7 Best Dedicated Server Hosting Companies

Founded in 1997, LiquidWeb are very experienced and well respected hosting company with 3 of their own private data centers in Michigan and over 20,000 customers in 120+ countries. They offer Tier 1 premium bandwidth, electronic security systems, dedicated power transformers and various forms of UPS backup, plus diesel generators. Their Storm servers are also worth checking out for a high performance cloud alternative.

They have won several high profile awards and consistent praise on impartial forums and review sites mainly down to their dedicated and VPS services. Whilst they do provide shared hosting their main area of expertise is providing hosting for enterprise hosting.

They have over 300 support staff with specialists in general technical Support, server Setup, security and more. Dedicated servers come with a range of options – you can choose the processors, OS, number of core severs as well as several optional extras like backups, storage and firewalls.

They have a 100% network uptime guarantee, a 30 minute hardware replacement guarantee and a 30 minute initial response time guarantee. If they do not meet these targets you get 10 times the downtime back as credit. Base Features :

• 8GB RAM (DRR3)
• RAID1 Primary Drive
• 2 x 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA RAID 1 Redundant (Primary)
• 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA (Backup)
• 120GB Kingston SSD Bonus Drive
• 5 TB Outbound & FREE Incoming Bandwidth

Prices start from $179 per month. See price and specs tab to compare prices.

Future Hosting is a company that does not have the same profile as some of the others on this list but I have had good experiences with them and they are very well regarded by many as can be seen if you do some research on the hosting forums (which is why I originally signed up with them). I currently use their VPS service for one of my other websites and have generally been impressed with their tech support and the speed and reliability of their servers.

They have a global network infrastructure with 5 data centers in 3 continents including Miami, Chicago, Santa Clara/San Francisco, Brisbane, or London and offer managed and unmanaged servers ($20-$30 extra per month for managed depending on if you want their standard or pro managed service). The main features of their dedicated server packages are as follows:

• Standard setups with Quad Core & Hex Core up to 16GB RAM & 2TB HDD with RAID and SSD drives – that is powerful
• Option to add SATA II hard drives up to 1TB, SA-SCSI (SAS) Hard Drives up to 600GB, RAID Cards and Upgrade RAM by 1GB increments
• Free Migrations with their managed server option (cPanlel -> cPanel or Plesk -> Plesk)
• Choice of geographic location – Miami, Chicago, Santa Clara/San Francisco, Australia, or London
• Various options for automatic backups and pro-active server management (added fees).
• 24/7 365 Customer support – ticket only but from experience they do respond very fast 24/7
• FREE website migration or transfers
• CentOS 6 with control panel choice between cPanel, Plesk or Interworx
• Choice of multiple geographical data center locations
• Full root access
• Additional IP’s at $2 per month
• Ability to link to their global CDN network

Prices start at $89.95 per month with their current discounts.

The following are the prices Future Hosting’s nine available dedicated hosting plans and a summary of their CPU, bandwidth, base RAM and base disk space. To see a full table of features for their dedicated hosting plans click here.

Singlehop are consistently rated highly in reliability tests and amongst impartial reviewers, They are focused exclusively on business and enterprise clients who need premium reliable hosting (i.e. just dedicated and cloud hosting and no shared). Flexibility and customizability is one of the standout features of SingleHop’s dedicated servers. If you like to be in control of your server specs, then you might want to consider this particular provider. Their servers are located in three military greade data center in Amsterdam, Chicago or Phoenix). All their dedicated bare metal servers include:

• Wide range of Windows and Linux OS options
• All fitted with Intel processors with Kingston RAM memory
• SATAII, SCSI and Intel SSD hard drive options
• Hybrid capability
• 100GBs national network
• Unlimited inbound bandwidth for all server options
• 24/7 free telephone support

Single Processor, Quad-Core Series:

Single Processor, Dual Capable, Quad & Hexa-Core Series:

Dual Processor, Quad & Hexa-Core Series

InMotion Hosting has been in the web hosting business since 2001 and is consistently ranked amongst top web hosts by impartial reviewers – I have checked loads! They offer business, VPS, reseller and dedicated hosting and tend to get great customer feedback on all hosting types. They are on this recommended list due to the quality of their servers, their independently verified uptime, the extra features they add and finally their wide spread and consistent customer positive feedback regarding their reliability, customer support and value for money.

A summary of the features included in all their dedicated hosting packages include:

• 99.999% net uptime – 2 x Tier1 bandwidth providers are used to keep websites online
• Managed Hosting to offer best fit solution and platform optimization
• All factory built dell servers with CentOS
• 2 x Tier1 bandwidth providers to keep websites online
• Proactive monitoring of all servers to maintain performance and uptime
• Rebootless server upgrade using Ksplice
• 30 day money back guarantee
• Free cPanel and WHM on each server ($425 value)
• Free Launch assist service provided by the webhost’s Managed Hosting Team – $300 value
• Redundant bandwidth Tier-1 providers
• Expertise in using CentOS as server operating system

Their prices start from $199 per month with no set up fee.

SiteGround was founded in 2004 by a small group of self-confessed geeks who decided to set up their own hositng company and they got fed up of the hosting options available at that time. It currently has data centers in the US (Chicago), Europe (Amsterdam) and Asia (Singapore) and now hosts over 320,000 websites. I have read dozens of reviews on from dedicated server clients several impartial hosting reviews sites and forums and they are nearly all universal. The scores from 308 independent reviews across all their server types averages 4.4/5 which is very high in this industry given the tendency for more unhappy clients to leave reviews than happy ones. Each dedicated server plan includes the following:

• 30 Day Uptime of 99.999%, 365 Day Uptime: 99.996%
• Average Support time of under 15 minutes
• Unique ‘Geeky’ Features, composed of WordPress / Joomla staging and autoupdaters, Cloudflare CDN setup, and an option for
• Performance Boosters for WordPress, Joomla and Magento to increase load speeds
• Free Cloudflare CDN
• FREE domain name
• FREE two dedicated IP addresses
• 24/7 priority support by phone, live chat and email
• Regular software updates and active server monitoring

Prices start at $229 per month for their dedicated servers.

The three dedicated hosting packages at SiteGround are as follows:

As their name suggests, 100TB are set up to appeal to clients requiring  high performance, lots of data storage and  a very high bandwidth,. They just offer dedicated, reseller and reseller server services with CDN options and focus on offering faster speeds and more reliability than their competitors through their fully owned multinational data centers and network running Cisco equipment.

Their standard 100TB bandwidth is significantly higher than any other host but of course this is only one factor determining the speed and quality of a dedicated host. Their freebies (up to $75 Google Adwords Credit & free domain for life) are nice but are more suited to shared hosts given the prices are $210+ per month. Although I could not find as many impartial reviews from current and previous clients compared to other hosts, the ones I did find were all positive above 100TB.com. Also, comparing their server specs, infrastructure, support options (toll free phone, live chat, ticket) and value for money all lead me include them on this list. They offer linux and windows options In addition to these, 100TB.com has eight Tier-2 or Tier-3 data center locations around the world, where the dedicated servers are housed.

The company promises a fast and dependable network, fully automated servers, and 24/7 customer support. They have the option of 14 x Single Processor Intel servers starting from $201.15, 11 x dual multi-core servers, 2 x express servers, 2 x storage servers (12Gb – 24GB), 2 x private network servers. Their main features for dedicated server package are as follows:

• linux and windows support
• 7 x Tier 3 data centers across the US, Amsterdam and Asia. 1 x Tier 2 data center in London.
• 14 x Single P
• Up to 8 IP addresses
• Free Unlimited SSL certificates
• 99.9% uptime guarantee – independent monitoring sites I have checked have them at 99.91% uptime over the previous 1268 days
• 24/7 Email and phone support on a toll free phone plus live chat
• Control panel of Cpanel (+$25) or Plesk (+$40), CentOS or Citrix XenServer 5.6
• Managed Options ($20 Basic, $69 Supreme)
• Backups with R1Soft CDP Storage 100GB – 400GB ($10 – $33)
• Free Unlimited SSL certificates

Prices start at $201.15 per month for its best selling server, the Intel Ember E3-1230v2 (see pricing tab for details of all server set ups and fees).

Founded in 1998, Media Temple is one of the oldest and most well known dedicated hosting providers with over 125,000 customers and 1.5 million websites hosted on its servers. Based in the US, the company is mainly focused on providing services to businesses and high traffic websites who want a premium service rather than the cheapest possible. Whilst they do offer shared hosting it is more expensive than average and it not their primary service – their forte is in dedicated and VPS hosting.

They have high performance kit including SAS RAID-10 disks with i/o isolation, multi-core hyper-threaded Intel processors and an enterprise-class network equipment with Gigabit ethernet. Their dedicated plans are for those who have outgrown other hosting packages and want their own dedicated box.

They charge $2000 per month for developer dedicated hosting and $2500 per month for their DV developer package.This is obviously much higher than the other base prices listed in this article but that is only because their default setup is already at the same level as the most powerful set ups of other providers. If you are not quite as these levels yet you could start with their VPS hosting which starts at $50 per month(1GB RAM, 30GB Storage, 1TB Bandwidth) or Managed Hosting starting at $350 per month (1GB RAM, 30GB Storage, 1TB Bandwidth)

Their dedicated hosting plans offer you:

• 99.999% uptime guarantee
• Single-tenant, dedicated server
• 64GB buffered DDR3 RAM
• Multi-core (HT) Intel Xeon 2.13 GHz
• Fully redundant RAID-10
• 8x 300GB 10k RPM SAS hard drives
• Battery-backed write-cache
• Control Panel & Root Access
• 24/7/365 support by live chat, phone or twitter.

If you are not quite as these levels yet you could start with their VPS hosting which starts at $50 per month (1GB RAM, 30GB Storage, 1TB Bandwith) or Managed Hosting starting at $350 per month (1GB RAM, 30GB Storage, 1TB Bandwith)