What Servers are you using for VPS hypervisors or nodes?

[quickservers]

I'm curios what everyone else has been using for their physical server (Make/model, RAM, Storage, NIC, ect.) to run VPS hypervisors on. Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

 

[vpsfan]

I’d be happy to share our experience!

The choice of server hardware largely depends on your target audience and priorities. For us, enterprise-grade resilience and ease of use are key, so we standardize on Dell PowerEdge R7XX-xd variations. These servers are highly reliable, feature-rich, and most of our clients appreciate the familiarity with iDRAC for management. They also offer strong native OS support in terms of Windows, Linux or even vendor branded appliances. However, this does come at a premium cost.

For use cases requiring high-capacity storage, we’ve also deployed SuperMicro systems, such as the SYS-2029U-E1CRT, which can accommodate a large number of storage bays—ideal for storage-intensive workloads.

You can check out our dedicated server offerings to get a sense of our configurations in terms of CPU, memory, storage capacity, and more.

Hope this helps!

 

[Greenhost.cloud]

I'm curios what everyone else has been using for their physical server (Make/model, RAM, Storage, NIC, ect.) to run VPS hypervisors on. Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

It depends on your specific needs and budget. I've been using a Dell PowerEdge R740 with 128GB RAM and a mix of SSD and HDD storage for a good balance of speed and capacity for one of our needs. For NIC, I opted for a couple of 10GbE cards to handle the network traffic efficiently.

 

[OffshoreRacks]

For years we have used them and they are very reliable a true workhorse. The XD family of Poweredge
Dell Poweredge r730xd (no native nvme, but there is a workaround)
Dell Poweredge r740xd (native nvme)
Dell Poweredge r750xd (native nvme)
This serves can do anything and you can find spare parts basically anywhere. If you are sending this server for colocation is a delight to work with and everyone will know this server.

 

[EthernetServers]

Our hardware varies slightly, but generally speaking, looks like this:

4x 2 TB Samsung PM893 Enterprise SSD
2x Intel Xeon Silver 4116 (48 CPUs)
Software RAID 10
8x Micron 32 GB DDR4 2400 MHz ECC
Dual PSU
Dual 10 Gbps NICs

Put essential notice on the dual PSU and NICs. For years, we worked with providers who only offered a single power supply and NIC, so when a PSU or switch failed, there would be an outage - but fortunately, things have moved forward since then 🙂

 

[ITivan80]

Dell Power edge R630 are some good server for Hypervisor servers.

 

[metanet]

Another vote for Dell Poweredge R7XX series. Just make sure the firmware on the dedicated servers are up to date, as well as ensure the drive firmware compatibility with their RAID cards when dealing with Dell EMC - especially if running VMWARE's Dell Image.

 

[Andrew BlueVPS]

Hypervisors and nodes in Virtual Private Servers (VPS) is crucial for performance, reliability, and scalability, with popular options including KVM, Xen, OpenVZ, VMware, and LXC.
I recommend using them both.

 

[Andrew BlueVPS]

Popular choices include Dell PowerEdge R740/R740xd, HP ProLiant DL380 Gen10, Supermicro SuperServer 1029U-TR4, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650, and ASUS RS720Q-E9-RS24.

 

[LLHOST]

Dell Power edge R630 is very popular and reliable to have a deal with.

 

[introserv_rd]

HP ProLiant DL385 G10 + Apache CloudStack - because the number of cores is crucial and platform must be affordable with an excellent ecosystem and developer support.

 

[nonamehosts]

in 2026 we are using mostly following setup for our hypervisors:
Dell R640; 2x6248 20C 2.5GHz; 256GB RAM; 2x240GB + 6x1.92TB; 4x1G NIC

 

[ZYNOO]

We are using multiple options
For our Bulgaria-located VPS nodes:

R6515: EPYC-7763 / 1TB RAM / 2x 480GB SSD + 4x 6.4TB NVMe
R640: 2x Gold 6230 / 768GB RAM / 2x 480GB SSD + 4x 6.4TB NVMe
R640: 2x Platinium 8270 / 768GB RAM / 2x 480GB SSD + 4x 6.4TB NVMe

Recently started in the USA as well, but experimental with small nodes
EPYC 4545P / 256GB / 2x 3.84TB NVMe

 

[RackWorks]

Dell R640,. 2x Xeon Gold 6138, 128GB DDR4 LRDIMM ECC, 2x Intel SATA SSD + 1x Intel U.2 NVMe. NICs: 2x 1GbE Broadcom BCM5720 onboard + 2x 10GbE Broadcom BCM57412. Dual 750W Platinum PSUs

 

[oXnames]

Mostly use R640/R740's for VPS nodes, the 640s alone can handle some serious loads.

Working on NVMe tests but the hard drive shortages are a pain.

Power usage isn't so bad on the 14th gen.

 

[FrancoFang]

Everyone here is naming a chassis, which is the right answer when you are
buying for one or two facilities. It stops being the deciding factor once
you are in more than a handful of them.

Two things that ended up mattering more for us, running nodes across a
spread of markets:

Where the spares physically live. "You can find Dell parts anywhere" is
true in Ashburn and Frankfurt. It is not true in Jakarta, Manila, Lima or
Bogota. In those markets an RMA can involve customs, and a week is the
optimistic case. That pushes you hard towards standardising on one or two
SKUs across every site - not because they are the best box for each site,
but because you can pre-position spares and any local smart hands has
seen the machine before. We have accepted a slightly worse chassis for a
site more than once for exactly that reason.

What the local hands have already touched. A platform your remote hands
team can work on at 3am beats a better platform they cannot. That is an
argument for boring, widely deployed hardware, which is probably why this
thread is ninety percent PowerEdge.

Seconding EthernetServers on dual PSU and dual NIC. The failures that
actually wake you up are almost never the CPU.

Provider side here, so read that as our experience rather than a
recommendation.

 

[AfinaG]

I’m using a Dell PowerEdge server with 128 GB RAM, NVMe SSD storage, and a 10 GbE NIC. It works well for running multiple VPS instances.