Cloud VPS · Dedicated CPU

DC-16: 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB NVMe

DC-16 is the size most teams land on when they move a constant workload off shared cores. Four reserved cores and 16 GB handle a production application with background processing that never really stops, at a price that is still a fraction of a whole machine.

Configure DC-16 Compare with a dedicated server

Specification

What the machine is.

Full specification of the DC-16 plan
Compute
vCPU	4 pinned
RAM	16 GB ECC
Processor	AMD EPYC, cores pinned to your machine
Virtualisation	KVMYour own kernel, full root, no container shim.
Storage
Capacity	160 GB NVMe
Layout	Local NVMe attached to the host running the server, with no storage network in between.
Network
IPv4	1 included
IPv6	/64 block
Transfer	4 TB / month (metered)Outbound only is counted. Going over does not cut you off — we get in touch.
DDoS filtering	Volumetric layer 3 and 4 filtering at the edge. Application-layer attacks are not filtered.
Notes	Inbound traffic is free, and traffic between your own servers inside one region is not counted at all.
Software
Images	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Debian 12, AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9, Ubuntu 24.04 + DockerEvery image we ship is Linux.
Control panels	None — we do not resell panel licences
Backups	On-demand snapshots, free to take and keep. Nightly backups kept 7 days, stored off the host, for 20% of the plan price
Management	Self-managed
Deployment
Regions	12 availableDefault region Frankfurt.
Ready in	Reachable about a minute after the order is paid
Availability	In stock

What it costs

$94.90/month

Renews at $94.90 a month. The first price is the forever price.

Hourly: $0.130/hr
Annual: $1024.92/yr
Setup fee: None
Billing terms: monthly or annual
Currency: USD

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

Configure and deploy

Region and image are chosen on the configurator, and the price does not change with either.

Scope

What the price covers, and what it does not.

DC-16 is a self-managed server. The list on the right is not a gap we intend to fill later — it is the other product.

In the price

Full root access on a KVM virtual machine with its own kernel
One dedicated IPv4 for the life of the server, plus a /64 of IPv6
Local NVMe attached to the host, with no storage network in between
On-demand snapshots, free to take, restorable in place or into another region
Browser console straight to the machine for when SSH is the thing that broke
Rebuild onto any image in about a minute, keeping the same IP address
Private networking inside a region that does not count against transfer
Resize up in place; the same REST API the control panel uses

Not in the price

Nobody patches the operating system but you — this is a self-managed server
No Windows images: every image we ship is Linux
We do not resell control panel licences (cPanel, Plesk or otherwise)
A host failure is a restore from your latest snapshot or backup, not a live migration
Regions cannot be changed in place; moving means a new server and a DNS cutover
Prepaid terms are not pro-rated if you destroy the server early

Suited to

Where DC-16 is the right size.

Four pinned cores, 16 GB, 160 GB of NVMe.

Always-on background workers: Queues that are never empty are the clearest case for pinned cores: the work is constant, so the capacity should be too.
A database under steady write load: Predictable CPU means predictable commit latency, which is harder to get from a shared core.
A fleet of CI runners: Four cores split across two or three concurrent jobs, with build times you can actually put in a dashboard.

Line

DC-16 sits on the Dedicated CPU line. Cores on this line are pinned to your machine and never shared, so sustained load runs at the same speed at 3pm as it does at 3am.

Questions

About DC-16 specifically.

These are the questions this plan actually gets, answered without the marketing round-off.

Is a dedicated server better value than DC-16?

Above roughly $60 a month the arithmetic starts to favour metal on raw cores — DS-1 is $133.90 a month plus a one-off $49.00 for 20 threads and 64 GB. What you lose is the panel-driven resize, the snapshot, and provisioning in about a minute. The comparison page lays both sides out.

Can I resize between lines?

Resizing up within a line is done in place. Moving between lines changes the host shape, so it is a rebuild — take a snapshot, deploy the new plan from it, cut over.

Other sizes

If this one is not quite the shape.

Where to run it

DC-16 deploys in 12 regions.

Before you buy