Database Mart

What Database Mart actually is

Database Mart is a US hosting company that has been running servers since 2005 — two decades without a rebrand or a venture round, which in this industry counts as a track record. It sells what you would expect from a mid-size American host: Windows and Linux VPS, dedicated and bare metal servers, and — increasingly, under the separate GPU Mart brand launched in 2021 — NVIDIA GPU servers and GPU VPS for AI inference, rendering and training. The company is headquartered in League City, Texas, and runs its own facilities in Dallas and Kansas City rather than reselling hyperscale capacity.

The pitch is straightforward: enterprise-ish hardware at small-business prices, with Windows Server licensing bundled rather than billed as a surprise line item. That last point matters more than it sounds. Most providers charge $16 to $52 per month on top of a Windows VPS for the licence; Database Mart includes genuine Windows Server (and Windows 10/11 evaluation images for desktop-style VPS) in the plan price. If you are running RDP desktops, MSSQL boxes or trading terminals, the licence math alone can decide the comparison. See how the entry plans stack up against the wider market in /category/dedicated-servers.

Pricing: what you really pay

Published plans are real and current, not "contact us". The Linux VPS line starts at $2.99 per month for an Express L1 slice — 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe, 1 TB of transfer — and steps through $5.99 for 2 vCPU/4 GB/80 GB, $11.99 for 4 vCPU/8 GB/160 GB, and $22.99 for 6 vCPU/16 GB/300 GB. The Windows equivalents cost a little more for the same shape of plan (Express W1 at $5.99 with 2 GB RAM and a 60 GB SSD), and the popular Windows Desktop VPS line lists around $6.99 for its entry tier with periodic promotions at $2.99. Bare metal starts at $49 per month for a 32 GB machine with fully dedicated hardware and no setup fee.

The GPU line is where Database Mart gets interesting. GPU VPS start at $85 per month for an RTX 5060 slice (8 GB VRAM, 16 cores, 28 GB system RAM, 240 GB SSD), and the flat-rate dedicated GPU offers include an RTX A4000 machine at $179 per month with unmetered bandwidth and no egress fees. The company makes a point of attacking hourly GPU billing: at 730 hours per month, an on-demand A4000 elsewhere can run several hundred dollars, and we find the flat-rate framing genuinely useful for always-on inference workloads. Selected GPU SKUs are also sold hourly (roughly $0.25 to $0.76 per hour across the published range), so the pricing model is mixed rather than uniform — read the cart page for the model that applies to your machine.

Two caveats on price. Promotions are aggressive and recurring ("for life" promo pricing appears frequently), so the headline number you see depends heavily on when you look; the standard rates above are the non-promo figures where we could separate them. And most of the third-party write-ups about this company carry affiliate links, which is why every figure we quote here is one we could cross-check across more than one source.

Performance & infrastructure

Database Mart runs Intel Xeon hardware in carrier-neutral facilities in Dallas and Kansas City, with NVMe storage on the Linux VPS line and SSD on the Windows lines. Port speeds in published plans run from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps depending on tier, with unmetered transfer on the GPU line and explicit terabyte caps (1 TB to 15 TB) on VPS tiers — clear, if unusual, granularity. The company's SLA, published in 2026, promises 99.9% network and platform uptime with service credits worth three times the downtime beyond that allowance, which is a more generous credit formula than the usual pro-rated refund.

On the dedicated side, entry machines at $49 per month bundle 32 GB RAM and dedicated hardware with IPMI/root control, and the top GPU configurations run multi-card setups up to H100 80 GB class hardware with 256 GB RAM and large storage bundles. The GPU VPS line uses dedicated GPU passthrough — no time-sliced VRAM, according to the provider — which is the right architecture for anything memory-hungry. Management is semi-automated: free SolidCP installation for Windows VPS, free cPanel installation for Linux (you buy the cPanel licence), automated backups on a per-plan schedule, and 24/7 human support through chat and email. Windows licences being included is the single most defensible spec advantage here.

We have no hands-on benchmark data for Database Mart — our /benchmarks programme covers other providers — so treat all performance statements above as published specifications, not measured results.

Support deserves one more word because it is the part of a budget host that decides whether the savings are real. Database Mart states 24/7/365 human support via live chat and email, and third-party accounts describe ticket-based help with setup tasks — SolidCP installation, cPanel installation, OS reinstallation — rather than application-level consulting. That is the right expectation to set: you are buying infrastructure with a helpful provider attached, not a managed platform where someone tunes your database for you. For a small team without a sysadmin, the difference between "helps you boot the server" and "helps you run the server" is the whole ballgame, so plan accordingly.

Where it falls short

Two US data centres means latency outside North America is whatever the internet gives you; there is no European or Asia-Pacific presence to choose from. If your audience is in Frankfurt or Singapore, this is the wrong shape of provider. Second, the marketing is noisy. Claims of hundreds of thousands of customers and servers delivered appear in the company's promotional ecosystem without independent verification, and the comparison tables on its own site compare against cherry-picked configurations. We do not think the company is dishonest — the plans are real and the pricing holds up — but the volume of affiliate content around it makes due diligence harder than it should be.

Third, entry-tier specs are thin by 2026 standards: 1 vCPU and 2 GB RAM is a testing box, not a production server, and the $2.99 figure is a promo-adjacent price that has appeared as a sale rate as well as a list rate. Windows Desktop VPS plans run evaluation Windows images, which suits lab and RDP use but is not a path to licensed production Windows. Support is human and around the clock, but this is not a managed host in the enterprise sense — you get help with the platform, not with your application stack. Finally, a 24-hour free trial is offered on many services by request, which is helpful, but there is no free tier and no public status page we could find.

The competitive set is worth naming. Against Vultr, Hetzner and OVH, Database Mart wins on bundled Windows licensing and flat-rate GPU pricing and loses on locations, brand assurance and ecosystem depth. Against RunPod, Lambda and Paperspace, it wins on predictable billing for steady-state inference and loses on region count and burst flexibility. Against AWS Lightsail and DigitalOcean, it wins on raw spec-per-dollar for US Windows workloads and loses on everything that comes with a hyperscaler's platform. Where those comparisons land depends entirely on your workload, which is exactly why the 24-hour trial exists.

Who should pick this

Our pick for three specific buyers. First, Windows workloads on a budget: RDP desktops, MSSQL, .NET apps and Forex trading terminals where bundled Windows licensing and unmetered transfer beat the hyperscalers on total cost. Second, always-on GPU workloads — inference endpoints, rendering farms, small-model fine-tuning — where flat monthly rates with no egress fees are easier to budget than hourly on-demand pricing. Third, US-focused small businesses that want dedicated hardware without a colocation contract, and are comfortable with a smaller provider in exchange for prices like $49 per month for a whole machine.

We would skip it for latency-sensitive audiences outside North America, for teams that need SLA-backed multi-region redundancy, and for anyone who wants deep managed services. If that is you, larger providers in /category/dedicated-servers or the managed end of /category/vps-providers will fit better. For everyone else, Database Mart is a credible budget US host, and the honest way to evaluate it is to take the 24-hour trial, run your own workload, and judge the hardware directly.

Key takeaways

• Database Mart LLC has run US hosting since 2005 from League City, Texas, with facilities in Dallas and Kansas City only.
• Real published pricing: Linux VPS from $2.99/mo (1 vCPU/2 GB/40 GB NVMe), Windows VPS from $5.99/mo, bare metal from $49/mo, GPU VPS from $85/mo, flat-rate RTX A4000 at $179/mo.
• Windows Server licensing is included in plan prices — the clearest cost advantage over hosts that add $16-$52/mo for it.
• GPU line (GPU Mart, launched 2021) mixes flat monthly rates with hourly billing on selected SKUs and charges no egress fees.
• 99.9% uptime SLA with 3x downtime credits; automated backups and 24/7 human support included.
• No presence outside the US and heavy affiliate marketing around the brand — verify prices on the vendor's own cart before committing.

Sources

• https://databasemart.com/affordable
• https://vpsrated.com/provider/vps-mart
• https://vpsrated.com/provider/gpu-mart
• https://hostingrated.top/provider/gpu-mart
• https://gpucloudlist.com/en/providers/gpu-mart
• https://github.com/exr7672/DatabaseMart