Database Mart vs Vultr Bare Metal
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Database Mart and Vultr Bare Metal.
Quick Verdict
3.3/5
Database Mart
0 reviews
3.7/5
Vultr Bare Metal
0 reviews
Vultr Bare Metal is rated higher (3.7 vs 3.3). US host (since 2005) selling low-cost VPS, dedicated and NVIDIA GPU servers from its own US data centres. VPS from $2.99, GPU servers from $21 per month. Vultr's bare metal offering provides dedicated physical servers without virtualization overhead. Ideal for compute-intensive workloads, databases, and applications requiring predictable performance and full hardware control.
Database Mart Dedicated & GPU server provider | Vultr Bare Metal High-performance bare metal servers with hourly billing and global deployment | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.3 (0 reviews) | 3.7 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $2.99/mo | Free tier available |
| Best for | Budget-conscious US workloads: Windows/RDP desktops and MSSQL boxes, always-on GPU inference or rendering on flat monthly rates, and small businesses wanting whole dedicated machines without colocation contracts. | Teams wanting dedicated hardware with cloud automation - HPC, database clusters, game backends, compliance workloads, and especially on-demand GPU training/inference clusters |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | — |
| RAM | 2 GB | — |
| Storage | 40 GB | — |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB/mo | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.9% | 100%✓ |
| Data-center count | 2 | — |
| €/vCPU/mo | €2.99 | — |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €1.50 | — |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Dallas, Texas, United StatesKansas City, Missouri, United States | — |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | — | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter |
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Database Mart
Pros
- + Genuinely low published prices: VPS from $2.99/mo, bare metal from $49/mo, GPU VPS from $85/mo
- + Windows Server licensing included in plan price instead of a $16-$52/mo add-on
- + Flat-rate GPU servers with unmetered bandwidth and zero egress fees suit always-on inference
- + 99.9% uptime SLA with 3x downtime service credits, plus automated backups
- + Two decades in business (since 2005) with its own US data centres and 24/7 human support
Cons
- - US-only footprint — Dallas and Kansas City, no European or Asia-Pacific locations
- - Entry plans (1 vCPU, 2 GB) are too thin for production workloads
- - Promotional pricing rotates constantly, so headline rates need checking against list prices
- - Heavy affiliate-marketing ecosystem makes independent reviews hard to find; company claims (customer counts) are unverified
- - Windows Desktop VPS runs evaluation Windows images, not licensed production Windows
Vultr Bare Metal
Pros
- + Dedicated physical servers with cloud ergonomics: on-demand, hourly, console/API/Terraform provisioning in minutes, no sales cycle
- + Vultr Clusters offers self-service multi-node and GPU bare-metal groups (e.g. 8x L40S nodes) without reservations
- + Full Vultr platform inheritance: S3-compatible object storage, storage gateways, load balancers, DNS, CDN, BGP bring-your-own-IP, L3/L4 DDoS mitigation
- + Single-tenant isolation for HPC, databases, compliance-sensitive and AI/ML workloads, under one account and invoice with the VM fleet
Cons
- - CPU bare-metal pricing is not public - on-demand rates appear only in the console/API and contract rates go through sales
- - Bare-metal availability is a subset of the 34-region platform and the stocked classes per region are not published
- - No refunds per the terms of service; backups are a 20%-of-price add-on and snapshots are not part of the bare-metal flow
- - No published hardware-replacement SLA; ticket-only support and metered egress at high spend levels
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