Search for a cheap dedicated server in Europe and the prices on the product cards start well below €100 a month. The number on the card is rarely the number on the invoice. Bandwidth quotas, extra IPv4 addresses, DDoS mitigation, setup fees and support tiers are the lines where a cheap server quietly turns into an ordinary one.
The fair way to judge a low price is to read it line by line. This guide does that for the cheapest NexonHost build, prices every add-on you are likely to need, and is blunt about the workloads where saving money on the processor is a false economy.
The €129 build, line by line
| What you get | Entry build |
|---|---|
| Processor | 2× Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3: 16 cores / 32 threads, 2.40 GHz base, 3.20 GHz turbo |
| Memory | 128 GB DDR4 |
| Storage | 1× 240 GB SSD |
| Network port | 1 Gbps, unmetered and guaranteed |
| DDoS mitigation | 40 Gbps / 4 Mpps at layer 4, included |
| IPv4 addresses | 1 included |
| Setup fee | None |
| Delivery | Automatic, in minutes |
| Locations | Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Marseille, Milan, Madrid, Vienna, Warsaw, Sofia, Bucharest, Dublin, Ashburn |
| Price | €129 a month |
In the store the price is two lines: €79 for the server and €50 for the unmetered 1 Gbps port. That split tells you where much of the value sits. A 1 Gbps port running flat out for a 30-day month moves about 324 TB (1 Gbps × 2,592,000 seconds ÷ 8 bits per byte). You will not use all of it, but there is no quota to exceed and no overage line waiting at the end of the month.
Where cheap servers get expensive
The same five lines decide whether a low price stays low, whoever you buy from.
Bandwidth. A quota of a few terabytes looks generous until a backup job, a busy launch or an attack eats it. Overage is billed per terabyte, and it is the line most likely to double an invoice. The trade-off between quotas and unmetered ports is worked through with published rates in Unmetered Bandwidth vs Metered.
IPv4 addresses. The RIPE NCC, the registry that allocates addresses for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, ran out of IPv4 on 25 November 2019. Addresses now change hands on a market, and providers pass the cost on. AWS, for example, has charged $0.005 an hour for every public IPv4 address since 1 February 2024, which is $3.60 a month per address. On this build one IPv4 address is included and each extra one is €3 a month, up to five. A full /24 is €250 a month plus a €100 setup fee.
DDoS mitigation. A server without mitigation is cheap right up to its first attack. This build, like the rest of the Xeon and EPYC 9004 range, includes 40 Gbps / 4 Mpps of layer 4 mitigation. If you need more, the tiers step up to 80 Gbps for €250 a month, 100 Gbps for €300, and up to 1 Tbps for €1,500.
Setup fees and lock-in. There is no setup fee, billing is monthly, and first-time customers of a service get a 7-day money-back guarantee under the terms of service. Read the conditions before you rely on it: DDoS-protected services stop being refundable after 3 days of use.
Support. 24/7 ticket and email support for hardware and network faults is included. Help inside your operating system is not: troubleshooting, software installation and monitoring is €99 a month for two hours, and fully managed with live support is €599 a month. Managed vs Unmanaged Server Hosting explains how to decide whether you need either.
| Add-on (monthly) | Price |
|---|---|
| Extra IPv4 address | €3 each, up to 5 |
| /24 subnet | €250 + €100 setup |
| 2× 500 GB SSD (for RAID 1) | €10 |
| 6× 1 TB SSD | €60 |
| 2 Gbps port instead of 1 Gbps | €100 instead of €50 |
| 10 Gbps port instead of 1 Gbps | €500 instead of €50 |
| 80 Gbps DDoS mitigation | €250 |
| Troubleshooting support, 2 hours | €99 |
Cheap per month is not cheap per core
The entry build has the lowest monthly price in the range. It does not have the lowest price per core.
| Build | Cores | Monthly | Per core |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2× Xeon E5-2630 v3 | 16 | €129 | €8.06 |
| 2× Xeon E5-2690 v4 | 28 | €249 | €8.89 |
| 2× Xeon E5-2699 v4 | 44 | €425 | €9.66 |
| 1× AMD EPYC 9254 | 24 | €449 | €18.71 |
| 2× AMD EPYC 9254 | 48 | €679 | €14.15 |
| 2× AMD EPYC 9554 | 128 | €959 | €7.49 |
| 2× AMD EPYC 7702 | 128 | €989 | €7.73 |
| 2× AMD EPYC 9754 | 256 | €1,519 | €5.93 |
If your workload can keep 128 or 256 cores busy, the large EPYC builds are cheaper per core than the entry Xeon. If it cannot, the €129 box is the cheapest way to get a whole server to yourself.
Where the low price is real
The entry build is good value for work that is parallel, bandwidth-heavy, or simply needs isolation more than speed:
- web and application servers behind a cache, staging environments and CI runners
- crawlers, scrapers and queue workers that spread across many threads
- download mirrors, game patch distribution and video segments, where the port matters more than the processor (see unmetered dedicated servers)
- VPN endpoints, mail relays and monitoring nodes
- a backup target, once you add disks
Where cheap stops being cheap
Single-thread speed. Intel launched the E5-2630 v3 in the third quarter of 2014, and it turbos to 3.20 GHz. Game servers, databases answering many small queries, and anything with one hot thread will feel that. AMD rates the EPYC 9254 at up to 4.15 GHz. A slower processor is not a saving if players, customers or queries are the ones waiting on it.
Memory bandwidth. Intel lists a maximum of 59 GB/s per socket for the E5-2630 v3, from four channels of DDR4-1866. AMD lists 460.8 GB/s per socket for the EPYC 9254, from twelve channels of DDR5-4800. Analytics, in-memory caches and large databases live on that number.
Storage. One 240 GB SSD is a boot disk, not a home for data you cannot rebuild in an hour. Add a pair of drives and mirror them: 2× 500 GB SSD in RAID 1 is €10 a month. Understanding RAID covers which level fits which job.
Delivery time. The Xeon builds provision automatically in minutes. The EPYC builds carry an estimated delivery of about two weeks, so the cheapest server is also the quickest one to get.
Less than a whole server. If the workload fits in a few cores and a few gigabytes, a VPS is cheaper still. VPS vs Dedicated Server sets out where the line sits.
Comparing cheap dedicated server offers in five minutes
- Price the port, not the box: quota or unmetered, guaranteed or shared.
- Count the IPv4 addresses included and price the extras.
- Ask for the size of the included DDoS mitigation, in Gbps and in packets per second.
- Check the setup fee, the minimum term and the refund window.
- Look up the processor's launch date on the manufacturer's own specification page.
- Find out whether the storage is redundant or a single disk.
- Read what the included support actually covers.
A provider that answers all seven on the product page is usually one whose invoice matches its price.
Where to start
A cheap dedicated server from NexonHost starts at €129 a month: 16 cores, 128 GB of RAM, an unmetered 1 Gbps port, 40 Gbps of DDoS mitigation and one IPv4 address, provisioned in minutes in any of twelve European and US locations. Ports scale from 1 Gbps up to 100 Gbps depending on the build. Every configuration, from the entry Xeon to the 256-core EPYC, is on the dedicated servers page, and if your users are in the Benelux, the Netherlands dedicated server page lists the builds available in Amsterdam.
Specifications and pricing are as of 28 September 2026 — check the product pages for current figures.
Sources
- NexonHost store configurator for the Dual E5-2630v3 and the other seven dedicated builds: base prices, port, disk, IP, support and DDoS mitigation options. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- Intel Xeon Processor E5-2630 v3 specifications, Intel. Launch Q3'14, 8 cores / 16 threads per processor, 3.20 GHz turbo, DDR4-1866, 59 GB/s. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- AMD EPYC 9254, AMD. Up to 4.15 GHz boost, 12 channels of DDR5-4800, 460.8 GB/s per socket. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- The RIPE NCC has run out of IPv4 Addresses, RIPE NCC, 25 November 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights, AWS News Blog. $0.005 per IP per hour from 1 February 2024. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- Terms of Services, NexonHost, section 11, money-back guarantee. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- Computed: 1 Gbps × 2,592,000 s ÷ 8 = 324 TB per 30-day month; $0.005 × 720 hours = $3.60; per-core prices are monthly price ÷ physical cores.
