Some systems deserve a machine of their own. A Riyadh dedicated server gives your organisation an entire physical host in a Tier III facility in the Saudi capital, built on SuperMicro blade hardware and connected directly to STC. No other customer shares the processor, memory or disk, which makes bare metal a natural fit for enterprise databases, fintech ledgers, licensed software and private virtualisation clusters.
Three Intel Xeon configurations are available: an E3-1230 with 4 GB RAM at $349 per month, a Xeon 5620 with 8 GB ECC RAM at $549, and a Xeon 5645 with 8 GB ECC RAM at $649. Each includes a 1 TB disk, two Saudi IPv4 addresses, a 10 Mbps port upgradeable to 100 Mbps and 5, 10 or 20 TB of traffic depending on the plan. VAT is included in the price, and annual billing gives you one month free.
Single-tenant servers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with full root or Administrator control.
Servers are SuperMicro blade systems, a hardware family widely used in professional data centers. Blade designs share power and cooling within a chassis, which keeps the physical installation compact and tidy inside the Riyadh facility.
The facility's upstream is a direct connection to STC. For capital-city users and businesses on STC's network, traffic reaches your server without first passing through intermediate carriers, keeping the route short and simple.
Your machine is installed in a Tier III facility in Riyadh. Tier III design is intended to let infrastructure such as power and cooling be maintained without taking the hosted equipment offline.
Each server is delivered with two Saudi IPv4 addresses. Use one for the main host and the other for a second service, a management interface or a virtual machine that needs its own public address.
The monthly price you see is the price you pay, with VAT already included. Finance teams in Riyadh can budget accurately without adding tax calculations on top of the quoted figure for each configuration.
Choose an annual plan and one month is free, which lowers the effective monthly cost for systems you expect to run long term, such as core databases, accounting platforms and private virtualisation hosts.
All three builds share the same facility, upstream, hardware family, IP allocation and billing terms. They differ in processor, memory type and traffic allowance.
The entry configuration pairs an Intel Xeon E3-1230 with 4 GB of RAM, a 1 TB disk and 5 TB of monthly traffic. The E3 family is a single-socket design with strong per-core performance, which suits workloads that need a whole machine but not large amounts of memory: a licence server, a dedicated application node, a build server or a firewall and VPN appliance.
The middle build moves to an Intel Xeon 5620 with 8 GB of ECC memory, a 1 TB disk and 10 TB of traffic. Error-correcting memory makes this a sound base for databases and business systems where silent data corruption would be costly.
The top configuration uses an Intel Xeon 5645, a processor with more cores than the 5620, alongside 8 GB of ECC RAM, a 1 TB disk and 20 TB of monthly traffic. It suits multi-threaded applications, a small virtualisation host or a busy content service that moves a lot of data.
Ordinary memory can occasionally flip a bit because of electrical noise or background radiation. On a desktop, the effect is usually invisible. On a server that holds account balances, invoices or transaction logs, a single flipped bit can corrupt a record or crash a process at an inconvenient moment.
ECC, or error-correcting code memory, stores extra check bits alongside the data and corrects single-bit errors automatically as they happen. Multi-bit errors are detected and reported rather than silently passed on. For Riyadh fintech companies, accounting departments and any organisation running a relational database, that protection is worth having on the machine that stores the authoritative copy of the data.
Both the Xeon 5620 and Xeon 5645 configurations include 8 GB of ECC RAM. If your database is the heart of the business, those two builds are the natural choices. The E3-1230 configuration is listed with 4 GB of RAM and is better suited to roles where the data lives elsewhere, such as a stateless application node or network appliance.
Every hosting facility buys connectivity from one or more carriers. The path from your server to a user's device depends on which carriers are involved and where they exchange traffic. When the upstream is a direct connection to STC, traffic heading to STC's customers can stay on that network from the facility to the user.
For capital-city organisations, the practical effects are:
Users on other Saudi networks still reach the server through normal interconnection. We do not publish latency figures, so test from your own office and from typical customer connections to see the result for your audience.
Two separate numbers describe a dedicated server's network: the port speed, which limits how fast data can move at any instant, and the traffic allowance, which limits how much data can move in a month.
Each server starts with a 10 Mbps port, upgradeable to 100 Mbps. A 10 Mbps port is adequate for databases, internal business systems, API servers with small responses and remote administration, because these workloads exchange many small messages rather than large files. Choose the 100 Mbps upgrade if the server delivers downloads, video, software updates or large reports, or if several hundred users will hit it simultaneously.
Monthly traffic is 5 TB on the E3-1230 build, 10 TB on the Xeon 5620 and 20 TB on the Xeon 5645. To estimate your needs, multiply the average response size by expected daily requests, multiply by thirty, then add backup transfers and updates. Most corporate systems use a small fraction of even the 5 TB allowance, while public content services should look carefully at the larger figures.
Enterprises in the capital, and the companies that build and run systems for them, often prefer a physical server that is used by one organisation only. The reasons vary:
A Riyadh dedicated server addresses these points with a fixed location, a defined hardware specification and full administrative control. We do not claim government certification, approved-vendor status or regulatory compliance, so if a tender or contract lists specific requirements for the hosting provider, review them before you order. Where the requirement is simply in-Kingdom, single-tenant infrastructure that you control, this service fits well.
Each configuration includes a 1 TB disk. That is generous for operating systems, applications and most business databases, but it also means storage resilience is something to plan rather than assume.
For systems where downtime is unacceptable, pair the dedicated server with a replica on a second machine, so a hardware issue on one host does not halt the business.
A dedicated server can host its own virtual machines. Installing a hypervisor such as Proxmox VE, a KVM stack on a standard Linux distribution, or Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server lets you split one physical host into several isolated environments that your team controls completely.
This is useful when you want separate machines for development, testing and internal tools without ordering several services, or when a supplier needs to give each client project its own isolated environment on Saudi hardware. The second Saudi IPv4 address can be assigned to a guest that must be reachable publicly, while other guests sit behind the host's firewall on a private network.
Keep the resource limits in mind. The Xeon 5645 build, with its higher core count, is the most suitable for virtualisation, but all configurations have 8 GB of RAM or less, so plan for a handful of lightweight guests rather than a large cluster. If you need many virtual machines with more memory each, separate Riyadh KVM VPS plans of up to 32 GB may be the better fit.
A dedicated server is fully yours to secure, and the work is best done before any production data arrives.
Enterprise security teams can apply their existing hardening standards in full, since there are no provider restrictions on the software you install.
Many Riyadh projects start on a VPS and move to bare metal later. A move makes sense when one or more of these signs appear:
Equally, a VPS is still the better choice if your project needs more than 8 GB of RAM in one machine, if you expect to resize often, or if the workload is small. Our VPS range goes up to 16 cores and 32 GB. Many organisations use both: a dedicated server for the steady core system and VPS instances for front ends, staging and tools.
Financial technology products depend on a reliable system of record: the database that holds balances, transactions, customer identities and audit trails. That component has a different profile from the rest of a fintech stack. It is long-lived, sensitive and usually grows steadily rather than spiking.
Placing it on a dedicated Xeon server with ECC memory in Riyadh gives a fixed, single-tenant host whose location and specification you can describe precisely. The application tier, which changes more often, can run on separate KVM VPS instances that connect to the database over an encrypted, firewalled link. Operations staff can use a Windows RDP desktop in Riyadh for reconciliation and administration tools, keeping that access separate from production servers.
Remember that financial services are regulated and that obligations depend on your licence and activities. We do not make claims about regulatory compliance; your compliance advisers decide which controls apply. The infrastructure gives you the location, isolation and administrative control needed to implement them.
Dedicated server prices are listed in US dollars with VAT already included: $349, $549 and $649 per month for the three configurations. Monthly billing suits short projects, pilots and situations where you want to confirm performance before committing.
For systems you expect to keep, annual billing gives one month free. In effect you pay for eleven months and receive twelve, which noticeably lowers the yearly cost of a core database or accounting server. Annual terms also simplify procurement for organisations that prefer one purchase order per year.
Orders are placed through the client area at control.serverslot.com, where Riyadh Server services are provisioned and supported. Accepted payment methods are crypto, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and bank transfer. If you need help choosing between the three builds, or want to discuss the 100 Mbps port upgrade, open a sales ticket describing your workload, expected users and data volume.
Each server is a SuperMicro blade system housed in a Tier III facility in Riyadh. Three Intel Xeon configurations are offered: an E3-1230 with 4 GB RAM, a Xeon 5620 with 8 GB ECC RAM and a Xeon 5645 with 8 GB ECC RAM, each with a 1 TB disk.
The facility's upstream is a direct connection to STC, so traffic between your server and users on STC's network does not need to cross intermediate carriers first. That usually keeps routes short and predictable. Users on other networks reach the server through normal interconnection, and you can test from your own locations.
The Xeon 5620 and Xeon 5645 configurations include 8 GB of ECC memory, which corrects single-bit memory errors automatically and protects stored records. For a core database, one of these two is the sensible choice. The 5645 adds more processor cores for busier or multi-threaded workloads.
Yes. Each dedicated server starts with a 10 Mbps port that can be upgraded to 100 Mbps. The base speed suits databases and internal systems, while the upgrade is worthwhile for servers delivering downloads, media, large reports or many simultaneous user sessions. Ask through a sales ticket about the upgrade.
Yes. The prices of $349, $549 and $649 per month already include VAT, so the figure shown is the amount you pay. Choosing annual billing gives one month free, which lowers the effective monthly cost for systems you plan to keep running for a long period.
Yes. Each server includes two Saudi IPv4 addresses. You can assign the second to a guest virtual machine on your own hypervisor, a separate website or a management service. This is useful when a supplier wants to isolate a client project while keeping it publicly reachable.
We do not hold or claim any government certification, accreditation or approved-vendor status. Many suppliers simply need single-tenant infrastructure inside Saudi Arabia under their own control, which this service provides. If a contract lists specific provider certifications, review those requirements before ordering.
Send backups off the machine on a regular schedule, for example to a VPS in Riyadh or Jeddah or to your office. Use database export tools for consistent copies, encrypt sensitive archives, and test restores every few months so you know the real recovery time for your systems.
Tell us where your users are and what you plan to run. An engineer will reply with a recommendation through the ticket system.
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