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Bare Metal for Adtech

Bare metal to power high-throughput DSP, SSP, and ad exchange workloads.

Get high-performance, reliable dedicated servers with premium networking, predictable pricing, and no egress fees.

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Overview

Make Infrastructure Your Real-Time Edge

When milliseconds matter, Rackdog bare metal infrastructure is your competitive edge. Deploy your dedicated server in minutes and run your adtech workloads with dependable performance, predictable pricing, and easy management.

Built Around Your Workload

Choose pre-configured servers or customize hardware to match your needs.

Consistent Low Latency

Dedicated hardware and optimized networking reduce jitter that kills win rates.

Performance That Holds Up Under Load

Single-tenant resources keep critical paths fast, even during peak traffic.

Costs You Can Control

Flat pricing means traffic can grow without egress fees or surprise charges.

Easy to Run at Scale

Deploy in minutes. Manage with ease. Get expert support when you need it.

The Problem

Why AdTech Workloads Push Cloud Infrastructure to Its Limits

Milliseconds are everything for platforms powering the digital advertising ecosystem. Virtualized cloud environments can create jitter through hypervisor overhead and the “noisy neighbor” effect created by multiple virtual machines on a server vying for resources. These fluctuations can translate into missed bid deadlines, lower fill rates, and wasted ad spend.

The inherent limits of the cloud can’t be optimized away. Bidders on demand-side platforms (DSPs) and supply-side platforms (SSPs) need deterministic performance and stable response times that only dedicated, bare metal infrastructure can provide.

The Foundation

Bare Metal Engineered Around Your Adtech Workloads

Rackdog bare metal servers give adtech teams dedicated compute resources for latency-sensitive, high-throughput workloads like real-time bidding, bidstream processing, and ad delivery.

Dedicated Compute Power

We provide single-tenant bare metal servers provisioned without a virtualization layer by default.

Your CPU, memory, and NVMe storage are reserved for your deployment, supporting high-QPS workloads without cross-tenant resource contention.

SINGLE-TENANT INFRASTRUCTURE

Predictable Low-Latency

In real-time bidding, tail latency creates missed bid windows.

Bare metal eliminates the sources of variability that come with the cloud (noisy neighbors, virtualization overhead), making latency more deterministic and more consistent.


Consistent performance

The Network

Tier 1 Connectivity, Zero Egress Fees

Rackdog bare metal servers enable adtech teams to move massive traffic efficiently between exchanges, partners, users, and regions, without turning data transfer into a cost problem.

12+

Global locations

Premium Global Network

Rackdog's global backbone is powered by Tier 1 carriers and extensive Internet Exchange peering. Deploy from 12+ data center locations to place infrastructure closer to key exchanges and demand partners.

10G

400G

Port speeds

High-Bandwidth Ports

Bidstream traffic, impression data, and event logs create a steady flow of high-volume traffic. Dedicated high-bandwidth 10Gbps ports come standard, with upgrades available up to 100G or 400G.

$0

Outbound data transfer

No Egress Fees

Many infrastructure providers make costs difficult to forecast by metering data transfer. Rackdog includes unmetered bandwidth in the price of your server.

12+

Global locations

10Gbps ports standard

Rackdog's global backbone is powered by Tier 1 carriers and extensive Internet Exchange peering. Deploy from 12+ data center locations to place infrastructure closer to key exchanges and demand partners.

10G

400G

Port speeds

High-Bandwidth Ports

Bidstream traffic, impression data, and event logs create a steady flow of high-volume traffic. Dedicated high-bandwidth ports come standard, with upgrades available up to 100G or 400G.

$0

Outbound data transfer

No Egress Fees

Many cloud providers make outbound traffic difficult to forecast by billing separately for data transfer. Rackdog includes unmetered outbound bandwidth in the price of your server.

Features

Bare Metal Performance, Cloud-Native Workflows

Bare metal gives adtech teams more control over their infrastructure, but that shouldn’t mean more friction. Rackdog combines dedicated physical servers with remote management, fast provisioning, and compatibility with your existing stack, for an experience that’s as easy as the cloud.

  • Bare Metal as a Service

    Rackdog handles the physical infrastructure layer, so your team can focus on deploying and scaling bidder, exchange, and data-processing workloads.

  • Cloud-Like Provisioning

    Deploy fully configured servers in minutes with the operating system or custom image your workloads require.

  • Infrastructure as Code

    Manage infrastructure through Rackdog’s dashboard, API, and Terraform provider, so dedicated servers can fit into the workflows your team already uses.

Bare Metal Made Simple for Adtech Platforms

Bare Metal Made Simple for Adtech Platforms

Deploy in Minutes

Provision fully configured bare metal in under 6 minutes with your OS or image and full root access.

Screenshot of the Rackdog dahsboard dedicated server deployment

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Choose Your Server

Graphic representing the choice of bare metal server with custom configuration

Choose a pre-configured server or work with our team on a custom build based on bidding workloads, data volume, and regional demand.

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Run With Predictable Billing

Graphic representing predictable pricing of Rackdog bare metal servers

Handle steady RTB traffic and peak events with flat pricing and high-bandwidth ports. No egress fees or surprise overages.

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Monitor and Manage With Ease

Manage deployments across regions in a simple control panel.

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Scale Without Friction

Screenshot of Rackdog dashboard depicting effortless scaling

Add regions or increase capacity as demand grows without re-architecting your stack or changing your operating model.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do you offer onboarding or migration assistance?

We will help make onboarding and migration as smooth as possible. We don't believe in lock-ins so same goes for if you decide you want to take your data elsewhere

How long does it take for a server to be up and running?

Since our servers are bare metal it can take on average 5 minutes for OS to be installed and ready to go.

Is bandwidth really free?

Yes! We don't believe in accidental overages or sneaky egress fees that lock you in. All of our plans are unlimited traffic.

Can I bring my own IP space (BYOIP)?

We can announce your IPv4/IPv6 space for you and route it to your servers with us.

How does billing work?

We offer monthly billing with the option for longer billing cycles. We accept credit card and bank transfers. The price you see listed is the price you can expect to see on your bill guaranteed!

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