Dedicated server · Intel Xeon D-2123iT

DS-8: 8 threads, 32 GB, 2 × 512 GB NVMe (softRAID)

DS-8 comes from a supplier range that is sold by name rather than by part number, so we print what is fixed — 32 GB of ECC memory, two 512 GB NVMe drives arriving as a software mirror, and an unmetered half-gigabit port — and treat the processor the way the supplier does: as a class rather than a promise. Their catalogue data currently lists a four-core, eight-thread Xeon D behind this range. It is a low-clock part; buy the machine for the mirrored NVMe and the port, not for compute.

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Specification

The actual hardware.

Full specification of the DS-8 dedicated server
Processor and memory
Processor	Intel Xeon D-2123iT (4 cores / 8 threads)
Threads	8All of them yours — there is no hypervisor of ours on this machine.
Memory	32 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage
Drives	2 × 512 GB NVMe (softRAID)
Raw capacity	1024 GB NVMe
Layout	2 × 512 GB NVMe in a software mirror (softRAID): usable space is about half the raw figure, and one drive can fail without losing data. A mirror is not a backup.
Network
Uplink	500 Mbit
Transfer	Unmetered
IPv4	1 included
Notes	0.5 Gbit uplink, unmetered: no monthly allowance and no overage billing. The port speed is the only ceiling.
Software
Images	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Debian 12, AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9, Ubuntu 24.04 + Docker, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019Linux only. No Windows licensing is sold with this machine.
Control panels	None sold
Backups	None included — backups on metal are yours to arrange
Management	Self-managed
Delivery
Countries	United States
Ready in	Within one business day of the order clearing
Availability	Orderable

What it costs

$45.90/month

Plus a one-off $48.00 setup fee, so the first invoice is $93.90 and every one after it is $45.90.

Setup fee: $48.00Charged once. Not refundable.
Billing terms: monthlyNo annual discount on hardware.
Renewal: $45.90/mo
Currency: USD

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

Out of stockChecked with the supplier a minute ago

DS-8 is out of stock at the supplier in this exact configuration, so we are not taking orders for it. Tell us and we will let you know the moment it returns — or suggest the closest machine we can build today.

Tell me when DS-8 is back

We are not taking orders for this machine while the supplier has none in this configuration. Ask us and we will name the closest build we can deliver today.

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
Unmetered traffic: no monthly allowance and no overage billing
One IPv4 address included
Full hardware access: run your own hypervisor, container platform or bare operating system
Built in Vint Hill, Virginia, United States
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
Resold supplier stock: availability is re-confirmed at order time, before any money is taken
No hourly billing and no minute-scale provisioning — this is hardware, not an instance
No resizing: 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-8 is the right machine for.

Mirrored NVMe and unmetered traffic, on a machine its supplier sells by range name rather than part number.

A small production application: PHP, Node or Go with its database beside it, on drives fast enough that queries are not waiting on the disk.
A tunnel or VPN concentrator: An endpoint whose monthly transfer nobody has to forecast, because nobody is counting it.
A US presence for a European stack: A read replica, a cache or a static origin close to American users, without renting a second production environment.

Questions

About DS-8 specifically.

Why is the CPU listed with a caveat?

The supplier sells this machine by range name and prints no part number on its product page. The Xeon D-2123iT we list comes from their machine-readable catalogue and is what the range ships as today — but the range name is the commitment, not the part. If what we can deliver differs from this page, you hear it before you pay.

What does softRAID mean for my data?

The two NVMe drives arrive as a software mirror: everything is written twice, one drive can fail without losing data, and usable space is 512 GB rather than the 1 TB raw total. A mirror protects against a dead drive, not against a deletion — it is not a backup.

Why NVMe rather than bigger spinning disks?

Because NVMe is the difference between a machine that stores bytes and one that serves a database quickly. If raw capacity on spinning disks is what the workload needs, tell support the size and we will quote a build for it.

Either side of it

The machines you are really choosing between.

DS-9 — $54.90/moIntel Xeon E-2136, 12 threads, 32 GB. Six Xeon cores, mirrored NVMe and a 1 Gbit port with no meter on it.

Where it is built

Pick the country when you order.

United StatesEverything in the line-up can be built here, on the same 1 Gbit unmetered uplink.

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