Infrastructure
Dedicated Servers
Bare-metal or dedicated virtual servers provisioned in regions with clean IP space and stable transit. The physical layer under our MTA offerings, available separately for clients that want to run their own stack under our reputation.
Overview
Dedicated servers are the substrate. Northbound operates racks and cages in colocation facilities where we control the IP allocations and BGP announcements. Clients that already run their own MTA stack can rent this substrate directly.
This is a lower-touch offering than managed SMTP: we deliver hardware, network and IPs; the client operates the software.
Benefits
- IP space announced under our AS, with clean allocation history
- Multi-region availability with matched hardware specifications
- Direct transit peering with the major eyeball networks
Technical specifications
| Hardware | Modern x86-64, ECC memory, NVMe storage |
|---|---|
| Network | 10 GbE uplinks, DDoS-scrubbed transit |
| Regions | US-East, US-West, UK, NL, DE, CH, SG |
Use cases
- — Teams with existing MTA expertise that only need infrastructure
- — Backup or overflow capacity for existing sending operations
Questions
Do you offer per-hour billing?
No. Servers are billed monthly. Email infrastructure is not a workload where hourly billing produces good outcomes.
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