Hivelocity Alternatives

Vultr Bare Metal

From €120/mo

On-demand bare metal across 32 global locations

5.0 (84)

Vultr Bare Metal provides on-demand dedicated servers with physical machines across all 32 Vultr datacenter locations. Hourly billing with Intel and AMD options.

Best for: Developers and businesses needing on-demand bare metal in specific global locations on Vultr's network

Cherry Servers

From €6/mo

Lithuanian bare metal and cloud at EU pricing

4.8 (383)

Cherry Servers offers dedicated bare metal and cloud VPS from Vilnius, Lithuania and Amsterdam, Netherlands. API-driven infrastructure with hourly billing and GDPR-compliant EU hosting.

Best for: EU developers wanting affordable bare metal or VPS with hourly billing and full API control

Scaleway

Freemium

French cloud with GDPR-native design

4.8 (475)

French cloud provider (Iliad Group) offering VPS, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, and serverless — all with GDPR compliance built in and competitive European pricing.

Best for: European companies who need GDPR-compliant infrastructure and want a French alternative to AWS

Equinix Colocation

From €500/mo

World's largest colocation network — 240 datacenters

4.6 (343)

Equinix is the world's largest colocation provider with 240 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenters globally. Direct cloud on-ramps to AWS, Azure, GCP, and private network peering.

Best for: Enterprises needing colocation in a neutral facility with direct connections to cloud providers

OVHcloud

From €4/mo

Largest European cloud provider by server count

4.4 (415)

French cloud giant with 400,000+ servers globally. Offers some of the cheapest dedicated servers available. Strong in Europe with bare metal speed and anti-DDoS on every server.

Best for: Cost-sensitive teams who need European dedicated servers at the lowest possible price point

Vultr

From €5/mo

32 datacenter locations globally

4.2 (499)

One of the broadest datacenter networks in the VPS market — 32 locations across Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. High Frequency NVMe plans rival Hetzner performance.

Best for: Applications that need specific geographic datacenter locations — especially APAC, Africa, or South America

AWS EC2

Freemium

The original cloud — 750+ instance types

4.1 (128)

Amazon EC2 is the original IaaS cloud, offering 750+ instance types across compute, memory, storage, and GPU. On-demand, reserved, and spot pricing. 99 availability zones globally.

Best for: Enterprise teams with AWS expertise who need the broadest instance selection and global availability

Cherryservers

From €65/mo

European bare metal and cloud VPS from €65

4.1 (164)

Cherry Servers is a Lithuanian bare metal and cloud provider with EU datacenters (Vilnius, Amsterdam). Dedicated servers, VPS, and cloud. Annual plans and hourly billing. EU data residency.

Best for: EU businesses needing dedicated servers at competitive pricing with Lithuanian or Amsterdam data residency

DataPacket

From €80/mo

Global bare metal with 35 datacenter locations

3.9 (175)

DataPacket offers dedicated servers and bare metal across 35 datacenter locations globally. Custom hardware, BGP sessions available, and 100Gbps uplinks on premium servers.

Best for: Network-intensive businesses needing bare metal in many global locations with high-bandwidth uplinks

phoenixNAP

From €100/mo

Bare metal cloud in North America and Europe

3.9 (322)

phoenixNAP offers on-demand bare metal servers, colocation, and IaaS in Phoenix, Ashburn, Atlanta, Amsterdam, and Singapore. HIPAA-compliant infrastructure available. From $100/month.

Best for: Compliance-heavy businesses needing HIPAA-compliant bare metal with API provisioning in US and EU