Cherry Servers
Bare metal in Europe with bring-your-own-OS and per-hour billing.
Cherry Servers is the answer when you want bare metal but don't want to wrestle with OVH's dashboard. Hourly-billed dedicated servers from $50/mo, full IPMI, the option to load your own ISO. The European HQ and operations make them an easy fit for GDPR-bound projects.
For a typical SaaS workload, a Cherry bare-metal 6-core with 32 GB will outperform a $50 cloud VM by a noticeable margin and won't share noisy neighbours. The trade-off is no managed services — you bring your own Postgres, your own backups, your own everything.
Pros & cons
- + Bare-metal servers from $50/mo with hourly billing
- + Full IPMI access, BYO OS, BYO ISO
- + Datacenters in EU, US, Singapore
- + Honest, low-pressure sales process
- − No managed services — true unmanaged dedicated
- − Provisioning a custom config can take an hour or two
- − Smaller scale than OVH or Hetzner — fewer SKUs, less inventory
Plans & pricing
| Plan | Price | CPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smart 01 (bare metal) | $50/mo | Xeon E-2236 6c/12t | 32 GB | 480 GB | 25 TB |
| Cloud VPS C-1 | $12/mo | 2 vCPU | 4 GB | 80 GB | 4 TB |
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