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Dedicated server · Intel Core i5-13500

DS-1: 20 threads, 64 GB, 2 × 512 GB NVMe

DS-1 is the entry point to the European lineup. The i5-13500 is a hybrid part — six performance cores and eight efficiency cores, 20 threads in total — which suits a machine running many small things at once better than one thing very hard. Two 512 GB NVMe drives and 64 GB of memory make it a capable host for a container fleet or a busy application with its database.

Rendering of a server cabinet with one sled pulled outSingle tenant1 Gbit · unmetered

Specification

The actual hardware.

Full specification of the DS-1 dedicated server
Processor and memory
ProcessorIntel Core i5-13500 (14 cores / 20 threads)
Threads20All of them yours — there is no hypervisor of ours on this machine.
Memory64 GB DDR4
Storage
Drives2 × 512 GB NVMe
Raw capacity1024 GB NVMe
Layout2 × 512 GB NVMe, supplied as two physical devices. Mirroring is arranged at build time if you ask for it.
Network
Uplink1000 Mbit
TransferUnmetered
IPv41 included
IPv6/64 block
Notes1 Gbit uplink, unmetered. Additional IPv4 addresses are available on request with a justification.
Software
ImagesUbuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Debian 12, AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9, Ubuntu 24.04 + DockerLinux only. No Windows licensing is sold with this machine.
Control panelsNone sold
BackupsNone included — backups on metal are yours to arrange
ManagementSelf-managed
Delivery
CountriesGermany
Ready inWithin one business day of the order clearing
AvailabilityOrderable

What it costs

$133.90/month

Plus a one-off $49.00 setup fee, so the first invoice is $182.90 and every one after it is $133.90.


Setup fee
$49.00Charged once. Not refundable.
Billing terms
monthlyNo annual discount on hardware.
Renewal
$133.90/mo
Currency
USD

Excludes tax, which is calculated at checkout from where you are and your tax number.

Order this machine

Tell us the country and how you want the drives arranged. If stock cannot meet the one-business-day commitment, you hear that before you pay.

Scope

What the price covers.

The right-hand column is not a list of things we are working on. It is the shape of the product.

In the price

  • A whole physical machine — no hypervisor of ours, no neighbours, no oversubscription
  • 1 Gbit uplink with unmetered traffic
  • One IPv4 address and a /64 of IPv6
  • Full hardware access: run your own hypervisor, container platform or bare operating system
  • Available in Germany
  • Provisioned within one business day of the order clearing

Not in the price

  • Self-managed: operating system, patching and application support are yours
  • A one-off setup fee applies on the first invoice and is not refundable
  • No hourly billing and no minute-scale provisioning — this is hardware, not an instance
  • No panel-driven resize: changing machine is a migration to a different one
  • No Windows licensing sold with it; the images we support are Linux
  • We do not publish IOPS figures for these drives because we have not measured them ourselves

Suited to

What DS-1 is the right machine for.

The cheapest of the European machines: 20 threads and 64 GB for $133.90 a month.

Moving a fleet of VPS onto one box
Twenty threads and 64 GB replaces several mid-sized instances, with no neighbours and no per-instance bill.
A container host
Small services get their own CPU budget, and the efficiency cores absorb the background noise.
A database with room to breathe
64 GB keeps a substantial working set in memory, and the two NVMe drives let you separate data from write-ahead logs.

Questions

About DS-1 specifically.

What do the two drives arrive as?
Two physical NVMe devices. How they are arranged — mirrored, separate, or one for data and one for backups — is decided with you before the machine is handed over, because undoing that choice later means a reinstall.
Is the setup fee refundable?
No. The $49.00 covers the build and the first install, which happen once whether or not the server is kept. It is charged on the first invoice only and never appears again.