Bare Metal Servers — Built for Workloads That Can't Tolerate "Best Effort"
When shared infrastructure isn't an option
On October 20, 2025, AWS US-East-1 went down for hours. A latent race condition in DynamoDB's DNS automation took out Snapchat, Fortnite, Ring, Roblox, Coinbase, and Signal — along with thousands of businesses that had no second option. Nine days later, Microsoft Azure followed with a "faulty tenant configuration deployment" that grounded Alaska Airlines flights across the United States. Three weeks after that, Cloudflare took down X and ChatGPT.
If your workload can't sit inside a region-wide blast radius, you need dedicated hardware — and a team that picks up the phone when something breaks.
That's what IntelliData Bare Metal is built for.
What you get
A physical server. Yours. Not a slice of one. No hypervisor tax, no noisy neighbor, no shared NIC, no shared disk queue. Every core, every IOPS, every gigabit of bandwidth belongs to your workload.
Configurations include NVMe SSD, SATA SSD, and HDD tiers, with RAID 1 or RAID 10 for redundancy. Storage, network, and OS are yours to spec. We build it. We rack it. We monitor it. You run it.
With AWS or Azure, you get a ticket queue. With IntelliData, you get a named engineer.
| Hyperscaler bare metal | IntelliData Bare Metal | |
|---|---|---|
| Support model | Tiered tickets, offshore chat, paid premium support | A named engineer who knows your stack, reachable directly |
| Pricing | Variable. Egress fees. Per-IOP charges. Surprise bills. | Flat monthly fee. Bandwidth, firewall, backups, support included. |
| Compliance | Shared-responsibility model — you do most of the work | SOC 2 Type 2 attested by an independent third-party auditor (Trust Services Criteria, period ending Dec 31, 2024). HIPAA-ready. |
| Outage exposure | Region-wide failures cascade across thousands of tenants | Isolated environment. Smaller blast radius. Faster recovery. |
| Response time | Whenever your tier gets to the front of the queue | Per our SLA: Level 5 incidents (full work stoppage) — under 1 business hour. Level 4 — under 2 hours. Documented and contractual. |
| Relationship | You're an account number | You're a partner |
Who this is for
Quantitative trading and financial services. Microsecond latency matters. Shared tenancy is a tax you can't afford to pay. Dedicated NIC, dedicated cores, predictable jitter.
AI training and inference. GPU-attached bare metal for model training without the noisy-neighbor degradation that quietly kills shared-cloud throughput.
AEC firms running Revit, AutoCAD, BIM 360. Render farms and project servers where file I/O and sustained CPU clock matter more than abstraction layers.
FDA-regulated firms. 21 CFR Part 11 environments where you need to point at a specific machine, in a specific facility, with a specific audit trail. Validation gets easier when the hardware doesn't move underneath you.
Healthcare and PHI workloads. HIPAA-aligned hosting with BAAs, encryption at rest and in transit, and the documentation auditors actually want to see.
DoD contractors. CMMC Level 2 posture, ITAR-aware environments, controlled facilities.
What's included — and what doesn't show up later as a line item
- Dedicated physical server, spec'd to your workload
- NVMe / SSD / HDD storage with RAID 1 or RAID 10
- Unlimited bandwidth — no egress fees, no overage surprises
- Managed firewall
- Continuous backup
- 24/7 monitoring
- SOC 2 Type 2 attested platform (examined annually by an independent third-party auditor)
- A named engineering team — not a chatbot, not a ticket queue
- SLA-backed response times: Level 5 under 1 business hour, Level 4 under 2, Level 3 under 4 (per our SLA documentation — request current terms for full schedule)
Discounts available on 1, 2, and 3-year terms.
The IntelliData difference
Big-box cloud was built for self-service at hyperscale. That works until it doesn't — and when it doesn't, you're on hold while your business sits idle. We were built for the opposite: real engineers, dedicated hardware, predictable bills, and a small enough blast radius that one bad DNS update can't take down half the internet with us in it.
That's Human-Driven Technology. It's the thing AWS and Azure structurally cannot offer — because at their scale, they can't.
A note on what we'll need from you on the call
Workload type. Current spend. Compliance frameworks in scope (HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC, 21 CFR Part 11). Geography requirements. Anything you've been promised but never got from your current provider.
We'll come back with a config, a flat monthly number, and an engineer's name. That's how it should work.
