Scale
SCALE
More power to support your ambitions
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Up to 256 cores per server
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4 x 25 Gbps network infrastructure
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DDR5 true ECC RAM up to 256 GB
The solution for your heavy workloads
Computing power
Tailor-made for your intensive workloads, the Scale range of servers is perfect for your innovative and ambitious projects. Ranging from 16 to 256 cores, they are a major asset for all your processor-intensive workloads.
A high-performance network infrastructure
With its 4 x 25 Gbps interface, the network interface that our Scale servers use offers you high availability (99.99% SLA) and minimal latency.
Private network and OLA
Your Scale server has a private network (vRack) of 50 Gbps guaranteed by default. With the OVHcloud Link Aggregation feature, you can increase this bandwidth up to 50 Gbps, giving you the ability to manage high volumes of data transfers between your solutions.
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Features of a Scale server
Hardware
Additional storage space
With file storage solutions fully managed by OVHcloud, you get centralised, high-performance storage and backup spaces for your data.
Additional backup storage
Each of our dedicated servers has a 500 GB backup space for storing your data and configuration files. This space can be increased to 1, 5 or 10 TB for larger volumes.
Enterprise File Storage
Enterprise File Storage is a NetApp ONTAP Select software-defined storage solution managed by OVHcloud, linking your critical OVHcloud services and business applications to a high-performance file storage service.
HA-NAS
A low-cost OpenZFS-based storage service, managed by OVHcloud, immediately available for Windows and/or Linux/UNIX applications that require a shared file system.
Veeam Enterprise Plus
Deploy your Veeam Backup & Replication platform, and use Enterprise Plus licences from OVHcloud to ensure backup, recovery, and replication for multiple strategic workloads—including VMware, Nutanix, Linux and Windows physical servers, or NAS storage.
Dual power supply (2xPSU)
Power supply is one of the key components guaranteeing an infrastructure’s availability. Depending on how critical your project is, a dual power supply is key to avoiding downtime. Service interruptions can prove costly in terms of both business and brand image.
Software
Operating systems
Take your pick from a wide selection of licences, including AlmaLinux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Rocky Linux and Ubuntu.
Administration interfaces
Simplify your server management and automate your daily tasks with Plesk or cPanel. With one of these control panels on your dedicated server, you get an intuitive and powerful web interface.
Virtualisation
Deploy virtual machines by installing a virtualisation system on your physical server—Microsoft Hyper-V Server or Promox VE.
Database
Configure your database server by deploying the Microsoft SQL Server database management system.
Network
Network interface
Our 2nd generation Scale servers are equipped with a four-port network interface of 25 Gbps each. This infrastructure is among the best in the market, and guarantees a stable, high-performance network. It ensures minimal latency and optimal performance, making it ideal for intensive workloads and data-intensive applications.
Guaranteed public bandwidth of 5 Gbps guaranteed and unlimited
Our servers in Europe, the United States and Canada all have a guaranteed bandwidth of 5 Gbps, with unlimited and free ingress and egress traffic. In the Asia-Pacific region, the default bandwidth is 1 Gbps, with a 25 TB monthly limit (included). Additional bandwidth and volume options are available on demand.
OVHcloud Link Aggregation
This feature maximises the availability of your dedicated servers. You can enable it on the OVHcloud Control Panel to group your public and private network links. This ensures service continuity, and a very high-bandwidth private network for your most critical applications and distributed systems.
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
Each server has a public IPv4 address and an IPv6 address range. As an option, you can rent additional IPv4 addresses for your dedicated server (up to 256 per machine).
Anti-DDoS protection
To guarantee maximum security for your infrastructures, our anti-DDoS system is included with all OVHcloud dedicated servers.
vRack private network
Your server is delivered with our private physical network—the vRack. This means you can create your own cluster, or include your server in an existing infrastructure. This network is totally isolated from the internet, and is included at no extra cost.
Load Balancer
The OVHcloud Load Balancer distributes the traffic load on the IP addresses for your services hosted in our datacentres. You will need to use this option if you want to distribute your traffic across several servers (e.g. for an e-commerce website). You can also use it to detect unavailable servers, and redirect traffic to one or more functioning servers.
OVHcloud Connect
With OVHcloud Connect, you can link your network to your infrastructure in our datacentres. This high-speed private link is completely isolated from the public network, and perfectly secure.
Additional, guaranteed public bandwidth
Our dedicated servers have a default public bandwidth. Depending on your project’s resource requirements, you can choose an additional guaranteed bandwidth option. This ensures constant throughput for your incoming and outgoing traffic.
Additional IPs
As part of our Additional IP solution, additional IPv4 addresses can be transferred between OVHcloud servers (as a failover feature). This means you can keep them if you change or migrate your machine, use them to switch traffic if a service goes down, or switch projects from a development environment to a production environment. These IP addresses can also be geolocated in 14 countries.
Bring Your Own IP
With the IP address bringing service (BYOIP) provided by OVHcloud, you can bring your own public IPv4 address ranges and use them as additional IP blocks.
It is a simple way to ensure that your company’s public connectivity is maintained. This is especially the case when you migrate some or all of your services to the cloud.
Observability
Carbon Calculator
With the Carbon Calculator, you can generate monthly reports on your server’s energy usage, and assess its carbon footprint at different levels of detail.
Network Security Dashboard
From your Control Panel, you can directly access an interface that gives you a clear view of your server’s traffic. You can also view the anti-DDoS included with your solution.
SLA
Monthly SLA
All of the servers in the Scale range have an SLA of 99,99%, guaranteeing you the best availability for your business applications.
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Support and documentation
We offer a range of documentation and online support to assist you in setting up and configuring your OVHcloud product.
Your questions answered
What should a Scale server be used for?
Scale servers are well-suited to complex organisations that require resource-intensive IT environments, and quick scalability. With this new dedicated server range, you can run resource-intensive and varied workloads.
What is a Scale server used for?
The Scale server, a high-performance computing server, is versatile and suitable for many applications. This range is particularly essential in resource-intensive sectors that rely heavily on reliability and processing capacity. Scale servers cater to companies that require unique, custom configurations to their meet their specific, individual needs. Whether it’s a high-traffic website, enterprise application, or large database, Scale servers ensure fast processing of these critical applications with reliability and performance. Moreover, Scale servers are capable of processing large amounts of data quickly, which is crucial for scientific research, financial analysis, engineering, and the building and running of AI and machine learning models. These capabilities make Scale servers an optimal choice for workloads and applications that demand high performance, reliability, and processing capacity.
Where would my data be hosted?
Scale servers are deployed in our datacentres across several continents. This means you can host your data in a datacentre to meet specific regulatory requirements, get improved performance, or minimise latency.
What is the vRack private network?
To secure transmissions between machines within an infrastructure, it is important to use a secure, private physical network. You can use our vRack private network to connect all of your servers, and spread your workloads within a distributed cluster.
Are Scale servers ISO 27001 certified?
Scale dedicated servers are ISO/IEC 27001 certified, meaning that strict data security processes are implemented.
What are the technical specifications of the Scale range?
The memory capacity of our Scale dedicated servers varies from 128 GB to 1 TB of DDR5 ECC, with a public bandwidth of between 1 and 10 Gbps and private bandwidth of 25 Gbps—both guaranteed. You can also maximise performance with the Load Balancer, anticipate activity peaks by adding bandwidth, and manage service and project availability with Additional IPs.
To browse the services included with our Scale servers, visit our dedicated page.
Which is the best server?
Your specific needs in terms of resources, performance, storage, and features will determine the best server for you. Depending on your plans, some dedicated server and web hosting plans may be more suitable than others.
Which dedicated server should I choose?
There are two factors to consider when choosing your server: your use case and your infrastructure. Your ideal Bare Metal server’s structure and composition will vary based on these factors. If you want to host a website, a single-processor server with high bandwidth is exactly what you need. If you’d like to host a SaaS solution, you’ll need a private network to connect the server to the database. Prioritise core density, storage capacity, and high Service Level Agreement (SLA) when choosing a server for projects involving large data sets.
Why choose a professional dedicated server?
Companies seeking one-off performance, enhanced security, and high customisation potential should consider going for a professional dedicated server. High-performance dedicated servers feature powerful cores, making them perfect for resource-intensive tasks. To ensure the success of your project, you can tailor your professional server—the common option—by selecting the desired CPUs, memory, bandwidth (private and public), storage, and GHz frequency.