As your business evolves, your hosting needs may also change. It’s important to choose a hosting solution that works best for your budget and technical requirements.
We offer products that support both startups and growing enterprises: xneelo Cloud and Self-Managed Dedicated Servers.
In this article, we compare the differences to help you decide which product is best suited for your business.
Choosing a solution
Both xneelo’s Cloud and Self-Managed Dedicated Servers offer robust hosting solutions. The choice that’s right for you depends on your specific workload, technical requirements, and the level of flexibility or control you require.
At a glance:
- High-performance virtual infrastructure with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing
- Deploy your own resources rapidly, and scale whenever you need
- Aimed at technical users with experience in server management
- Suits dynamic and evolving environments
Self-Managed Dedicated Servers
- Suits dedicated, self-managed hosting environments
- High-performance dedicated bare-metal servers at a fixed monthly price
- Offers customisable hardware, software and networking options with full administrator/root access
- Aimed at technical users with experience in server management
What is xneelo Cloud?
Xneelo Cloud lets you build and manage your own cloud environments using virtual infrastructure, with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing. You can create cloud resources on demand, including instances (virtual servers), block storage volumes, networks and routers.
All of this is available via a user-friendly dashboard, with resources ready to use within minutes.
Xneelo Cloud runs on a shared cloud platform in our secure data centre. Virtual resources are deployed automatically to high-performance hardware, set up for redundancy.
Visit our website to get started with xneelo Cloud
What are Self-Managed Dedicated Servers?
Dedicated Servers are physical servers leased to you at a fixed monthly cost.
You can customise the hardware, software and network resources to match your specific requirements and performance needs.
Once the server is provisioned, you have full administrator/root access to manage the environment yourself.
Dedicated Servers run on enterprise-grade hardware in our secure, fully redundant data centre. Each server is exclusively allocated to you, with dedicated compute and storage resources.
Visit our website to get started with Self-Managed Dedicated Servers
Use cases
Many workloads will run just as well on either xneelo Cloud or a Self-Managed Dedicated Server. There’s no single “right” choice; it all depends on what you’re hosting.
Understanding your use case is key to choosing the right solution.
Xneelo Cloud is well-suited for:
- Fluctuating or unpredictable workloads
- Startups, testing environments, or businesses with seasonal fluctuations
- Distributed applications, containerised apps, microservices, and cloud-native architectures
- Rapid deployment and scaling environments quickly
- Flexible solutions and general-purpose hosting
Self-Managed Dedicated Servers are well-suited for:
- Predictable, long-running workloads
- Businesses with stable performance requirements
- Hardware isolation and compliance needs, ideal for security-sensitive or performance-critical projects
- Self-managed environments where a high degree of customisation and control is required.
Pricing
Pricing structures for xneelo Cloud and Self-Managed Dedicated Servers are quite different. Here’s how they compare:
xneelo Cloud: pay-as-you-go pricing
You only pay for the cloud resources you’ve created and for the duration they exist:
- Cloud resources are charged per hour
- This offers flexible pricing with no long-term commitments
- Your monthly cloud costs change based on usage, so your monthly bill may vary
For more information, please view the xneelo Cloud pricing.
Self-Managed Dedicated Servers: fixed monthly price
You pay a fixed monthly fee based on the server and customisations you choose:
- Pricing depends on your hardware and software customisations
- You pay for the full month, regardless of usage
- With a fixed pricing model, your cost remain predictable
For more information, please view our Self-Managed Dedicated Server pricing.
Scalability
Scalability is all about how easily you can grow and scale your hosting setup as your business needs change. Xneelo Cloud and Self-Managed Dedicated Servers offer different approaches to scaling.
Xneelo Cloud:
- Create, resize, or delete cloud resources, on demand
- Resources are provisioned in minutes, with no downtime
- Allows for rapid scalability of your virtual infrastructure
Dedicated Servers:
- Offers customisable hardware and software
- You can order upgrades or add-ons on request
- Some lead time and downtime is required for hardware installation
Responsibility
Both xneelo Cloud and Dedicated Servers are self-managed products. They are designed for technical users who are comfortable managing their own server environments. As a result, xneelo’s support is limited to infrastructure-level issues. Find out more about support for xneelo Cloud.
The table below outlines which areas are managed by xneelo, and which are your responsibility as our customer:
| Applications | Both products: You are responsible for your websites, content and application data Xneelo has no responsibility over the software you run | |
| Backups | Both products: You are responsible for implementing and managing backups Xneelo does not create or store backups for you | |
| Provisioning | xneelo Cloud: You provision your own resources via the cloud dashboard Dedicated Servers: Xneelo provisions your physical server and add-ons after order confirmation | |
| Administration | xneelo Cloud: You are responsible for managing the operating system, updates, patching, and installing software You choose or upload images at instance creation Dedicated Servers: You are responsible for managing the operating system, updates, patching, and installing software Xneelo installs your selected operating system during setup | |
| Security | Both products: You are responsible for software-level security: firewall rules, access control, and data encryption Xneelo manages physical, platform, and network security | |
| Monitoring | xneelo Cloud: You monitor your virtual servers, services, and logs Xneelo monitors platform-level availability and infrastructure performance Dedicated Servers: You monitor your server, services, and logs Xneelo monitors physical hardware health | |
| Network | Both products: You have no responsibility over the physical network infrastructure Xneelo manages the network performance and availability | |
| Hardware | Both products: You have no responsibility over the physical hardware Xneelo manages the underlying physical infrastructure | |
| Data Centre | Both products: Xneelo manages the security and power redundancy in our local Data Centre | |
Still not sure?
Here’s a quick way to help you decide:
- Need quick deployment and scalability? Comfortable managing your own environment? Want flexible pay-as-you-go pricing? Choose xneelo Cloud.
- Want complete control and customisation? Have the technical skills to manage your own server? Want predictable monthly pricing? Choose a Self-Managed Dedicated Server.
If you have any questions, our team is here to help you make the right choice for your needs.
