phoenixNAP vs DataPacket
A detailed comparison to help you choose between phoenixNAP and DataPacket.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
phoenixNAP
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3.9/5
DataPacket
0 reviews
Both phoenixNAP and DataPacket are equally rated at 3.9/5. phoenixNAP offers on-demand bare metal servers, colocation, and IaaS in Phoenix, Ashburn, Atlanta, Amsterdam, and Singapore. HIPAA-compliant infrastructure available. From $100/month. DataPacket offers dedicated servers and bare metal across 35 datacenter locations globally. Custom hardware, BGP sessions available, and 100Gbps uplinks on premium servers.
phoenixNAP Bare metal cloud in North America and Europe | DataPacket Global bare metal with 67 datacenter locations | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 3.9 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $38.81/mo✓ | From $240/mo |
| Best for | Teams that need dedicated-server performance with cloud-style hourly provisioning — CI/CD fleets, game servers, database nodes, and Kubernetes on bare metal in the US, EU, or Singapore | Network-intensive operators — CDNs, video and streaming platforms, VPN providers, game-traffic and mirror hosts — whose costs are driven by bandwidth volume |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 4 vCPU | — |
| RAM | 16 GB | — |
| Storage | 480 GB | — |
| Bandwidth | 15 TB/mo | — |
| SLA uptime | 100% | — |
| Data-center count | 6 | 67✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €9.70 | — |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €2.43 | — |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Phoenix, Ashburn, Chicago, Seattle, Amsterdam, Singapore | — |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapi access | nvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter |
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phoenixNAP
Pros
- + Dedicated physical hardware provisioned in about a minute via API, CLI, or Terraform
- + Transparent pricing: hourly billing, published per-instance rates, $0.01/GB bandwidth overage
- + 15 TB bandwidth and 20 Gbps DDoS protection included; 20/50 Gbps bonded network ports
- + Network depth: BYO IPv4/IPv6, BGP local and global, Anycast, Netris VPC-like networking
- + Concrete SLAs — 100% power/network target with service credits, defined hardware replacement terms
Cons
- - Only six BMC deployment locations despite a larger company network footprint
- - Entry s0.d1.small runs a Haswell-era Xeon E3-1240v3; modern instances cost several times more
- - No snapshots, no included backups, no resizing — scaling means redeploying
- - Public IPv4 allocations billed separately and reserved instances keep billing after deletion
DataPacket
Pros
- + Unshared 50-200 Gbps uplinks with unmetered traffic and no egress billing
- + 67 data centre locations on six continents on a private 330+ Tbps backbone
- + Current-generation AMD EPYC + NVMe + DDR5 hardware, in-stock machines deploy in about a day
- + DDoS Shield included, one IPv4 free per server, free /64 IPv6 blocks
- + Network-heavy reference customers (Discord, bunny.net, Nodecraft, Livepeer) validate traffic-spike resilience
Cons
- - $240/mo entry price excludes small and hobby workloads entirely
- - No cloud platform services: no snapshots, managed databases or autoscaling groups
- - Custom hardware, BYO IP and top uplink tiers are quote-only through sales
- - Thin third-party documentation and community content outside the company's own support
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