubleshoot without an engineer visit.
Failed components (drives, PSUs, RAM, NICs) replaced within 4 hours by our on-site engineers. No additional charge for warranty-covered parts.
Choose your CPU, RAM, storage, and NIC combination. Quote within 2 hours for custom builds.
Technical Specifications
Real specs on real hardware - not marketing numbers.
CPUs: Intel Xeon and AMD Ryzen processors
RAM: 64GB–512GB DDR4 ECC, expandable
Storage: NVMe Gen4 RAID-10 or HDD/SSD hybrid arrays
Use Cases
This feature is particularly well suited to these workloads and teams.
MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB deployments where shared-CPU overhead is unacceptable - bare metal provides guaranteed CPU cycles for query-intensive workloads without virtualisation latency.
3D rendering farms, video transcoding pipelines, and batch compute jobs that saturate full CPU capacity - bare metal avoids the CPU steal that affects virtualised instances under heavy load.
Established websites handling millions of daily requests - bare metal serves traffic without the hypervisor overhead of VPS, delivering lower response times at sustained load.
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