Bare Metal from €200/year • AS57050

Micro Dedicated Servers in Romania

Low-power, always-on bare metal designed for the jobs where a VPS feels flimsy and a full dedicated server is overkill. Intel Celeron N2807 or AMD G-T48E, 8 GB RAM, a 128 GB SSD on SATA adapter, and USB 3.0 / USB 2.0 ports ready for external HDDs or SSDs, ideal for cheap bulk backup storage.

Perfect for backup targets, VPN endpoints (WireGuard/OpenVPN), DNS resolvers (Pi-hole, AdGuard Home), home labs, Nextcloud, Git servers, Discord/Telegram bots, uptime monitors, and any always-on service that deserves its own dedicated hardware.

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Micro Server Plans

All prices exclude VAT. Annual billing. Setup fee €10. Both models include the Loyalty Gift badge, after 12 consecutive months you can keep the hardware.

🎁 Loyalty GiftReceive the server as a gift after 12 consecutive months of uninterrupted rental. Includes only the chassis, CPU, 8 GB RAM, and the 128 GB OS SSD on its SATA adapter. External USB drives are your own hardware. ✅ In StockAvailable for immediate provisioning, usually within 24 hours of order.
Micro Intel Server

Micro Intel

Intel Celeron N2807
2 Cores / 2 Threads
8 GB RAM
128 GB SSD (SATA adapter)
1x 1 Gbps port
10 TB/mo
1 IPv4 | 1 IPv6
USB: 1x 3.0 + 2x 2.0
DC: DreamServer, Bucharest
Setup: €10
€220
/year
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🎁 Loyalty GiftReceive the server as a gift after 12 consecutive months of uninterrupted rental. Includes only the chassis, CPU, 8 GB RAM, and the 128 GB OS SSD on its SATA adapter. External USB drives are your own hardware. ✅ In StockAvailable for immediate provisioning, usually within 24 hours of order.
Micro AMD Server

Micro AMD

AMD G-T48E
2 Cores / 2 Threads
8 GB RAM
128 GB SSD (SATA adapter)
1x 1 Gbps port
10 TB/mo
1 IPv4 | 1 IPv6
USB: 3x 2.0
DC: DreamServer, Bucharest
Setup: €10
€200
/year
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🎁 EXCLUSIVE MICRO LOYALTY PROGRAM

Rent 12 Months, Keep Your Micro Server Forever

Both micro server models (Micro Intel and Micro AMD) ship with the Loyalty Gift badge. After 12 consecutive months of uninterrupted rental, the physical box is yours to keep. Take it home, plug it in anywhere, run it on your own internet, or just mount it in a closet and forget about it.

✅ What the Gift Includes

  • ✓The physical micro chassis and CPU (Intel Celeron N2807 or AMD G-T48E)
  • ✓The internal 128 GB SSD on its SATA adapter (the drive the server ships with)
  • ✓The full 8 GB RAM (standard, the chassis maximum)

❌ What Is Not Included

  • ✗External USB HDDs or SSDs attached during rental are your own hardware and will be detached before handover
  • ✗Power supply spares or replacement parts beyond the original shipped unit
  • ✗Any other components added during the rental period
⚠ No Warranty After Handover: Once you pick up your gifted micro server, DreamServer provides no warranty or technical support for the hardware. The server is provided as-is, free of charge, and we cannot be held liable for any subsequent hardware failure.

Perfect for These Use Cases

Micro servers shine in the quiet, reliable, always-on workloads where a VPS feels too restrictive and a full dedicated server is overkill. Attach USB drives for cheap bulk storage and you have an incredibly capable little box.

Backup & Storage Server

Plug external HDDs or SSDs into the USB 3.0 port (on the Intel model) for fast multi-terabyte backup targets. Run restic, borg, rsync, Duplicati, Syncthing, or Nextcloud. Offsite backup for your home lab or small business at a fraction of cloud costs.

VPN & DNS Endpoint

Low-power always-on bare metal is ideal for WireGuard, OpenVPN, Tailscale exit nodes, plus Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, or Unbound DNS resolvers. Romanian IP for your traffic with dedicated hardware reliability.

Home Lab & Dev

Run a personal Gitea/Forgejo, a Docker host for side projects, Nextcloud for family photos, Jellyfin media server, Home Assistant relay, or a small Proxmox hypervisor with a handful of LXC containers. Real bare metal, no noisy neighbours.

Bots, Monitoring & Always-On Services

Discord/Telegram/Matrix bots, Uptime Kuma, Grafana + Prometheus, small web honeypots, mail relays, Caddy reverse proxies, static-site builders, scheduled cron jobs, IRC bouncers (ZNC), Murmur voice servers. Quiet machines that just work.

Your own bare metal for less than a euro a day

Deploy a dedicated micro server in under 24 hours. No shared-hosting compromises, no virtualization overhead, no noisy neighbours. Full root access, your choice of Linux, and USB external storage ready to plug in.

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RTBH DDoS Mitigation with sFlow Telemetry

We operate Remotely Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) filtering on our BGP uplinks, continuously monitored via sFlow telemetry on our edge routers. When traffic to a destination IP spikes above baseline, our sFlow collector detects the anomaly in real time and triggers a blackhole route over iBGP. The blackhole community is automatically announced to our upstream Transit Providers, so the attack traffic is dropped at their network edge before it ever reaches our network, while the rest of your infrastructure stays online.

Your small always-on services (VPN endpoints, DNS resolvers, Git mirrors, Nextcloud, backup targets, monitoring collectors) stay reachable on every IP that is not being flooded. No heavy DDoS appliance is required on the tiny chassis itself. You can announce a blackhole community yourself (if you operate BGP with us) or simply ask our NOC to trigger it. RTBH is effective against volumetric L3/L4 floods (UDP, SYN, amplification). Layer 7 application-layer attacks fall outside the scope of RTBH and require application-level defenses such as a WAF, rate limiting, or caching that you implement at your own application tier.

Compromised Hosts 1 Attack launched Internet user192.0.2.5 Transit Provider Upstream ISP sp-router DreamServer AS57050 ce-router Your Micro sFlow Telemetry Collector real-time anomaly detection attack dropped legit traffic sFlow 2 iBGP 3 BGP blackhole announcement (eBGP) automatically propagated to upstream 4
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Pair Your Micro Server with Proxmox Backup Server

Even small servers carry critical data: VPN credentials, DNS zone files, DHCP leases, internal Git repos, dev environments. Pair your micro server with our Proxmox Backup Server service. The lightweight backup client runs on most modern Linux distributions, so you can back up files, directories, and entire disks from your micro server into a centralised, deduplicated, encrypted store hosted in our datacenter. Encryption happens client-side with AES-256-GCM, before any byte leaves the box.

A micro server can also act as a Proxmox VE host for one or two lightweight VMs or LXC containers. If that is your setup, PBS plugs in as a native storage target on the Proxmox VE node (Proxmox VE 8 or newer recommended), uses QEMU dirty bitmaps for fast incremental backups, and unlocks Live-restore so a guest can boot while data is still streaming back.

Incremental & Deduplication
MICROSERVER HOST proxmox-backup-client /etc/wireguard /var/named, /var/lib/git /dev/sda (raw SSD) Encrypt → Compress → Chunk AES-256-GCM ZSTD compression SHA-256 chunk hash Backup #1 · FULL · many chunks Backup #2 · INCREMENTAL · only changed chunks sent Backup #3 · INCREMENTAL · minimal delta TLS 1.3 · AES-256-GCM end-to-end encrypted server stores ciphertext only DEDUP PROXMOX BACKUP SERVER SHA-256 verified chunk store a3f2..x3 7c91..x5 b8e4.. d105..x2 e0a7.. f291.. 22cc.. 9b3a.. 4f88.. 15e2.. duplicate chunks → single stored copy Snapshot manifest (index.json) 320 chunks · 287 unique · 33 deduped
Encrypted, compressed chunks in flight Dedup match (chunk already stored) Single stored copy, N references

Incremental + Deduplication

Periodic backups produce mostly duplicate data. The client sends only changed blocks; the server splits data into fixed or variable sized chunks and collapses identical ones across all hosts and snapshots. A fleet of VMs sharing one OS image stores that OS once.

ZSTD Compression

Zstandard handles several gigabytes per second on modern CPUs while keeping a high compression ratio. Backups stay fast and storage stays small, with no perceptible CPU pressure on the source host.

End-to-end Encryption

Authenticated AES-256 in Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) runs on the client, before any byte leaves the host. An optional RSA master key pair safely stores and recovers the backup key, which you can print for offline, disaster-proof storage.

SHA-256 Integrity

Every backup ships with a manifest (index.json) listing every file, size, and SHA-256 checksum. Schedule verification jobs to catch bit rot. The same checksums drive cross-machine deduplication, so identical OS chunks are stored once across your fleet.

Granular Recovery

Why restore everything when you can restore one file? Browse the snapshot catalog, pull individual files or directories from a VM image, drop into an interactive recovery shell, or Live-restore a guest that boots while data is still streaming back.

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Tight integration with Proxmox VE 8 or newer, certificate-fingerprint pinned, deployable in minutes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before ordering a micro dedicated server.

What are micro dedicated servers good for?
Micro servers are low-power, always-on bare metal ideal for backup targets, VPN endpoints (WireGuard, OpenVPN), DNS resolvers (Pi-hole, AdGuard Home), Git repositories, small home-lab services, Nextcloud, uptime monitors, Discord/Telegram bots, web honeypots, and any lightweight service that benefits from running on dedicated hardware rather than a VPS.
Can I attach external hard drives via USB?
Yes. Both micro models have USB ports you can use for external HDDs or SSDs. The Intel model provides 1x USB 3.0 port (great for fast backup targets up to ~400 MB/s real-world) plus 2x USB 2.0. The AMD model provides 3x USB 2.0 ports. USB-attached drives are perfect for adding cheap bulk storage without paying for premium NVMe or SAS in the chassis.
What is the 128 GB SSD on SATA adapter?
The internal 128 GB OS drive is a standard SATA-interface SSD mounted on an adapter inside the micro chassis. It hosts your OS and core application data at full SATA speeds. For larger datasets, pair it with external USB drives.
How does the Loyalty Gift work for micro servers?
After 12 consecutive months of uninterrupted rental, the physical micro server is yours to keep free of charge. The gift includes the chassis, CPU, 8 GB RAM, and the 128 GB OS SSD on its SATA adapter. External USB drives you attached during the rental are your own hardware and are not part of the handover either way. No warranty or support is provided after handover.
Can I run Windows Server on a micro server?
Technically yes, but with 2 cores and 8 GB RAM, Windows Server is heavy for these machines. We strongly recommend Linux (Debian, Ubuntu LTS, AlmaLinux, Alpine) for best performance and stability. FreeBSD and OpenBSD also run well.
Can I upgrade the RAM or CPU?
No. Micro chassis ship with soldered or fixed configurations and do not support CPU/RAM upgrades. If you need more horsepower, consider our Enterprise, Blade, or Game Servers, or pair the micro with external USB storage for capacity expansion.
Is this suitable for running a website?
Yes, for small sites. A micro server handles personal sites, wikis, static sites, small WordPress installs, or a few Docker containers comfortably. For higher-traffic sites, database-heavy apps, or multi-tenant hosting, look at our Enterprise or Blade lines.
Why yearly billing instead of monthly?
Yearly billing lets us price micro servers more aggressively (effectively under 1 EUR/day) and reduces admin overhead for long-running low-cost hardware. Most customers use micro servers for always-on multi-year services anyway.
Is DSIX peering included?
Micro servers ship with a standard 1 Gbps port and full internet transit, but direct BGP peering with DSIX is primarily offered on our Enterprise, Blade, and Game Server lines. For micro customers in Romania, standard transit already provides sub-10 ms latency to most local ISPs.
Where is the datacenter?
All DreamServer dedicated servers are hosted in our own datacenter in Bucharest, Romania, within EU jurisdiction. Redundant power, N+1 cooling, multi-carrier fiber uplinks, on-site staff.
What Linux distribution do you recommend for a micro server?
For most always-on workloads we recommend Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS, which offer the best combination of package coverage, long support windows, and low resource usage. AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux are great if you need RHEL compatibility. For the most minimal footprint (lightweight VPN endpoints, single-purpose boxes), Alpine Linux works excellently with its musl-based toolchain and tiny base image.
Can I run Docker or Podman containers on a micro server?
Yes. Both Docker and Podman run well on micro servers within the 8 GB RAM budget. Typical setups handle 5-15 small containers comfortably (reverse proxy, small databases, bots, static site builders, monitoring agents). For heavier container workloads (Kubernetes control plane, many large images, production multi-tenant setups), consider our Enterprise or Blade line instead.
Does RTBH DDoS mitigation apply to micro servers?
Yes. Every micro server sits behind the same AS57050 network with sFlow-monitored RTBH filtering on our BGP uplinks. If a flood targets your micro IP, we (or you, if you run BGP with us) can announce a blackhole community to drop the attack at the upstream edge before it reaches our network. See the RTBH section on this page for the full flow.
Can I migrate from another hosting provider to a micro server?
Yes. You get full root access from day one. For data migration, use rsync, scp, tar over SSH, or any backup/restore tool your current provider supports. Our NOC can assist with cutover planning (DNS TTL lowering, staged sync, final switchover) to minimize downtime during the move.
Can I send outbound SMTP or run a mail server?
Outbound SMTP on port 25 is rate-limited by default to discourage spam abuse. If you run a legitimate mail server with proper MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and matching reverse DNS, we will unrestrict port 25 on request. We also provide PTR/rDNS configuration for all your IPs so mail acceptance from major providers works out of the box.

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