Leaseweb

What Leaseweb actually is

Leaseweb is one of the old guard: founded in 1997 by Dutch airline pilots Con Zwinkels and Laurens Rosenthal, headquartered in Amsterdam, part of the OCOM group, and grown through acquisition — Netdirekt in Germany (2010), Nobis/Ubiquity in the US (2016), ServInt (2018), and iWeb with its Canadian data centers in 2021. The result is an infrastructure provider with more than 80,000 servers, over 20,000 customers, and a product catalogue that runs from single dedicated boxes to colocation, CDN, object storage, and cloud. The dedicated-server line is what this listing covers, and it remains the company's spine: single-tenant physical machines, configurable RAM, disks, and bandwidth, deployed from a catalogue with published delivery times and managed through a customer portal and API.

The selling point has always been the network. Leaseweb peers with 2,000+ ISPs across 29 Internet Exchange points and 43 points of presence, quotes a 99.999% core network uptime figure, and puts 10+ Tbps of total bandwidth capacity behind its products. For media delivery, gaming backends, and any workload where the pipe matters as much as the CPU, that peering density is the reason the name keeps appearing on shortlists. Note that our database previously carried a "19 Tbps" capacity claim; the current site states 10+ Tbps of bandwidth capacity with 5.5 Tbps of available capacity quoted on the dedicated-server pages, so we have corrected the record.

The footprint is wide by European-host standards. Leaseweb lists 25 data centers: six in Europe (two Amsterdam-area sites in Haarlem and Schiphol-Rijk, two Frankfurt sites, Slough and central London), twelve in North America (Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, three Montreal sites, the New York/New Jersey site in Edison, Phoenix, San Jose, Seattle, and Manassas near Washington DC), five in Asia (Hong Kong, three Singapore sites, Tokyo), and two in Sydney. Servers are sold in nine countries — Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, the UK, and the US — which is fewer than the data-center count because not every catalogue exists in every facility.

Pricing: what you really pay

Leaseweb's dedicated pricing works on two levels: a featured catalogue with published prices, and a configurator where memory, disks, and bandwidth are priced per server. In the published catalogue, entry runs at about €60.13 per month excluding VAT for a Dell R210-II with a Xeon E3-1230v2, 32 GB RAM, 2×2 TB SATA, and 30 TB of included traffic — with a published delivery time of one hour on that build. Scale up and the numbers move quickly: a dual Xeon 4214 with 128 GB is listed at $179.15 per month, and a dual EPYC 7413 with 128 GB at CA$286.84 per month, as listed in late August 2026. Some configurations publish five-day delivery rather than one-hour, and prices vary by region and currency.

The traffic model deserves a careful read. Featured servers list 30 TB of included traffic per month, with port speeds on a ladder from 1 Gbps up to 200 Gbps and a dedicated High Bandwidth Server line for buyers who want the port to be the product. Bandwidth and port options are configured per server rather than published as a single tier ladder, so the total cost of a high-throughput configuration is a quote, not a table — a contrast with unmetered competitors who bundle the port into the price. Contracts are month-to-month for all servers, which is friendlier than the annual commitments common in this market, though longer terms and setup-fee waivers are negotiation points in practice.

What sits outside the base price matters too. The free Standard DDoS IP Protection is included on every dedicated server, but Acronis backup, firewalls, VPN, SSL, and Advanced DDoS protection are additional security options — in other words, the resilience add-ons most production buyers want are line items. For comparison work on traffic allowances and entry hardware in this class, our benchmarks and the dedicated-servers category put the numbers side by side.

Performance & infrastructure

The hardware story is mainstream enterprise: single, dual, or quad processor configurations on Intel Scalable and AMD EPYC parts, NVMe SSD options, GPU cards available for acceleration, and dedicated racks built to specification with your choice of switches, firewalls, and load balancers. Servers sit in ISO-certified facilities with at least a Tier III classification, redundant power and cooling paths, and generator backup. Floating IPs let customers build high-availability pairs, and private networking links colocation racks, dedicated servers, and private cloud without touching the public internet.

The network is the strongest pillar. Twenty-five Internet Exchange peering points and 36 points of presence on the dedicated-server pages (the homepage counts 43 PoPs and 29 IXs — the numbers shift as the network grows), 10GE and 100GE uplinks, private peering plus transit arrangements, and that 99.999% core uptime figure backed by SLA. IPv6 is genuinely first-class: Leaseweb assigns a /112 range — 65,536 IPv6 addresses — to every dedicated server free of charge, with a /64 netmask, and publishes the assignment policy in its knowledge base. Few hosts outside the network-specialist tier are this generous.

Operations run through the customer portal and API: reboots, OS reloads, rescue modes, IP management, null routes for attack traffic, private network configuration, and traffic and bandwidth measurements. A free monitoring add-on covers dedicated customers in the Netherlands, Germany, UK, and US. The support model is 24/7 on-site technical support by phone, email, or portal chat, backed by a large knowledge base — the standard enterprise arrangement, with response expectations varying by contract.

Security and compliance posture is broad: ISO 27001, SOC 1 and SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NEN 7510, CISPE, GAIA-X, and EU-US Data Privacy Framework participation. For regulated workloads in healthcare or finance, that certification list shortens procurement conversations considerably.

Where it falls short

The entry catalogue shows its age. A Xeon E3-1230v2 is 2012-era silicon, and while it is cheap per box, the price-performance against current-generation budget hosts is weak — you are paying for the network and the operations, not the chip. If raw compute per euro is the objective, European rivals will beat these entry configurations outright, and Leaseweb's own configurator prices for modern builds are considerably higher.

The bandwidth economics need modeling before you sign. Thirty TB of included traffic is generous at the entry tier, but the port-and-traffic configurator means high-throughput setups get expensive fast, and the unmetered 10 Gbps class sits at price points that require a sales conversation. CDN operators and media platforms should negotiate volume terms rather than buy from the catalogue.

Support quality is the recurring complaint in public reviews of this class of provider: 24/7 coverage exists, but enterprise responsiveness tends to track what you pay for. And the control panel, while functional and API-complete, is denser than the modern developer-focused panels — less beginner-friendly, as our listing notes, with legacy patterns from the portal's long evolution.

Finally, the product surface is wide but not uniformly deep. Backup is Acronis (paid), managed options are limited on the dedicated line, and the same brand spans shared heritage products from a decade of acquisitions, so experiences vary by region and product.

Who should pick this

We would pick Leaseweb when network quality, peering reach, and delivery footprint dominate the decision: high-bandwidth applications, CDN and media delivery, gaming infrastructure, multi-continent deployments that want one provider from Montreal to Sydney, and regulated workloads that value the certification set. The month-to-month contracts and 30 TB allowances make it a practical home for steady production traffic with predictable billing.

We would not pick it for budget-first compute, for tiny projects where the entry hardware's age hurts, or for teams that want a modern, minimal control experience and managed operations out of the box. In those cases the price-performance leaders in our dedicated-servers category are a better fit. For the classic "one provider, global traffic, serious network" requirement, Leaseweb remains a sound, unglamorous choice — and in infrastructure, unglamorous is often the compliment.

Key takeaways

• Founded 1997 in Amsterdam; 80,000+ servers, 25 data centers across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia
• Network is the draw: 2,000+ ISPs peered, 29 IX points, 43 PoPs, 10+ Tbps capacity, 99.999% core uptime guarantee
• Entry dedicated servers from about €60.13/mo excluding VAT (Xeon E3-1230v2, 32 GB, 2×2 TB SATA) with 30 TB traffic included
• Free standard DDoS IP Protection on every dedicated server (volumetric up to 5 Gbps); backups and Advanced DDoS are paid add-ons
• IPv6 is generous: a /112 (65,536 addresses) per dedicated server, free, with published assignment policy
• Month-to-month contracts and 24/7 support; entry hardware is dated and high-bandwidth configs need a quote

Sources

• https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/dedicated-servers
• https://www.leaseweb.com/platform/data-centers
• https://leaseweb.com/
• https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cyber-security/ddos-ip-protection
• https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/ips/network-ipv6-address-assignment-and-usage-guidelines-adding-an-ipv6-address-to-your-server
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeaseWeb
• https://x-zoneservers.com/compare/x-zoneservers-vs-leaseweb
• https://getdeploying.com/civo-vs-leaseweb
• https://www.leaseweb.com/en/press/releases/leaseweb-global-celebrates-25-years-innovation-hosting-and-cloud-services