High-memory virtual machines on paid-off Xeon servers in a telephone central office in Nova, Ohio. Pick Classic hosts from 2013 for the lowest price, or Plus hosts from 2016 for faster cores and AVX2. Either way the memory is plentiful and the CPU is patient.
Every Classic host has 512 GB of memory and 48 processor threads. We sell seven 64 GB slices and keep the eighth for the hypervisor, so nothing is oversold.
Your address range: 0x00_0000_0000 to 0x0F_FFFF_FFFF
Memory is reserved for you, not shared or ballooned. A vCPU is one hardware thread, and two threads make one physical core, so 6 vCPUs is three cores' worth. Billed monthly. Cancel whenever you like.
These servers left someone else's data center years ago. That is why the memory is cheap, and it is also why some workloads belong somewhere else.
| Per host | Classicfrom $50 / month | Plusfrom $65 / month |
|---|---|---|
| Processors | Two Xeon E5-2697 v2 (Ivy Bridge-EP, 2013), 12 cores each at 2.7 GHz | Two Xeon E5-2697 v4 (Broadwell-EP, 2016), 18 cores each at 2.3 GHz, 3.6 GHz turbo |
| Cores / threads | 24 / 48 | 36 / 72 |
| Memory | 512 GB DDR3 ECC registered | 768 GB DDR4 ECC load-reduced, 24 × 32 GB |
| Sold / reserved | 448 GB in 7 slices, 64 GB for the hypervisor | 704 GB in 11 slices, 64 GB for the hypervisor |
| Instruction sets | AVX. No AVX2 or AVX-512. | AVX and AVX2 (x86-64-v3). No AVX-512. |
| Chassis | 2U dual-socket | Dell PowerEdge R730xd, 2U |
The servers are a decade old and cost very little to buy. The building, power and network were already here for the telephone exchange. We pass that on instead of pricing against the big clouds.
Pick Classic if you only care about RAM per dollar. Pick Plus if your software needs AVX2, or if you want quicker cores and more threads per gigabyte for about $15 more per 64 GB.
On Classic hosts, expect roughly half the single-thread speed of a current server CPU. Plus hosts are noticeably quicker but still well behind new hardware. Work that spreads across cores or mostly waits on memory is fine. Work that depends on one fast thread is not.
No. This is a single site with a single uplink and old hardware. We keep spare parts on hand and fix things quickly, but you should keep backups somewhere else.
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Yes. A whole Classic host gives you 512 GB, 24 cores and 48 threads for $320 a month. A whole Plus host gives you 768 GB, 36 cores and 72 threads for $540 a month. No other tenants either way.
We are adding hosts a few at a time, in the order people sign up. Leave an email and we will write once when your size is ready.