Hivelocity is a Tampa-based bare metal provider operating in more than 40 locations worldwide. Its model is simple: single-tenant dedicated servers, ordered through a portal or API, with many standard configurations provisioning in minutes. Private networking (VLANs), IPMI access, and a straightforward pricing sheet round out a deliberately lean offering.
In the VMware-exit landscape, Hivelocity plays the same structural role as phoenixNAP: a hypervisor-neutral landing zone for the re-platforming path. Teams install Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, XCP-ng, or their own vSphere licenses on Hivelocity hardware, build clusters across one or several locations, and migrate VMs with conversion tooling. There is no hypervisor premium in the bill, you pay for hardware, not virtualization software.
The distinguishing trait is geographic spread. Where most bare metal providers concentrate in a handful of flagship facilities, Hivelocity distributes smaller deployments across dozens of metro locations, useful for edge workloads, latency-sensitive regional services, or simply putting DR in a genuinely distant city without a second vendor.
Hivelocity is infrastructure-only: it does not manage your hypervisor, and its support scope is the hardware and network. That keeps prices low and suits self-sufficient teams; organizations wanting a managed experience should be looking at the managed-VMware column instead.
For a Proxmox or Hyper-V re-platforming, Hivelocity offers some of the lowest-friction hardware acquisition in the market: pick configurations, deploy in minutes, build your cluster. Total monthly cost for a typical mid-market footprint frequently lands dramatically below a Broadcom renewal, with the caveat that your team now operates the platform.
The 40+ location footprint also makes multi-region DR cheap to architect: a replica cluster in a distant metro is an order away, on the same account and network model.
The lean, far-flung bare metal play. For skilled teams executing a Proxmox-style exit, the economics are hard to beat, quote alongside phoenixNAP and weigh footprint against inventory depth.
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