Cloud VPS · Dedicated CPU

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

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
Processor	Exact processor varies by region, cores pinned to your machine
Virtualisation	KVMYour own kernel, full root, no container shim.
Storage
Capacity	160 GB SSD
Layout	SSD storage, sized by plan. We describe no layout the supplier has not published.
Network
IPv4	1 included
Transfer	2 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 + Docker, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019Every image we ship is Linux.
Control panels	None — we do not resell panel licences
Backups	Nightly backups kept 7 days, stored off the host, for 20% of the plan price
Management	Self-managed
Deployment
Regions	10 availableDefault region Frankfurt.
Ready in	Online in under an hour after the order is paid
Availability	In stock

What it costs

from$158.90/month

Priced per city, $158.90 to $199.90 a month. Whichever city you pick, it renews at the price you ordered at.

Hourly: from $0.2545/hr
Annual: from $1716.12/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 it shows the price for the city you pick before anything is ordered.

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
SSD storage on every size, named on the plan (NVMe where the supplier states it)
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

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)
No snapshots or size changes from the panel yet: changing size is a support request, and a copy before a risky change is yours to take
No private networking between servers: traffic between two of your own servers uses their public addresses
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 SSD.

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 hourly billing and provisioning in about a minute. The comparison page lays both sides out.

Can I change size or line later?

Not from the panel. A size change is arranged through a support request, and moving to a different line is always a new server: deploy the new plan, copy your data across, then cut over.

Other sizes

If this one is not quite the shape.

Where to run it

DC-16 deploys in 10 regions.

Before you buy