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Lease bare metal

bare metal → lease a machine. The form runs top to bottom: name → machine → operating system → access → billing. A live quote in the right rail updates as you change host, term, or IPv4 block size.

Before you start

  • Fund the org wallet — monthly terms charge due now at submit time.
  • Register SSH keys under Developers → SSH keys (or add them during VM/bare-metal flows).
  • Pick an available host — browse inventory if the list is empty.

1. Lease name

DNS-safe slug for this lease (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens; 1–63 chars; no leading/trailing hyphen). Shows as bare-metal-instances/{slug}. Auto-fills from the host name until you edit it.

2. Machine

Cards list only available hosts: spec label, monthly price, CPU model, cores, RAM, storage, datacenter. If none are free, check browse inventory or try again later.

3. Operating system

Three paths — pick one:

  • Curated catalog — Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux. Metalhost runs a managed network install and injects your SSH keys via cloud-init.
  • custom image url — HTTP(S) URL reachable from the datacenter; overrides the catalog pick.
  • No OS — bring your own — skip managed install. You install from the ISO library via the console. Configure networking yourself using the assigned IPv4 block.

4. Access

Managed install only:

  • ssh user — defaults to the distro user (ubuntu, debian, …). Cannot be root.
  • ssh keys — checkboxes for project keys; all selected by default. Without at least one key, only serial console works at first boot.

Public IPv4 block (managed and BYO):

SizeCIDR
1 IP/32 (default)
2 IPs/31
4 IPs/30
8 IPs/29
16 IPs/28

Optional cloud-init user-data for managed installs — leave blank for Metalhost to generate minimal SSH-only config.

5. Billing

TermNotes
hourlyPay-as-you-go while the lease is active.
1 / 3 / 6 / 12 monthPrepay from wallet at lease time. Discounts: 5% (3 mo), 8% (6 mo), 12% (12 mo).

Monthly terms: optional auto-renew at term end — if off, the lease falls back to hourly when the term expires.

Live quote

Right rail shows hourly rate, host $/mo, public IPv4 $/mo (per IP × count), total $/mo, and due now for prepaid terms. Bandwidth is unlimited — no transfer line item on bare metal quotes. Click lease machine to submit — on success you land on the bare metal list while the lease provisions.

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