BareRoot Systems
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Hourly bare metal changed how we do load testing
We spin up twelve machines for four hours before every major release and tear them down after. On any other dedicated host that is a monthly commitment we would eat for no reason. Billing has been accurate to the cent every month, no surprise line items, no minimum term hidden in the ToS. Network to our EU users is solid, US west a bit less impressive but fine.
Fantastic product, frustrating when something breaks
For eight months this was the best hosting decision we made. Then a NIC started flapping and I learned what ticket-only support really means. First response took nineteen hours, and the replacement window they offered was two days out. I moved the workload myself in the meantime. The automation is genuinely excellent - just do not build anything on the assumption that a human will pick up quickly.
Thanks for the detailed feedback - we have passed this to the team and would like to look into your account if you can get in touch.
terraform apply, two minutes, root shell
I have wanted this from a bare-metal vendor for about a decade. The Terraform provider is real, it is versioned properly, and destroying and recreating a node is genuinely a normal operation rather than an act of desperation. We now rebuild our whole CI fleet from scratch every Sunday night and it costs us almost nothing because of the hourly billing. Support is slow but honestly I have opened two tickets in eleven months.
Great fit if your catalogue needs are boring
Five machine types sounds limiting until you realise most of what you actually run is one of five machine types. Ours is the mid AMD box and it has been rock solid. Custom iPXE boot through the API let us stop maintaining our own PXE infrastructure entirely, which removed a whole class of 3am problems. Docs are the best I have read in this space.
Thanks for the detailed feedback - we have passed this to the team and would like to look into your account if you can get in touch.
IPMI locked me out and nobody answered for a day
Ordered two nodes, one of them came up with out-of-band access that just refused my credentials. The API said the machine was healthy, the KVM console said otherwise. Ticket sat unanswered for about 22 hours, then got closed with a one-line "reprovisioned, please retry". It did work after that but no explanation and no apology. I still use them for disposable CI runners, I would not put anything that matters here.
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BareRoot Systems is rated 3.9 out of 5 from 5 customer reviews on HostSerp.
Developer-first bare metal with a proper REST API, a maintained Terraform provider, and hourly billing on stock configurations. BareRoot keeps a deliberately small catalogue of five machine types across four regions, provisions most of them in under three minutes, and exposes IPMI, rescue mode and custom iPXE boot through the same API. Support is ticket-only by design and the docs do most of the talking.
Written by the HostSerp team. Updated 28 Aug 2026.
BareRoot has made a clear bet: a tiny catalogue, automated end to end, priced hourly, with the savings taken out of the support budget. For infrastructure teams that already live in Terraform, it works remarkably well - a stock machine goes from apply to SSH in roughly two and a half minutes, custom iPXE boot is a first-class API call, and the provider is actually maintained rather than abandoned at v0.3. The docs are excellent and largely remove the need to open a ticket. When you do need one, though, expect the queue: there is no phone number, no chat, and hardware replacement is measured in hours rather than the minutes premium vendors advertise. The five machine types also mean that if your workload wants an odd GPU or a 24-bay chassis, this is simply not the vendor. Strong choice for automated fleets, poor choice if you want a human on the line.
All BareRoot Systems Reviews
Hourly bare metal changed how we do load testing
We spin up twelve machines for four hours before every major release and tear them down after. On any other dedicated host that is a monthly commitment we would eat for no reason. Billing has been accurate to the cent every month, no surprise line items, no minimum term hidden in the ToS. Network to our EU users is solid, US west a bit less impressive but fine.
Fantastic product, frustrating when something breaks
For eight months this was the best hosting decision we made. Then a NIC started flapping and I learned what ticket-only support really means. First response took nineteen hours, and the replacement window they offered was two days out. I moved the workload myself in the meantime. The automation is genuinely excellent - just do not build anything on the assumption that a human will pick up quickly.
Thanks for the detailed feedback - we have passed this to the team and would like to look into your account if you can get in touch.
terraform apply, two minutes, root shell
I have wanted this from a bare-metal vendor for about a decade. The Terraform provider is real, it is versioned properly, and destroying and recreating a node is genuinely a normal operation rather than an act of desperation. We now rebuild our whole CI fleet from scratch every Sunday night and it costs us almost nothing because of the hourly billing. Support is slow but honestly I have opened two tickets in eleven months.
Great fit if your catalogue needs are boring
Five machine types sounds limiting until you realise most of what you actually run is one of five machine types. Ours is the mid AMD box and it has been rock solid. Custom iPXE boot through the API let us stop maintaining our own PXE infrastructure entirely, which removed a whole class of 3am problems. Docs are the best I have read in this space.
Thanks for the detailed feedback - we have passed this to the team and would like to look into your account if you can get in touch.
IPMI locked me out and nobody answered for a day
Ordered two nodes, one of them came up with out-of-band access that just refused my credentials. The API said the machine was healthy, the KVM console said otherwise. Ticket sat unanswered for about 22 hours, then got closed with a one-line "reprovisioned, please retry". It did work after that but no explanation and no apology. I still use them for disposable CI runners, I would not put anything that matters here.
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BareRoot Systems is rated 3.9 out of 5 from 5 customer reviews on HostSerp. 80% of reviewers gave it 4 or 5 stars. Reviewers score it highest for Provisioning & Delivery Time (4.8) and lowest for Support & Hardware Replacement (2.8).
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