QuickPacket

What QuickPacket actually is

QuickPacket is a small, privately owned American hosting company that sells exactly two things: self-managed bare-metal dedicated servers and colocation. The company states it was founded in June 2003, is privately owned and operated with no long-term debt, and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with a team of roughly two to ten people. It operates three datacenter locations — Ashburn, Virginia (its flagship), Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois — and describes itself, disarmingly, as a company with "the heart of a small business, and the staffing of a large one."

We want to be clear about what is on offer today, because our own database row got this wrong. That row advertised KVM VPS plans in Phoenix and Los Angeles starting at $3.50/month, with hourly billing and Windows options. We found none of that on the live site. The order store lists dedicated servers (Ashburn inventory) and colocation; cloud hosting is displayed as "Coming Soon"; the Terms of Service still mention virtual private servers among covered services, and the company's LinkedIn profile lists Linux KVM VPS among its products, but no VPS category exists in the current catalog. Phoenix does not appear anywhere in the current datacenter lineup. Until a cloud product materializes, treat QuickPacket as a dedicated-server and colo shop — corrections are filed against the old row.

That framing matters for who lands here. QuickPacket is not chasing the hourly-billing cloud crowd. It is the kind of provider that has been selling dual-Xeon boxes with IPMI since the LowEndBox era, owns its own hardware rather than reselling, and answers support tickets with people who know the network. Two decades of continuous operation is a real signal in this industry, where hosts of this size disappear quietly; a 2015-era user review on a hosting forum still circulates, and the testimonials the company publishes are drawn from WebHostingTalk and Serchen rather than anonymous quote walls.

Pricing: what you really pay

The catalog is public in the billing store, which is more transparency than many hosts of this size offer. As of our October 2026 look at the Ashburn range: an Intel Xeon E3-1230v3 with 4 cores at 3.3 GHz, 16 GB RAM, a 1 TB hard drive or 240 GB SSD, 50 TB of bandwidth on a 1 Gbps port, one IP address with reverse DNS, self-managed with 24x7 on-site support, starts at $49.99/month. Above it: the E3-1270v3 at $54.99, the E3-1270v6 (32 GB RAM) at $69.99, a 12-core Xeon E5-2680v3 with 64 GB at $89.99, a dual E5-2640v3 at $99.99, the 8-core Xeon E-2288G at $119.99, a dual E5-2680v3 at $129.99, a dual E5-2690v4 at $139.99, an AMD Ryzen 9 7900 at $199.99, a dual E5-2697Av4 with 128 GB RAM on a 10 Gbps port at $199.99, and the range tops out at an AMD EPYC 7443p (24 cores) and a Ryzen 9 9950X at $299.99/month each. Every configuration includes 50 TB of transfer; most come on 1 Gbps ports, with 10 Gbps on at least one dual-Xeon tier.

Two things stand out in that list. First, the bandwidth: 50 TB included even at the entry price is generous, and it is uniform across the range rather than drip-fed upward — good for download-heavy workloads. Second, the price-to-hardware ratio is honest but reflects the fleet's age. A Haswell-era E3-1230v3 at $49.99 with 16 GB and a choice of drive is fair, not extraordinary; the modern parts (Ryzen 9 7900, 9950X, EPYC 7443p) sit at the price points you would expect and are the configurations worth building on. Stock is published per configuration — at review time the E3-1230v3 showed 13 available and the E3-1270v6 showed 48, while several newer configs (Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 9 9950X, dual E5-2690v4, dual E5-2697Av4, EPYC 7443p) showed zero. Buying here means buying what is racked today.

Billing is monthly in the general case, with some services on longer terms per the Terms of Service. There is no hourly billing, no free tier, and no trial we could find. Colocation pricing is not published at all — the colocation link leads to a sales ticket, so expect a quote process. DDoS protection is not bundled: the Terms of Service describe purchasing DDoS protection or filtering per single VPS or dedicated server, which tells us mitigation is a paid add-on scoped to one machine.

Performance & infrastructure

We have not benchmarked QuickPacket hardware ourselves — our /benchmarks covers the big cloud providers we test on a schedule — so this section is what the provider publishes and what its service terms commit to, not measured numbers. What we can say: this is true bare metal. Servers are dedicated boxes you control down to the operating system, the company states it owns all of its hardware rather than reselling, and historical offers detail IPMI/KVM-over-IP access on the machines. Entry configurations pair 4 cores and 16 GB RAM with either a 1 TB hard drive or 240 GB SSD, and storage upgrades follow from there.

The network promise is unusually blunt for a host this size: QuickPacket's Terms of Service guarantee 100% uptime on its network, with service credits available to customers who file a claim with supporting evidence within five days of the outage. There is also an installation guarantee — ordered products are installed within fourteen business days of payment and approval, with a 21-day claim window — and a hardware replacement guarantee. Read the claim windows carefully: they are tight, and a credit missed is a credit forfeited. That is the trade for a guarantee with no percentage fudge factor.

Support scope is the other half of the story. Servers are explicitly unmanaged: the Terms of Service state that support covers network, power and hardware issues only. There is 24x7 on-site support for the datacenter layer, and the published testimonials praise response speed ("fast support," "always helping me"), but nobody is patching your kernel. Hardware settings — BIOS, BMC/IPMI, RAID — may not be changed without written permission, and SSD wear from write-intensive workloads beyond manufacturer ratings is billed back to the customer. These are the terms of a host that sells raw capacity at thin margins and expects competence on the other end.

Where it falls short

• Unmanaged only. No OS administration, no control panel, no hand-holding — network, power and hardware are the support boundary.
• Aging entry hardware: the $49.99 configuration is built on a 2013-era Xeon E3 v3, and several modern configurations were out of stock when we checked.
• Small team, single facility per city. Support is personal and reportedly fast, but key-person risk and limited failover geography come with that.
• Thin documentation. There is a knowledgebase, but nothing resembling the docs a larger provider maintains; you will be reading the ToS to answer questions.
• Tight SLA claim windows (five days for network credits, 21 for install) and strict rules on hardware access and SSD wear.
• No VPS or cloud product yet ("Coming Soon"), no GPU configurations, no published colocation pricing, and no presence outside the US.

Who should pick this

Our pick for technically self-sufficient operators who want dedicated hardware, fat included bandwidth and a direct relationship with the people running the network — game server hosts, download- and streaming-heavy services, VPN or proxy operators whose traffic profile fits the 50 TB envelope, and agencies that want one metal box per client instead of a cloud bill. The Ashburn flagship is the natural choice for US East Coast audiences, Los Angeles serves the West Coast, and Chicago covers the Midwest; that is the entire map, and for those three regions the network economics are reasonable.

Colocation customers with a few machines and a preference for a small, debt-free operator should also get a quote — the same terms apply, and being a meaningful customer at a company this size has its advantages. We would send elsewhere anyone who wants managed services, hourly burst capacity, European or Asian locations, GPU compute, or the comfort of a large provider's documentation and ecosystem. In those cases the hyperscalers or a larger bare-metal provider will serve you better, and the /benchmarks pages give you our tested numbers for the compute side.

Key takeaways

• Bare metal and colocation only: founded June 2003, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, with datacenters in Ashburn (flagship), Los Angeles and Chicago.
• Published catalog pricing runs $49.99/month (Xeon E3-1230v3, 4 cores, 16 GB, 1 TB HDD or 240 GB SSD, 50 TB on 1 Gbps) to $299.99/month (EPYC 7443p or Ryzen 9 9950X).
• Every listed server includes 50 TB of transfer; some tiers get 10 Gbps ports. DDoS mitigation is a paid per-machine add-on.
• The Terms of Service guarantee 100% network uptime with credits (5-day claim window), installation within 14 business days, and hardware replacement — but all servers are unmanaged.
• Stock is live and finite: several modern configurations showed zero availability at review time, and colocation pricing requires a sales quote.
• The VPS product our database row described (Phoenix, $3.50/month, hourly billing) does not exist on the current site; cloud hosting is listed as "Coming Soon."

Sources

• https://quickpacket.com/index.php
• https://quickpacket.com/billing/cart.php
• https://quickpacket.com/termsofservice.php
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/quickpacket
• https://www.serchen.com/company/quickpacket/#53929
• https://vpsboard.com/tags/quickpacket