Managed dedicated servers
Your own physical server, with the operating system kept patched, hardened, monitored and backed up by us. You keep root, and you keep control of your application.
Who this is for
Teams that have outgrown shared hosting or a stack of VPS plans, need predictable performance or data isolation, and do not want to spend an engineer's week every month on operating system upkeep. Typical workloads: busy WordPress or WooCommerce installs, Laravel and Rails apps, PostgreSQL or MySQL primaries, cPanel servers for an agency's clients, CI runners and internal tools.
What we do on Essential Managed
- Everything in Unmanaged
- OS security patching: monthly window plus urgent CVEs
- Initial hardening: SSH keys only, firewall, brute-force blocking, automatic security updates
- 24/7 monitoring of uptime, disk, RAID and load, with alerts to you and us
- Offsite backups: 100 GB, nightly, 14-day retention
- We open and chase hardware tickets for you
- Requests answered next business day; outages 4-hour first response, 24/7
What stays with you
Your code, your deploys and your application settings. We do not change application configuration on Essential. Pro Managed adds configuration changes on request (web server, PHP, database tuning, firewall rules) and two admin hours a month for the jobs that do not fit a ticket template.
How backups and restores work
A nightly encrypted backup of the paths and databases we agree at handover is sent to object storage in a different facility from your server. Restores are a ticket: tell us what and from which night, and we put it back, either in place or alongside the live copy so you can compare. We test-restore every managed server at least once a quarter, because a backup nobody has restored is a guess.
Tiers
| Unmanaged Hardware price | Essential Managed +$69/mo per server | Pro Managed +$179/mo per server | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Root / Administrator access | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Failed hardware replaced | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Basic network DDoS (L3/L4) filtering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OS security patching | – | Monthly + urgent CVEs | Monthly + urgent CVEs |
| Initial security hardening | $99 one-time | ✓ | ✓ |
| 24/7 monitoring and alerting | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nightly offsite backups | – | 100 GB, 14 days | 250 GB, 30 days |
| We handle hardware tickets with the data center | You open, we relay | ✓ | ✓ |
| Configuration changes | – | – | ✓ |
| Admin time included | – | – | 2 hours / month |
| Outage first response, 24/7 | 4 hours | 4 hours | 1 hour |
| Routine requests | Next business day | Next business day | Same business day |
| Quarterly health review | – | – | ✓ |
Servers you can have managed
| Server | CPU | RAM | Storage | Network | Locations | Unmanaged | Essential Managed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xeon E-2236 · 16 GB | Intel Xeon E-2236 6 cores / 12 threads | 16 GB | 480 GB SSD | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA | from $99/mo | from $168/mo |
| Xeon E-2136 · 16 GB | Intel Xeon E-2136 6 cores / 12 threads | 16 GB | 480 GB SSD | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Dallas, TX | from $129/mo | from $198/mo |
| Xeon E-2236 · 32 GB · 2×480 GB | Intel Xeon E-2236 6 cores / 12 threads | 32 GB | 2 × 480 GB SSD | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $199/mo | from $268/mo |
| Xeon E-2236 · 64 GB | Intel Xeon E-2236 6 cores / 12 threads | 64 GB | 960 GB SSD | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Chicago, IL | from $229/mo | from $298/mo |
| Xeon E-2236 · 64 GB · NVMe | Intel Xeon E-2236 6 cores / 12 threads | 64 GB | 500 GB NVMe SSD + 512 GB NVMe SSD | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $269/mo | from $338/mo |
| Xeon E-2336 · 128 GB · 10 Gbps | Intel Xeon E-2336 6 cores / 12 threads | 128 GB | 1 TB NVMe SSD + 500 GB NVMe SSD | 10 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $409/mo | from $478/mo |
| Xeon E-2388G · 128 GB · NVMe | Intel Xeon E-2388G 8 cores / 16 threads | 128 GB | 7.68 TB NVMe SSD | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $459/mo | from $528/mo |
| Ryzen 9 5950X · 64 GB | AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 cores / 32 threads | 64 GB | 1 TB NVMe | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Los Angeles, CA | from $229/mo | from $298/mo |
| Ryzen 5 5600G · 64 GB · SSD + 4 TB | AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 6 cores / 12 threads | 64 GB | 480 GB SSD + 4 TB HDD | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $239/mo | from $308/mo |
| Ryzen 5 5600GT · 64 GB · 2×2 TB RAID 1 | AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT 6 cores / 12 threads | 64 GB | 2 × 2 TB HDD, hardware RAID 1 | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $269/mo | from $338/mo |
| EPYC 7302P · 32 GB · 10 Gbps | AMD EPYC 7302P 16 cores / 32 threads | 32 GB | 480 GB SSD | 10 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Dallas, TX | from $249/mo | from $318/mo |
| EPYC 7302P · 64 GB · 2×2 TB NVMe | AMD EPYC 7302P 16 cores / 32 threads | 64 GB | 2 × 2 TB NVMe | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Dallas, TX | from $499/mo | from $568/mo |
| EPYC 7302P · 256 GB | AMD EPYC 7302P 16 cores / 32 threads | 256 GB | 480 GB SSD + 1 TB NVMe | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Chicago, IL | from $489/mo | from $558/mo |
| EPYC 7413 · 256 GB · 10 Gbps | AMD EPYC 7413 24 cores / 48 threads | 256 GB | 480 GB SSD | 10 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $359/mo | from $428/mo |
| 2× Xeon Silver 4309Y · 128 GB | 2 × Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y 16 cores / 32 threads | 128 GB | 2 × 1 TB NVMe + 480 GB SSD | 1 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $409/mo | from $478/mo |
| Ryzen 9 5950X · 128 GB · 15.36 TB NVMe | AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 cores / 32 threads | 128 GB | 15.36 TB NVMe | 10 Gbps 20 TB/mo | Tampa, FL | from $819/mo | from $888/mo |
| Threadripper PRO 7965WX · 1 TB RAM | AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX 24 cores / 48 threads | 1 TB | 512 GB NVMe SSD + 2 TB NVMe SSD | 10 Gbps 20 TB/mo | New York metro | from $779/mo | from $848/mo |
Prices in USD per month, as of October 28, 2026. Stock is limited per location; we confirm availability before you pay. No setup fees on these configurations.
Coming from another host?
We move sites and databases for a flat fee, and cPanel-to-cPanel moves are free with a three-month managed commitment. See migration for how a cutover is planned, or ask IFHosting in an order request.