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Cloud VPS · Dedicated CPU

DC-8: 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe

The Dedicated CPU line pins physical cores to your machine. Nothing else on the host can take them, so performance does not depend on what your neighbours are doing. DC-8 is the entry point: two reserved cores for work that runs flat out and has to finish on schedule.

Rendering of a host machine sliced into virtual servers, one highlightedDC-82 vCPU · 8 GB

Specification

What the machine is.

Full specification of the DC-8 plan
Compute
vCPU2 pinned
RAM8 GB ECC
ProcessorAMD EPYC, cores pinned to your machine
VirtualisationKVMYour own kernel, full root, no container shim.
Storage
Capacity80 GB NVMe
LayoutLocal NVMe attached to the host running the server, with no storage network in between.
Network
IPv41 included
IPv6/64 block
Transfer3 TB / month (metered)Outbound only is counted. Going over does not cut you off — we get in touch.
DDoS filteringVolumetric layer 3 and 4 filtering at the edge. Application-layer attacks are not filtered.
NotesInbound traffic is free, and traffic between your own servers inside one region is not counted at all.
Software
ImagesUbuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Debian 12, AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9, Ubuntu 24.04 + DockerEvery image we ship is Linux.
Control panelsNone — we do not resell panel licences
BackupsOn-demand snapshots, free to take and keep. Nightly backups kept 7 days, stored off the host, for 20% of the plan price
ManagementSelf-managed
Deployment
Regions12 availableDefault region Frankfurt.
Ready inReachable about a minute after the order is paid
AvailabilityIn stock

What it costs

$49.90/month

Renews at $49.90 a month. The first price is the forever price.


Hourly
$0.068/hr
Annual
$538.92/yr

10% off twelve months at $49.90.

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-8 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-8 is the right size.

Two cores nobody else can touch, 8 GB of RAM, 80 GB of NVMe.

A CI runner
Build times stop varying by time of day, which is the whole point of reserving cores in the first place.
A game server
Tick rates hold steady under load because no other tenant can steal the core mid-frame.
Video or audio encoding
Long jobs at 100% CPU are exactly the workload shared vCPU is not sold for.

Line

DC-8 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-8 specifically.

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

Why does DC-8 cost more than VPS-4 with fewer cores?
You are paying for exclusivity, not for the count. Two pinned cores at $49.90 can be relied on for hours; four shared cores at $23.90 are quicker in bursts and unpredictable under sustained load.
Does pinning change anything else about the server?
No. Same KVM platform, same images, same local NVMe, same network, same panel. The only difference is that the cores are reserved.