Dedicated server · Intel Xeon E-2136

DS-9: 12 threads, 32 GB, 2 × 512 GB NVMe (softRAID)

DS-9 is the machine for workloads where the traffic is the product. The Xeon E-2136 is a six-core, twelve-thread part with high boost clocks — enough compute to produce the bytes that the unmetered gigabit port then moves for a flat price. With 32 GB of ECC memory and mirrored NVMe behind it, it is the largest of the three US machines and the only one on a full-gigabit port.

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Specification

The actual hardware.

Full specification of the DS-9 dedicated server
Processor and memory
Processor	Intel Xeon E-2136 (6 cores / 12 threads)
Threads	12All 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	1000 Mbit
Transfer	Unmetered
IPv4	1 included
Notes	1 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 + DockerLinux 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

$54.90/month

Plus a one-off $57.00 setup fee, so the first invoice is $111.90 and every one after it is $54.90.

Setup fee: $57.00Charged once. Not refundable.
Billing terms: monthlyNo annual discount on hardware.
Renewal: $54.90/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-9 is the right machine for.

Six Xeon cores, mirrored NVMe and a 1 Gbit port with no meter on it.

A media or download origin: Video, build artifacts, OS images — steady outbound at gigabit pace, with a bill that does not move.
A busy game or voice server: High boost clocks for the hot thread, dedicated hardware underneath it, and player traffic that nobody meters.
An API with heavy responses: Exports, feeds and image delivery, where transfer would otherwise be the line item that grows every month.

Questions

About DS-9 specifically.

How much traffic can I actually move?

There is no allowance to exhaust and no overage billing — the 1 Gbit port is the only ceiling. Flat out, a gigabit port moves on the order of 300 TB in a month; real workloads are burstier than that, which is fine, because nothing is counting.

DS-9 or DS-1 in Europe?

Pick the continent first: traffic is unmetered on both, so the deciding fact is where your users are. On the machines themselves, DS-1 is far more server for more money — twenty threads, 64 GB and NVMe at $133.90 a month — while DS-9 is $54.90 for four older cores and SATA disks. If the workload is mostly bytes rather than compute, DS-9 does the job for a fraction of the price.

Why does the US lineup stop at 32 GB?

Because that is what the supplier builds at these prices, and we would rather list three machines we can deliver than a longer page we cannot. If you need more memory in the United States, tell support what the workload is; if Europe works, the lineup there goes to 256 GB.

Either side of it

The machines you are really choosing between.

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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