A bare-metal server is a single-tenant physical machine dedicated to one customer, with no hypervisor and no shared resources. A cloud VPS is a virtualized slice of a shared host, so its performance can be affected by other tenants.

XLC operates from Tier 3+ certified facilities in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, with more locations planned. The Los Angeles facility anchors our server hosting USA footprint and serves as the primary North America peering point into our Asia network.

XLC is built for always-on, latency-sensitive, attack-targeted, and data-residency-bound workloads — patterns common to fintech, gaming, AI/ML, MarTech, and large-scale analytics. We are not optimized as a general server for hosting bursty or low-utilization sites; those workloads usually fit public cloud better.

Yes. XLC provides GPU-ready bare-metal configurations for both training and inference, on the same low-latency network as our standard server service tiers. Specifications are confirmed at configuration time.

XLC deploys multi-vendor Anti-DDoS combining on-premise appliances with upstream cloud scrubbing across L3/L4 and L7. L7 attacks have risen sharply in recent years and often slip past defenses tuned only for bandwidth floods, which is why mitigation capacity must be quoted separately at both layers.

Yes. XLC offers dedicated private links to AWS and Google Cloud at multiple locations, so customers can run cost-intensive compute on our hardware while keeping cloud-native services in their existing environments.

XLC provides 24/7 access to experienced network and systems engineers — humans, not first-line scripts. As major clouds reduce direct support, we treat engineer access as part of the product.