Ready servers · First-month discount
Discounted dedicated servers, ranked by what each one measured
These discounted dedicated servers are ready machines in our racks, put in order by what an average month of each costs per 1,000 benchmark points. The benchmark ran on that unit, not on a datasheet. The discount comes off the first month; from the second month the server bills at its list price, and every row prints both figures.
- Score measured per unit
- No coupon code
- Month to month
- Unmetered port
01 Ledger
Ready dedicated servers on discount, cheapest per benchmark point first
One row per machine type in one city, each a unit you can order as it stands. A row carries its measured figures, the first-month price, the list price it bills at afterwards and its hourly rate. Change the sort to rank by core count, one-thread speed or disk instead.
Nothing on the ledger passes all of those filters at the moment. Loosen one, the city or the price ceiling first.
No ready unit carries a discount right now. The percentages are set again each night, so the ledger may fill up tomorrow.
Meanwhile the full ready list shows every racked machine at its list price, and the cheap dedicated server page sets out our lowest-priced lines.
The ready list did not answer. Reload the page, or open the full ready list directly.
Per 1,000 points and per core use the average month of the first year: the discounted month plus eleven months at list price, divided by twelve, then by the score or the core count. That keeps a deep cut on a slow machine from looking better than it is.
Amsterdam and Bucharest rows bill in euro, New York, Miami and San Francisco rows in US dollars; the two are ranked as printed, not converted. Twin units in the same city are folded into a single row, whose figures and order link belong to the unit with the lowest first-month price.
cores · GB memory · · · unmetered
Benchmark
- Single core
- All cores
- Memory GB/s
- Disk read MB/s
random reads a second
off month one
first month
then a month
or an hour at list rate
02 Method
How each benchmark score is measured
The score is our own measurement, taken on the exact unit a row links to. It exists to compare our machines with one another. It is not a Geekbench or PassMark figure, and reading it against one tells you nothing.
- Reference
- 1,000 points is one core of a 2013 Intel Xeon E5-2650L v2.
- Single core
- One core runs four workloads: compression, integer, floating point and data handling. The result is their geometric mean against the reference.
- All cores
- The same four workloads on every core at once, still against the one-core reference, so 8,000 means about eight reference cores of work.
- Memory
- Gigabytes copied per second with every core copying.
- Score
- A weighted geometric mean: all cores 50%, single core 30%, memory 20%.
- Disk
- Sequential read in MB/s and random reads per second, from the fastest disk in the machine. Kept out of the score, so the storage fitted does not move it.
- When it runs
- Once per machine, during the hardware scan of an unsold unit, and again only when its processor, memory, network card or disks change, or when the benchmark code does.
How the ledger turns it into a rank
The default order is money per unit of measured work over a realistic first year.
( F + 11 × L ) ÷ 12 ÷ S × 1,000
- F the first-month price, after the discount
- L the list price, billed from month two
- S the unit's benchmark score
Lower is better. Per core works the same way with the core count in place of the score. A unit not measured yet sinks to the end of any benchmark ranking rather than being guessed.
Waiting units go through the hardware scan again about every two hours; the benchmark repeats only when that scan finds different hardware.
03 Terms
How the dedicated server discount is billed
The discount is a single line on your first invoice. Everything else about the server is billed exactly as it would be at list price.
| Where it appears | On the first invoice only, as one line reading "Ready server discount", the percent, and "off the first month". |
|---|---|
| From month two | The list price, the second figure on the row, until you cancel the server. |
| What it comes off | The machine: plan, processor, memory, drives, graphics, port and IP addresses. Backup, a support tier, the operating system licence, other software and any setup fee are billed in full. |
| Paying ahead | A 3, 6 or 12 month cycle takes 5%, 10% or 15% off the machine lines of every cycle, software excepted. On the first cycle the ready discount still covers one month of the machine, not the whole cycle. |
| By the hour | List price ÷ 730 × 1.3 per hour, billed in arrears on the monthly cycle. Hourly rental takes no ready discount. |
| Which percent you get | The percent on the row at the moment you order is recorded against your server; later nightly changes leave it alone. |
| Who sets it | A nightly stock review. Identical machines in one city share one percent, deeper the more months of stock the group holds. Its rules give a group under six months of stock none and cap the percent at 45%. |
| Changing the hardware | A different processor, memory or disk before ordering makes it a build to order: catalogue price, a one-time setup fee, no ready discount. |
| Currency | Euro for Amsterdam and Bucharest, US dollars for New York, Miami and San Francisco. |
| Handover | Roughly 30 minutes from approval, with the operating system installed. Approval is the payment check and comes first. |
| Commitment | None. Month to month, no contract. |
04 Trade-offs
What a bare metal server discount changes, and what it leaves alone
A unit gets a discount because its line has more machines waiting than it sells in six months. The percent says nothing about the machine's health; the benchmark beside it says how fast it is.
Unchanged
- All of the machine is yours: no hypervisor under you, no other tenant, root from the first login.
- The port is unmetered at the speed printed on the row.
- The same support as any server: our live-chat AI replies within seconds and can look at the server with you, and a person takes over when you ask for one.
- Month-to-month billing and the service agreement every other order is under.
Read before ordering
- Most rows are previous-generation enterprise machines, HPE on most lines; the DSK rows are desktop PCs. All are priced for their age, and the single-core figure is where that age shows.
- The cut is one month. Compare rows on the list price too, since that is the monthly bill from the second invoice on.
- Out-of-band console depends on the model. Rack servers and blades have a controller, the M710x cartridge has a console, the M710p cartridge has power control only. Ask in chat before ordering if you need one.
- Memory, disks or anything else added after the order are priced at catalogue rates.
05 Answers
Questions about discounted servers
Is the discount for the life of the server?
No. It comes off the first month and nothing after it; from the second invoice the server bills its list price. Servers ordered before 24 October 2026 were sold under the older rule and keep the price they have.
How does your benchmark score compare with Geekbench or PassMark?
It does not. It is our own test, run on each unit, where 1,000 points is one core of a 2013 Xeon E5-2650L v2. Use it to compare our machines with each other, for example a cheap quad-core cartridge against a dual-socket rack server.
Why rank by cost per benchmark point instead of by percent off?
Because a large percent off a slow machine can still buy less work per month than a small percent off a fast one. The ledger divides a first-year average month by the score, so the discount counts for what it is worth: one month in twelve.
Why is a dedicated server discounted at all?
Because its line holds more stock than it will sell for months. Every night the stock of each machine type in each city is compared with how fast it sells, and slow groups get a percent. A fast-selling group gets nothing.
Does paying a year ahead add to the discount?
Yes, the two are separate. A 12-month cycle takes 15% off the machine lines of every year you pay for, and the ready discount takes its percent off one month of the first cycle.
Can I rent a discounted server by the hour?
Yes, at the hourly rate on its row, which is worked out from the list price and carries no discount. Hours are billed after use, with no minimum term.
How fast is a ready server handed over?
About 30 minutes after approval, with the operating system you picked already installed. The approval, a payment check, takes longer than the install.
Are these servers refurbished?
Mostly they are previous-generation enterprise machines bought off lease and racked by us, the same hardware as our list-price lines; the DSK rows are desktop PCs. Each one passes a hardware scan before it is offered and is scanned again about every two hours while unsold.
06 Elsewhere
Cheap dedicated server deals outside this ledger
The ledger only holds units that carry a discount today. If none fits the workload, these pages cover the rest of the fleet.
- Cheap dedicated serversOur lowest-priced lines at list price, each with what its low price gives up.
- The full ready listAll racked units, discounted or not, filterable by city and hardware.
- Micro dedicated serverThe smallest whole machine we rack, for DNS, a VPN or a monitoring node.
- Build to orderChoose each part and the city, with a live price per choice. Handed over 4 to 24 hours from approval if the parts are on the shelf.
Pick a row, check its numbers, order it
The first invoice carries the discount and every later one the list price. If you are unsure which row suits the job, describe the workload in chat and the AI will compare rows with you.