The best dedicated server hosting for you depends on what would hurt most: the bill, an old CPU, a missing city, or a bad night when nobody is obliged to answer your ticket. We’re GigeNET, one of the six hosts in this comparison, so every competitor figure below comes from that company’s own website, checked on September 29, 2026. Where they’re cheaper, the table shows it, and the rest of this page shows what the price buys.
What to compare first
Start with the workload. The table below has the numbers.
- If the only goal is the lowest monthly bill and an old CPU is fine, the budget listings in the table cost less. Check what happens when that server breaks before you count the savings.
- If the server runs your business, compare three things the table makes easy to see: whether the SLA has a published credit schedule, whether support response is guaranteed in writing, and who covers a hardware failure.
- If you need bandwidth, compare unmetered prices, not transfer quotas. Our 10 Gbps unmetered servers start at $499 a month in Chicago, and the $159 Xeon D-1541 Special has 1 Gbps unmetered in all three of our regions.
- If an auditor will ask, look for a SOC 2 Type II report that covers the hosting company, not just the building.
That’s the business we built: a published SLA credit schedule, a support response time you can claim credits against, a flat-priced managed option, unmetered 10G in Chicago and SOC 2 Type II. We’ve been in business since 1998. Start with our dedicated servers.
The dedicated server comparison table
Read on each host’s own pages on September 29, 2026. “Not published” means we couldn’t find it publicly. CPU launch years are Intel’s and AMD’s.
| GigeNET | InterServer | Liquid Web | ReliableSite | ServerMania | OneProvider | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest listed server | $126/mo | $54/mo (rapid deploy) | $44/mo for 2 months, then $88 | $49/mo (specials) | FAQ: “typically” from $50/mo, depending on stock | $25.99/mo (was $39.99) |
| CPU in it (launch year) | Xeon E3-1230 v1 (2011) | Xeon E3-1270 v2 (2012) | Xeon E-2134 (2018) | 4-core Intel, CPU varies (32 GB DDR3, 1 TB SSD) | Not stated | Xeon L5520 (2009) |
| Bandwidth on it | 30 TB, then $0.02/GB | 1 Gbps unmetered on its build-your-own plans | 10 TB | Not listed on the specials table | Not stated | 30 TB on 1 Gbps |
| US locations | 3: Ashburn, Chicago, Los Angeles | 3: New York region, Dallas, Los Angeles | 5 own sites; entry box Lansing only | 4: New York metro, Miami, Los Angeles, Dallas | 3: New York metro, Buffalo, Los Angeles | 36 cities listed |
| Setup fee / term | $0 / month to month | $0 / monthly | Not published / monthly, 1 or 2 years | $0 / monthly, 10-day notice | Not published / not published | Not shown / monthly default |
| Uptime SLA / public credit schedule | 99.5% (99.95% managed, 100% with HA Guarantee) / yes | 99.9% network / “case by case,” capped at 50% | 100% network / yes, 10x downtime | 100% network / none found | 100% network / yes, 5% per hour, capped at 80% | Varies by location / no single schedule |
| Support response in writing | 30 min (15 managed), with SLA credits | Goal of 1 to 3 hours, “no guarantee” | Chat under 1 min, tickets 1 hour, “not guaranteed” | Averages 15 min or less | 15 min (FAQ) | No time stated |
| Managed option | $99/mo, or $79 with cPanel | Extra support at $160/hour | Fully managed from $154/mo list | +$99/mo | $39.99 to $129/mo | Self-managed; support plans $79 or $149/mo |
| Compliance attestation on site | SOC 2 Type II | Not published | Mentions “SOC 2 documentation” | Data centers “SSAE 16 Type II” audited | Facilities “SAS70 Type II certified” | Not published |
| 10G unmetered | Chicago, from $499/mo | Listed from $703/mo (Los Angeles); 10G port option $500/mo | Not published | +$599/mo add-on | FAQ: “generally” from $849/mo | From $459/mo (Los Angeles, “Fair Usage”) |
How we picked the six
These are the hosts that show up in US Google results for the searches our buyers run, like “best dedicated server providers” and “top dedicated server hosting.” Psychz ranks too, but its pages didn’t show prices we could cite, so OneProvider got the sixth slot. Hivelocity doesn’t rank for these searches, so it’s out.
We took each host’s cheapest listed server, then read its SLA and terms. ServerMania’s configurator prices didn’t load for us, so we quote its FAQ. Sales are labeled. No review sites.
Where GigeNET stands out
A support response time with money behind it
Support hours and promises vary across these six. Ours is the only published SLA we found that puts a response time in writing with credits attached. Our SLA commits to thirty minutes on the Essential tier and fifteen minutes on managed servers.
Liquid Web aims to answer chats in under a minute and tickets within an hour, and says those times are not part of an SLA. InterServer’s goal is 1 to 3 hours with no guarantee. ReliableSite says it averages 15 minutes or less. ServerMania’s FAQ offers a 15 minute response time, and its SLA covers network uptime. OneProvider’s SLA page says tickets aren’t live chat and “immediate responses are very rare.”
Say a ticket sits for 90 minutes. On our Essential tier, that’s a 10% credit on the month. On a managed server it’s 25%. Under the other five hosts’ published terms, we found no credit for it.
An SLA you can read before you buy
Our credit schedule is public, with separate tables for network availability, hardware replacement and support response, capped at that month’s fees. ServerMania and Liquid Web publish good schedules too. InterServer grants credits “on a case by case basis,” capped at 50% of the base fee. We couldn’t find a public credit schedule behind ReliableSite’s 100% network SLA. OneProvider says SLAs differ by location.
SOC 2 Type II
We’re SOC 2 Type II certified. Liquid Web mentions “SOC 2 documentation” for financial customers. ReliableSite says its data centers completed SSAE 16 Type II audits, and ServerMania says its facilities are SAS70 Type II certified. Those two statements describe the buildings. If an auditor will want a report, ask each host which company it covers.
Unmetered 10G in Chicago
Our 10 Gbps unmetered servers start at $499 a month in Chicago. InterServer’s 10G unmetered servers were listed from $703 (Los Angeles), and its 10G page also offers 10 Gbps unmetered as a $500 monthly bandwidth option. ServerMania’s FAQ says its 10G unmetered servers generally start at $849. ReliableSite lists 10G unmetered as a $599 monthly add-on to the server. OneProvider beats us on price: it listed a Los Angeles server at $459, marked down from $569 and labeled “Fair Usage.” We didn’t find a 10G unmetered server in Chicago on any of the other five sites.
Worked example: a video origin moving 300 TB a month on a metered server with 30 TB included would pay about $5,400 in overage at $0.02/GB. Unmetered 10G in Chicago starts at $499.
If a 1 Gbps unmetered port is enough, the Xeon D-1541 Special is $159 a month in any of our three regions.
Management at a flat monthly price
Management is $99 a month per server, or $79 if the server has a cPanel license. Advanced Monitoring comes with it; on its own it’s $49 a month. A cPanel Premier Metal license is $49.50. Managed servers also move up to our 99.95% availability tier with 1-hour hardware replacement and the 15-minute response.
That’s mid-pack: ReliableSite also charges $99, ServerMania runs $39.99 to $129, and InterServer bills extra support at $160 an hour.
Servers are month to month with a $0 setup fee. If you’re coming from another cPanel host, the cPanel-to-cPanel migration is free. Moving something other than cPanel? We help with the move. On larger deployments it’s often included; smaller jobs are quoted up front.
Price, hardware and locations: what you’re paying for
Entry price
Our cheapest server is $126 a month for a Xeon E3-1230 v1 in Chicago or Los Angeles, with 30 TB of bandwidth, $0 setup and no contract. Several hosts in the table list lower sticker prices. Before you compare, add up what’s in ours: the SLA credit schedule, a guaranteed support response, 2-hour hardware replacement, DDoS protection and R1Soft backups with 1 TB of space on new orders.
Want more machine for the money? The Xeon D-1541 Special is $159 a month with 64 GB of RAM, a 1 TB SSD and a 1 Gbps unmetered port in Ashburn, Chicago or Los Angeles.
Hardware
Every standard build is Intel Xeon, chosen for steady server work rather than benchmark peaks. Need more cores or memory? Our Chicago dual Xeon E5 builds go up to 512 GB of RAM, custom builds take a week or less, and we’ll spec a server to your workload through the quote form.
Locations
We run three US regions on purpose: Ashburn for the East Coast and Europe, Chicago for the middle of the country, and Los Angeles for the West Coast and Asia-Pacific. Our latency page shows measured round trips from 29 cities, so you can check how close your users are before you order.
Reading the SLA headlines
Three hosts in the table advertise 100% network uptime. A headline is only as good as the credit behind it, so read the schedule. Ours is public: on a standard server, availability under 99.5% earns a credit that steps up to 100% of the month’s fee below 85%, managed servers are credited from below 99.95%, and support response and hardware replacement each have their own credits. Few hosts in the table put all three in writing.
Want to see dedicated server prices across the wider market, not only these six? Our cost guide sorts real listings into price bands and shows what each one buys.
Fine print worth reading on the others
Every host here has terms worth reading before you order. A few we noticed on September 29, 2026:
- InterServer: its SLA lists hardware failures as an exception and makes backups the customer’s responsibility, and dedicated servers aren’t refundable once service starts.
- Liquid Web: the $44 entry price is 50% off for two months, for new accounts, in Lansing only; after that it’s $88.
- ReliableSite: we couldn’t find a public credit schedule behind its 100% network SLA.
- ServerMania: its configurator prices didn’t load for us, so the figures here come from its FAQ.
- OneProvider: servers are self-managed and SLA terms vary by location, so read the one for your city.
Head-to-head comparisons
Weighing GigeNET against one host in particular? These pages go line by line through price, SLA credits, support response, hardware replacement and DDoS, using each company’s own published terms:
- GigeNET vs ReliableSite
- GigeNET vs InterServer
- GigeNET vs FDC Servers
- GigeNET vs Hetzner
- GigeNET vs OVHcloud
Not ready to order yet?
Tell us what you’re after and we’ll email you the build and the price. Need it today? Call (800) 561-2656 and we’ll check what’s in stock.
FAQ
OneProvider, at $25.99 a month for a Seattle Xeon L5520 server on September 29, 2026, marked down from $39.99. Liquid Web’s $44 promo, ReliableSite’s $49 and InterServer’s $54 come next, and ServerMania says its servers typically start around $50 depending on stock. GigeNET starts at $126. Compare the CPU and bandwidth too.
No. An SLA is a promise to pay credits when a target is missed, and the credit schedule decides what it’s worth. Read the exclusions and the claim window before comparing headline numbers.
Of these six, GigeNET’s is the only published SLA we found that ties a support response time to credits: 30 minutes on self-managed servers and 15 on managed ones. The others we could check state goals, averages or FAQ figures without a credit schedule.
Yes. Every GigeNET dedicated server includes 4 Gbps of DDoS protection, with 6, 8 and 10 Gbps tiers on the order form. Ask every host what happens when an attack goes past what’s included. Our SLA excludes denial of service attacks from credits, and Liquid Web’s SLA lists attacks as an exclusion too.
Pick a host whose SOC 2 report covers the hosting company, not only the building. GigeNET is SOC 2 Type II certified; ask any host for the report before you sign.
Got a quote from one of these hosts? Send the spec through our custom quote form and we’ll price the same workload, or browse our dedicated servers to compare configurations yourself.