CloudNX: Bare-Metal Cloud Compute, Mumbai and Finland
Dedicated NVMe hardware rather than oversold virtual slices, provisioned in about a minute, with browser SSH and full root access. Around 35 per cent under AWS on the m-class SKUs, billed per minute, with a downloadable invoice for every payment.
Why CloudNX exists
Every Indian developer or agency picking infrastructure lands in the same gap. Shared hosting is oversold and slow enough to end any hope of competing on Core Web Vitals. The hyperscalers are fast, but priced and shaped for teams with a platform engineer, and support tickets sit for a day or more.
In the middle sits a lot of ordinary work: a Laravel app, a Node backend, a staging box, a production gateway. It needs real hardware, root access and predictable pricing, not a service catalogue with two hundred entries in it. We built CloudNX because we needed it ourselves, and we run our own production systems on it.
Core features
Dedicated Bare Metal
Real dedicated NVMe hardware, not a shared slice of an oversold host. Provisioned in about a minute with browser SSH and full root access.
Mumbai and Finland
Two live regions today: India in Mumbai and EU West in Finland. US regions are on the roadmap rather than available, and the product says so.
Per-Minute Billing
Top up a wallet and pay only for what actually runs. No card required before you start, and no free signup credit to expire on you.
UPI, SEPA and GST Invoices
International cards, net banking, UPI and SEPA, with autopay on all of them. GST-compliant invoices against a GSTIN for customers claiming input credit.
Migration In and Out
IAM-style keys and S3-compatible storage coming in. Everything runs on Proxmox, so a qcow2 export moves any machine to another cloud in about two hours.
99.5% Compute SLA
Written into the MSA, not the marketing. Single-host until the second box lands, then 99.9 per cent with multi-AZ, and prospects are told that before signing.
Who it's for
- • Developers and agencies who want dedicated hardware without a hyperscaler's bill or its complexity
- • Indian startups and SMEs running production apps who need a GST invoice against a GSTIN
- • Teams moving off AWS, DigitalOcean or Linode who want bare metal instead of a shared VPS
- • Anyone who wants to know the exit path before they commit, which here is a qcow2 export
Tech stack
Frequently asked questions
How is CloudNX priced, and what invoice do I get?
Billing is per minute from a prepaid wallet, so you pay only for what actually runs and no card is required before you top up. The public plans are priced in USD, and cards auto-convert at your bank's rate, with UPI, SEPA and net banking also accepted and autopay available on all of them. Every payment produces a downloadable tax invoice for customers who need to claim input credit.
Where are the CloudNX servers, and what latency should I expect?
Two live regions: India in Mumbai and EU West in Finland, both on dedicated bare metal rather than virtual slices. Mumbai keeps requests from the Indian metros in the low tens of milliseconds instead of routing overseas first, which usually shows up as a visible Core Web Vitals improvement against a US or EU region, and it keeps Indian user data in India. US regions are on the roadmap rather than live. If most of your traffic sits outside both regions, a global provider may still be the better answer.
Can I migrate an existing app onto CloudNX, and off it again?
Both. Coming in there are IAM-style access keys, S3-compatible object storage and standard Linux VMs, so rsync, scp or any container migration workflow moves an AWS, DigitalOcean or Linode deployment across. Going out matters just as much and is rarely documented: everything runs on Proxmox, so you can export a qcow2 image of any machine whenever you like and import it into another cloud in about two hours.
What uptime does CloudNX commit to?
99.5 per cent on compute, written into the MSA rather than into marketing copy. That is the contractual commitment and not a measured result, and it is deliberately conservative: the platform is single-host until the second box lands, at which point it moves to 99.9 per cent with multi-AZ. Prospects are told this before they sign rather than after, on the view that losing a deal costs less than missing an SLA.
How does CloudNX compare to AWS or DigitalOcean?
About 35 per cent cheaper than AWS on the m-class workhorse SKUs, and comparable to DigitalOcean and Linode on raw price while giving dedicated bare-metal NVMe instead of a shared VPS. It is not cheaper on everything, and CloudNX publishes a line-by-line AWS comparison that names the SKUs where AWS wins. If you need deep multi-region managed services, stay on a hyperscaler. If you want real hardware, root access and predictable per-minute pricing, that is what this is.
Is there a free trial?
No, and there is no free signup credit. You top up a wallet when you are ready, no card is needed before that, and per-minute billing means an experiment costs what it runs for rather than a month. A three-month free offer ran alongside the 2026 launch and has since ended.
Bare metal, priced per minute
No card to start. Dedicated NVMe in Mumbai and Finland. Downloadable invoices. Read how we built and run it, see our cloud & DevOps services, or get a fixed-price proposal.
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