Liquid Web has been a well-established dedicated hosting brand for 27 years. Their 50,000+ servers powering 187,000 customers worldwide. In this article, I will focus on Liquid Web’s bare metal hosting. What exactly it is and what features does it have? What is the price, performance, and security?
Overview
Liquid Web’s bare metal hosting offers powerful customizable servers for businesses and IT professionals who need top-notch performance, reliability, and control. It is built on enterprise-grade hardware and free from resource contentions. It is optimized for demanding apps and workloads. A bare metal server is a physical computer dedicated to a single user. Bare metal servers can be more expensive upfront due to dedicated hardware, but they offer better cost-efficiency for high-performance or resource-intensive applications.
Price: starting from $79/mo
Promotional Price: $75/mo*
Renewal Price: $79/mo
What’s Unique About Liquid Web Bare Metal Hosting?
- Self Managed
- Quick deployment
- 100% Uptime SLA commitment
- Industry-leading reliability
- Superior Performance
- Customizability
- No setup fees
- Hassle-free migration
Pros and Cons
Liquid Web’s Bare Metal Features Highlights
| Disk Space / SSD Storage | 2 x 480 GB SSD – 2 x 960 GB NVMe |
| Bandwidth | 10TB Free. Upgradable to 20TB |
| Free Website Transfer: | Yes |
| Full Root Access: | Yes |
| RAM: | 16 GB – 128 GB. |
| Default Uplink Port: | 100M. Upgradable to Gigabit |
| Moneyback Guarantee: | Not Applicable for Bare Metal |
| Control Panel (Addon): | InterWorx, Plesk Web Pro, or cPanel Admin* |
| Website Backup & Restore (Addon): | Acronis Cloud (Offsite & Off Server) & Liquid Web (Off Server) |
| Uptime SLAs: | 100% |
| Payment Modes: | PayPal and Credit Cards |
| 24/7 On-site Support: | Phone/Chat/Email |
| Backup Drive | – |
| OS: | Linux and Windows |
| Extra IP | $5/2IP/month |
| Pricing Model: | Monthly |
| Free Dedicated IP: | 1 |
| Pricing: | Starting at $79 per month |
| Renewal Price: | ($79/month) |
Bare Metal Provisioning Time
After successful payment, you get your bare metal server instantly as these servers are preconfigured. There is no need to wait to get your server ready.
Prices and Plans
Liquid Web’s entry-level bare metal server with Intel Xeon E-2134 CPU starts at just 79/mo. Remember this price is for an unmanaged server. There is no control panel with this server. This server has a predefined SSD space of 480GB X 2 and 10TB of outgoing bandwidth with 16GB RAM. This 10TB bandwidth has a Gigabit Uplink Port by default
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Every month Liquid Web releases promotions to lower the price of bare metal. That means, for the first-time purchase you get a bare metal server at a very affordable cost. For more savings, head over to our coupon section.
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If you are looking for more space in your existing bare metal plan, you cannot add additional storage space as they are pre-configured. For this, you have to upgrade to a higher plan or a custom bare metal server.
Prices for Linux Bare Metal:
| Plan Name | SSD Space | CPU Cores | RAM | OS | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Xeon E-2134 | 2 x 480 GB SSD RAID-1 | 4 cores | 16 GB | Linux | $79 | Details |
| Intel E 2356G | 2 x 960 GB SSD | 6 cores | 32 GB | Linux | $150 | Details |
| Intel Xeon Gold 6523Y | 2 x 960 GB NVMe | 16 cores | 64 GB | Linux | $375 | Details |
| Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6523Y Dual | 2 x 960 GB NVMe | 32 Cores | 128 GB | Linux | $475 | Details |
Each Linux Bare Metal Server has a 10 TB Bandwidth
Prices for Windows Bare Metal:
| Plan Name | SSD Space | CPU Cores | RAM | OS | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel E-2356G | 2 x 960 GB SSD | 6 cores | 32 GB | Windows | $193 | Details |
| Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y | 2 x 960 GB NVMe | 16 cores | 64 GB | Windows | $418 | Details |
| Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y Dual | 2 x 960 GB NVMe | 32 cores | 128 GB | Windows | $518 | Details |
Each Windows Bare Metal Server has a 10 TB Bandwidth
Customer Support
Liquid Web is known as the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting. Prices are slightly higher than some other hosting providers but that is due to the high level of support that Liquid Web offers. Their support team is always available 24/7 through phones, live chats, and tickets. You get a 60 second response time on all phone calls and live chats and a 60 minute initial response time on all ticket requests. Apart from this, a huge knowledge base and blog section are available for self-help.
Security
All bare metal server plans include 500GB Acronis Cyber Backup in case any disaster happens to your server. Every bare metal server includes standard DDoS protection.
Performance
Liquid Web commits to a 100% network and power uptime guarantee with all of its servers. It’s very rare in the hosting industry. Bare metal servers come with top-tier SSDs by default.
Final Word
The downtime and slow server response kill many large online businesses or enterprises due to bad hosting infrastructure. Liquid Web’s bare metal server is designed for self-managed environments and is the perfect solution for any eCommerce website, gaming site, or app, and enterprise application or even financial services. Go ahead and leave your online business load on Liquid Web bare metal you just focus on your business growth. If you are not aware of bare metal management, leave management headaches on Liquid Web at an additional cost for complete peace of mind.
