Dedicated Database Servers — High I/O Bare Metal for Production Databases

Storage matters most for databases

Database performance is dominated by storage I/O — read latency for queries, write throughput for inserts and updates. NVMe SSDs on dedicated hardware deliver random read IOPS far exceeding SATA SSDs or HDDs, and without the contention of shared storage pools on VPS platforms. For high-transaction databases (e-commerce, fintech, SaaS with frequent writes), NVMe dedicated storage is not optional — it is the baseline.

RAM sizing for database servers

MySQL and PostgreSQL use available RAM for buffer pools — caching frequently accessed data pages to avoid disk reads. The more RAM allocated to the buffer pool, the higher the percentage of queries served from memory rather than disk. For a 50GB database, you want at least 32–64GB RAM dedicated to the database buffer pool. On a dedicated server, all system RAM is available for this purpose; on VPS, your effective buffer pool is constrained by your RAM allocation and the hypervisor overhead.

Configuration recommendations by database type

• MySQL / MariaDB (web applications, e-commerce): Intel Xeon Gold or AMD EPYC, 64–128GB RAM, NVMe RAID 1. Most web application databases fit this profile.
• PostgreSQL (analytics, geospatial, complex queries): AMD EPYC 7402 or 9354 — high core count handles parallel query execution. 128GB+ RAM for large datasets.
• Microsoft SQL Server: Windows dedicated with Intel Xeon (socket-based MSSQL licensing is more cost-effective on fewer sockets). Dual Xeon 6142 for large SQL Server deployments.
• MongoDB (document store, large collections): AMD EPYC with high memory — MongoDB's WiredTiger engine benefits from large working set in memory.

Global infrastructure. India-based support.

Bagful operates bare metal infrastructure across 25 locations in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Your server runs wherever your users or compliance requirements demand. What does not change, regardless of which datacenter your hardware sits in, is who you are dealing with: a team based in India, available in IST, billing in rupees, with a phone number and WhatsApp you can actually reach.

This is the combination international providers cannot offer — global reach without the global support queue — and that pure Indian hosting companies cannot match. Bagful has operated from India for over 20 years. Our infrastructure advisors are in Mohali and Mumbai, not Manila or Dublin.

Support runs 10AM–7PM IST, Monday to Saturday. WhatsApp is available for critical infrastructure issues outside those hours. Every invoice is issued in INR with GST from Bagful International LLP — an Indian entity, not an overseas billing address.