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

Specification

The actual hardware.

Full specification of the DS-8 dedicated server
Processor and memory
ProcessorIntel Xeon D-2123iT (4 cores / 8 threads)
Threads8All of them yours — there is no hypervisor of ours on this machine.
Memory32 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage
Drives2 × 512 GB NVMe (softRAID)
Raw capacity1024 GB NVMe
Layout2 × 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
Uplink500 Mbit
TransferUnmetered
IPv41 included
Notes0.5 Gbit uplink, unmetered: no monthly allowance and no overage billing. The port speed is the only ceiling.
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
CountriesUnited States
Ready inWithin one business day of the order clearing
AvailabilityOrderable

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.

In stockChecked with the supplier 6 minutes ago

In stock in Vint Hill, Virginia, with the supplier quoting delivery about an hour. Confirmed 6 minutes ago.

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
  • 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 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-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 pick DS-8 over DS-7?
Storage. DS-7 gives four times the raw capacity on spinning disks; DS-8 gives NVMe, which is the difference between a machine that stores bytes and one that serves a database quickly. Both sit on the same unmetered half-gigabit port.

Either side of it

The machines you are really choosing between.

Where it is built

Pick the country when you order.

Before you commit

Two pages that might change your mind.