Dedicated Servers Overview

A dedicated server gives you an entire physical machine to yourself, with no other customers sharing its CPU, memory, or disks. This guide explains what Kapsule dedicated servers are, the tiers we offer, how managed and unmanaged differ, and where everything lives in KPanel.

What a Dedicated Server Is

Every other hosting product on KapsuleHost puts your workload on shared hardware in some form. Web hosting shares a server between many sites. Cloud servers share a physical host between many virtual machines, though the Dedicated vCPU range reserves cores for you.

A dedicated server is different: the whole machine is yours. The CPU, the RAM, the NVMe disks, and the network port belong to one account. Nothing else runs on the box unless you put it there. That matters when you need predictable performance under sustained load, when you have licensing or compliance requirements tied to single tenancy, or when you simply need more capacity than a virtual machine can offer.

The trade-off is that hardware is physical. A dedicated server is built for you rather than cloned from an image, so it is not instant, and it cannot be resized with a click the way a cloud server can. If you want elastic capacity you can grow and shrink in minutes, read Resizing a Cloud Server and stay on the cloud range.

The Dedicated Tiers

There are five dedicated tiers, smallest to largest:

Bedrock and Slate are the general-purpose choices: plenty of fast cores and a lot of RAM for databases, application servers, and busy stores. Granite is the high-core-count option when you are running many parallel workers. Basalt and Titan are the Intel side of the range, for workloads that benefit from that architecture or that need very large core counts on a single machine.

Prices differ by tier, by whether you choose managed or unmanaged, and by your account currency. Rather than repeat a table that can drift, open Store, then the Dedicated Servers card, to see live pricing in your own currency.

Unmanaged or Managed

Every dedicated tier is sold in two forms.

Unmanaged hands you root on the machine and leaves the operating system to you. You patch it, you configure it, you install what you need. KPanel still gives you power control, a rescue environment, firewall rules, reverse DNS, traffic graphs, and an OS reinstall, so the hardware-level tools are all there. What is not there is somebody else keeping the software healthy.

Managed is the same hardware with our engineers looking after the operating system layer. Choose this if you want the machine to yourself but do not want to own patching and day-to-day server administration.

The comparison in Managed vs Unmanaged Cloud Servers draws the same line and is worth reading before you decide.

What the Setup Fee Covers

Dedicated servers carry a one-time setup fee on top of the monthly price. So do storage and GPU servers. It covers the physical build: pulling the hardware, racking and cabling it, installing the operating system, and handing it over tested.

Cloud servers, whether ARM, Standard, or Dedicated vCPU, carry no setup fee at all, because nothing is physically built for them.

The setup fee is charged once, with your first invoice for that server. It is shown separately at checkout alongside the monthly price, so you can see both before you pay.

Where Dedicated Servers Live in KPanel

Dedicated Servers is a top-level item in the KPanel sidebar, below Cloud Servers. Open it and you get:

• Four counters across the top: total servers, how many are online, how many are still provisioning, and how many need attention.
• A row per server showing its name, its specification, its server number, its IP address, its location, and a status pill.
• A Manage link on each row that opens the server.

Opening a server takes you to /dedicated/<server>, which is the overview page: vital signs, network details, billing dates, an activity log, and a grid of every tool for that machine. Two deeper pages hang off it, Manage and Console, covered in Managing a Dedicated Server and Dedicated Server Console Access.

Storage servers appear in this same list, because they are built and delivered on the same path.

What You Manage Yourself

On the overview page you can restart the server and rename it. Everything else sits one level in, on the Manage page:

• Power: graceful restart, hardware reset, forced power cycle, and Wake-on-LAN.
• Rescue system: boot a temporary Linux environment, or a browser-based virtual console, to repair a machine that will not start.
• Reverse DNS: set the PTR record for each IP, which matters for mail delivery and TLS.
• IPs and subnets: see what is routed to the server and order an additional IPv4 address.
• Traffic: inbound and outbound volume by day, month, or year.
• Firewall: an upstream network filter that drops traffic before it reaches your machine.
• Advanced: a full operating system reinstall, behind a typed confirmation.

Storage and GPU Servers

Two sibling ranges are built the same way and share the same delivery path.

Storage servers, the Shelf, Trench, and Abyss tiers, trade CPU for very large disk capacity and carry no egress fees. See Storage Servers Overview.

GPU servers, the Spark, Forge, Foundry, and Reactor tiers, add NVIDIA accelerators for AI training, inference, and rendering. See GPU Servers Overview.

Getting Help

Dedicated hardware is the one product where a human is always in the loop, so do not hesitate to ask. Billing changes and cancellation for a dedicated server go through our team rather than a self-service button, and so does releasing an IP address.

Open a ticket from Support in KPanel, or email support@kapsulehost.com with the server name and server number from the overview page.