Bare Metal Dedicated Servers in Ashburn, Virginia (IAD)
Bare metal dedicated servers serving the Northern Virginia market, physically hosted in our Ashburn, Virginia data center.
Single-tenant servers in our Ashburn data center, ordered online, managed from one portal and billed monthly. No shared hypervisor and no neighbors on your hardware.
- Single-tenant hardware
- Out-of-band BMC access
- Monthly billing, one invoice
- Upgrade or release in the portal
IAD bare metal server plans
Choose a configuration, review detailed specifications, and order online. All plans are billed monthly. Need custom hardware or multiple servers? Request a quote.
l1.small
$299.00/mo
- 2 x Intel® Xeon Silver 4309
- 64 GB of Memory (8x8GB)
- 2 x 480 GB M.2 SSD Boot Drives (in mirrored RAID), UEFI
- 2 x 8 TB SAS Hard Drives
- Dual Port 10/25 GB Network Card
c1.small
$650.00/mo
- Intel® Xeon® 6505P
- 4 x 32GB DDR5-6400 (128GB RAM)
- 1 x 960GB NVMe (8 Total Drive Bays)
- 2-Port 25GbE SFP28 Intel E810
c1.medium
$1160.00/mo
- 2 x AMD EPYC™ 9135
- 4 x 64GB DDR5-5600 (256GB RAM)
- 2 x 960GB NVMe (8 Total Drive Bays)
- 4 x 1.6TB NVMe
- 2-Port 25GbE SFP28 Intel E810
s1.large
$2575.00/mo
- 2 x AMD EPYC™ 9135
- 8 x 64GB DDR5-5600 (512GB RAM)
- 2 x 960GB NVMe (24 Total Drive Bays)
- 4 x 15.3TB NVMe
- 4-Port 25GbE SFP28 Intel E810
From order to running server
- 1
Choose your server
Compare the Ashburn plans above, review the full specifications and pick the configuration that fits.
- 2
Deploy your operating system
Select an image, add your SSH keys and let provisioning build the server from a clean template.
- 3
Run it and grow
Manage power, console and billing in the portal, and upgrade, downgrade or release the server when your needs change.
Why teams run bare metal in IAD
Dedicated performance
Your workload gets the whole machine: every core, all the memory and every drive. There is no hypervisor layer and no other tenant on the hardware.
In Data Center Alley
Ashburn is the heart of Northern Virginia, one of the most connected internet hubs in the world, which makes it a practical home for applications that need low latency to the East Coast and to major networks and cloud providers.
Control without the overhead
Reach the server out of band, reinstall from a template or boot a rescue environment, all from the same portal that handles your billing and support.
Predictable monthly pricing
Every plan has a published monthly price, and your servers appear on a single invoice with any other Platform DataBank services.
What teams run on it
Databases and analytics
Keep every core, all the memory and every drive for large databases, search clusters and analytics jobs that a shared host would throttle.
Regulated workloads
Run workloads that cannot share hardware with another tenant, with a NIST 800-88 wipe of every drive when you release the server.
Hybrid footprints
Pair dedicated servers with cloud VMs or colocation under one account, one portal and one monthly invoice.
How bare metal compares with shared cloud VMs
| Topic | Bare metal | Shared cloud VMs |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | The whole server is yours | A virtual slice of a shared host |
| Performance | Consistent, with no neighbors on the hardware | Can vary with other tenants on the host |
| Pricing | A fixed monthly price per server | Usage based, so the bill moves with consumption |
| Control | Hardware-level access through the BMC | Limited to what the hypervisor exposes |
Included with every IAD server
BMC on every server
Out-of-band access over Redfish or IPMI for power, console, sensors and firmware.
Cloud-init provisioning
Templates for Debian, Ubuntu, Rocky, Alma and Windows Server, with your SSH keys applied to Linux images.
Rescue boot
A one-click rescue environment with filesystem and network tooling.
Secure wipe on release
A NIST 800-88 purge or cryptographic erase on every drive when you release the server.
Inside the racks
IAD bare metal server FAQ
Where are the Ashburn bare metal servers located?
Servers are deployed in the Platform DataBank data center in Ashburn, Virginia, part of the Northern Virginia (IAD) market.
How is a bare metal server in Ashburn priced?
Each plan has a published monthly price and appears on a single invoice with any other Platform DataBank services. Add-ons and custom configurations are quoted separately.
Can I manage the server remotely?
Yes. Every server has out-of-band access through its BMC, using Redfish or IPMI, for power control, console, sensors and firmware. A rescue boot environment is also available from the portal.
Which operating systems can I install?
Provisioning templates cover Debian, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and Windows Server. Linux images can include your SSH keys from the first boot.
What happens to my data when I release a server?
Every drive is wiped with a NIST 800-88 purge or a cryptographic erase when you release the server.
Can I get a custom configuration or several servers in Ashburn?
Yes. Sales engineers design and quote multi-server builds and custom specifications, so use the quote form and describe what you need.
Deploy bare metal in IAD
Create an account to order online, or tell us what you need and our sales engineers will quote it.
Looking for something else? See all dedicated server options or the service level agreement.