Bare Metal Cloud

i3D.net's Bare Metal Cloud gives you dedicated physical servers you can consume like cloud infrastructure. It combines predictable baseline capacity with the ability to burst on demand.

High performance Bare Metal Cloud
for engineers who want both automation and control

i3D.net’s Bare Metal Cloud is designed for teams that need uncompromised performance and control, without giving up cloud‑like agility. You run directly on dedicated server—no hypervisor, no noisy neighbors—while choosing how you consume capacity.

API, Terraform, IaC

Native Terraform provider
Full REST API drops into existing pipelines

Full low-level control, out of the box

Direct BIOS access for hardware-level tuning
Full BMC access for out-of-band management and remote recovery

Low-latency global network for Bare Metal Cloud

Bare Metal Cloud runs on i3D.net's global, low-latency network. Compute and connectivity behave as a single system, not two things you have to stitch together.

69% of traffic direct-to-user

More than two-thirds of your traffic leaves our network straight to the destination ISP. No transit provider in the middle, no extra hops, no third party making routing decisions for you.

Your own VLAN, across 60+ PoPs

Connect your servers worldwide with private VLANs over our L3 VPN. You get a fully isolated global backbone between your locations, without building one yourself.

Anti-DDoS built in

Auto-detection with negligible latency, edge mitigation across 60+ PoPs, and inline filtering with Warden. Protection is part of the network, not something you bolt on later.

Engineering partnership, not just support

Our in-house solution architects and LiveOps engineers help you design, deploy, and run your Bare Metal Cloud infrastructure.

Solution Architects

Work directly with engineers who know the platform end-to-end to design and optimize your deployment.

LiveOps

24/7 in-house infrastructure monitoring and incident response. Real engineers, any time of day.

Need help with choosing the right Bare Metal Cloud instance types or the right hosting strategy for your specific workloads?

Bare Metal committed capacity, on‑demand, or both

Bare Metal committed capacity

Predictable, long‑term pricing
Guaranteed capacity
Ideal for stable, always‑on workloads

Bare Metal Cloud on-demand

Hourly, pay‑per‑use billing
Rapid provisioning
Ideal for bursty, seasonal, or unpredictable demand

“Your team gave us early access to a Terraform provider before it was even public. We tested with it, found a few issues, and every time we gave feedback, it was fixed quickly. Just the ease of working with your Terraform setup makes you our go-to when we need to spin up a new region quickly.”

Use Cases we serve with Bare Metal Cloud

AI Inference

Our purpose-built inference infrastructure delivers 3.5x better cost efficiency and 70% lower token costs than GPU setups.

Gaming

Combine i3D.net's Bare Metal Cloud scalability with our ultra-low-latency network, built specifically for gaming.

Enterprise

From Bare Metal Cloud to MPLS VPN and colocation, get the full-stack infrastructure and hands-on expertise your business-critical workloads demand.

Bare Metal Cloud for advanced users

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Talos, Flatcar OS, and Kubernetes support
Instance metadata API
Custom BGP sessions

Certifications

ISO 27001 certified information security management
NEN 7510 compliant for healthcare-grade data handling

FAQ

What's the difference between "bare metal servers" and "bare metal cloud on demand" and "bare metal cloud commit"?

Our Bare Metal Cloud committed capacity is equivalent to traditional dedicated bare metal servers: one or more dedicated machines reserved to run your workloads, with predictable long-term pricing.

Bare Metal Cloud on demand is the cloud-like flexibility layer you can add on top. The resources are still fully dedicated, no hypervisor, no virtualization layer, no noisy neighbors, but you get the ability to scale up and down with hourly, pay-per-use billing.

Which model you choose depends on your workload. Steady, predictable workloads usually run entirely on committed capacity. Workloads with fluctuating demand, like gaming studios or real-time communication platforms, typically combine both, using committed capacity as a stable base and on-demand to absorb spikes, so they never over- or under-commit.

What's included in the price of a Bare Metal Cloud server?

Every bare metal cloud server comes with:

Standard-tier DDoS protection (GLAD) — our award-winning mitigation with ACL and null-route support, designed for minimal latency impact
Included traffic bundle of up to 20 TB — exact allowance varies by location
1× public IPv4 address
Redundant uplink for network resilience
Access to i3D.net‘s premium global network, with low-latency routing engineered in by default

Does i3D.net offer high-bandwidth configurations?

Yes. Our standard setup is 2×25 Gbps, with 1 Gbps uplinks for older instance type.

Which operating systems does i3D.net support?

We support most major operating systems, including:

Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and others)
Talos with Omni and FlatCar OS
Windows Server
Custom iPXE scripts

Is remote access via iDRAC possible?

Yes. iDRAC is available for most instances as add-on upon request, giving you remote monitoring, management, and maintenance of your server.

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