If it doesn't have to be in the US... I'd go with https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml or https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ which are both subsidiaries of OVH. These are, in my opinion, the best dedicated servers you can get for the price.

If it's got to be in the US, I'd go with IONOS https://www.ionos.com/pro/dedicated-server/ due to the higher cost of https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/

I would never give my money or information to AWS, cloud.google.com, Azure, or IBM's BlueBomination hosting options.

Hetzner (hetzner.com) has bare metals, also have an auction [0] site where you can bid on "old" bare metal servers and get some good deals, especially if it's just for some experimenting and such.

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/sb

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned https://www.online.net/ yet.

I use them for my important side projects and haven't had any issues. (although not to avoid virtualization, but just because it's more important for personal stuff to have fixed costs per month / not paying for bandwidth)

Zare.com is a good one that I know of. UK based small business with fast and friendly support. I've used the services of the company behind them (HydraCom) since 2013 and they've always been great. I've not yet tried their dedicated servers, but I will soon have a need for one for a high-CPU workload.

The leading providers IMO are AWS, Packet.net, and SoftLayer. In the second tier you have OVH and Hetzner.

This server search site [1] was linked on here recently:

[1] - https://www.serverhunter.com/

Nice, thanks :)

Vultr does bare metal servers. I haven't used them personally, but I'm a fan of their VPS offerings.

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