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Vultr Bare Metal (Intel E3-1270) review, scored

Vultr Bare Metal: hourly single-tenant servers from $120, little included.

By the Tech Busy editorial team Fact-checked Updated

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Overall score
30th of 35 products in Web Hosting
Lower
Product · calculated from published specs and owner feedback
Social scoreOwner and public sentiment · calculated
Usability scoreFrom published features and owner comments · not a lab test

Usability score

Blended from the published feature set and owner comments on everyday use. Not hands-on testing.

Uptime guarantee
8
Bare Metal is not excluded from Vultr's 100% uptime SLA (only GPU instances are), and credits still need a ticket.
Price transparency
10
The E3-1270 Bare Metal server is listed at one hourly and monthly rate with no promotional first term.
Money-back terms
9
On-demand Bare Metal is charged hourly at $0.179, so cancelling stops the bill; Vultr's blanket no-refund rule removes one point.
Published infrastructure
2
The entry Bare Metal box lists SSD drives only; Vultr names no region list, stack, cache, CDN or backups for it.
Support access
3
Bare Metal customers reach Vultr only through its 24/7 ticket desk; no phone or chat channel is published.

Social score

The mean of the public owner-review pools we could find, adjusted for volume and recency.

Reddit
5.0
Brand-level · 3 reviews · reddit.com
Independent web and YouTube
5.0
Product · 1 reviews · g2.com
Marketplace reviews
2.0
Brand-level · 589 reviews · trustpilot.com

Sources checked Nov 11, 2026. How we review

Strengths and drawbacks

Strengths

  • Bare Metal is billed hourly, unusual for dedicated hardware
  • Bare Metal gives the full machine with no hypervisor
  • Bare Metal is covered by Vultr's 100% uptime credit table

Drawbacks

  • The entry Bare Metal CPU is an older Intel E3 chip
  • Bare Metal includes no management or backups
  • Bare Metal region availability is not listed on the plan

Specifications

Price$120.00 / month (Intel E3-1270, 4 cores/8 threads, 32 GB RAM, 2 x 240 GB SSD, 5 TB transfer; $0.179/hour on demand, 'starting from' $120 a month; flat list price.)
Price checkedNov 11, 2026 on www.vultr.com
Product lineDedicated server
Why this productVultr's single-tenant server line; 'vultr bare metal' draws 90 US searches a month (Semrush). Scored on the cheapest CPU configuration.

Claims we checked

ClaimWhat we found
Single-tenant hardwareVerified Vultr's pricing page states Bare Metal servers are always single-tenant, with no virtualization layer.
Source · checked Nov 11, 2026
Bare Metal billed hourlyVerified The Vultr price list shows the E3-1270 Bare Metal server at $0.179 per hour, or from $120 a month.
Source · checked Nov 11, 2026
Bare Metal covered by the 100% SLAFine print Vultr's SLA carves out only GPU instances, so Bare Metal is covered, but scheduled maintenance with 24 hours' notice is exempt.
Source · checked Nov 11, 2026

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