If you have ever tried to price a bare-metal server, you know the game: a big " from $X/mo " on the landing page, then the actually-orderable configs cost two or three times that, half of them are out of stock, and the cheap one ships "in 3–5 business days." This is a price-checked shortlist of where to rent a genuinely cheap dedicated server in 2026 — who each provider is for, roughly where pricing starts, and the catch. I pulled the numbers for the last entry from a live, daily-refreshed da...