[REQ] Dedicated or pinned-vCPU server — Ohio/Chicago/VA — 64GB, 2TB+ NVMe, modern CPU, $100-150/mo

BladeAndHonor

Location: Ideal Preference - Ohio, USA

Works too: 1. Chicago, 2. Virginia, 3. Toronto

CPU: 8+ cores, modern only:
EPYC 9004/4004 (Genoa/Bergamo), Ryzen 7000/9000,
or Ryzen 5950X (minimum acceptable floor).
Please quote the Passmark single-thread score.
NOT Xeon E5-26xx v2/v4, NOT Xeon Silver 4208.

Pinned/dedicated vCPUs, negligible steal. Bare metal or high-quality VDS
both fine - no time-sliced oversubscription.

RAM: 64 GB DDR4/DDR5 (ECC preferred, not required)

Disk: 2-4 TB usable NVMe. NVMe only, RAID0 of 2x1TB is fine, room to expand later

Network: 1 Gbps unmetered (or 30 TB+/month), Heavy one-off inbound sync of several TB at setup, please confirm that won't be throttled

Use Case: Large dataset server. Read-heavy plus continuous writes, roughly 200 GB/month growth. Single-thread CPU performance matters more than core count

Access: Full root, own binaries, custom ISO or Ubuntu 24.04

Budget: $100-150/month for virtualised. Up to ~$250 for bare metal with 4 TB NVMe.

LEBUserJoe

8+ cores you want a VDS not a VPS which such CPU requirements.

but since you insist,

https://fiberstate.com/dedicated-servers @fiberstate (Said they MIGHT restock soon)

Sucky company but are in stock - https://www.reliablesite.net/dedicated-servers

enderhost

@BladeAndHonor said:
Location: Ideal Preference - Ohio, USA

Works too: 2. Chicago, 3. Virginia 4. Toronto

CPU: 8+ dedicated cores, modern only:
EPYC 9004/4004 (Genoa/Bergamo), Ryzen 7000/9000,
or Ryzen 5000 (5700X/5800X/5950X).
Please quote the Passmark single-thread score.
NOT Xeon E5-26xx v2/v4, NOT Xeon Silver 4208.

Dedicated cores only - no VDS / vCPU / shared-core plans

RAM: 64 GB DDR4/DDR5 (ECC preferred, not required)

Disk: 2-4 TB usable NVMe. NVMe only, RAID0 of 2x1TB is fine, room to expand later

Network: 1 Gbps unmetered (or 30 TB+/month), Heavy one-off inbound sync of several TB at setup, please confirm that won't be throttled

Use Case: Large dataset server. Read-heavy plus continuous writes, roughly 200 GB/month growth. Single-thread CPU performance, matters more than core count

Access: Full root, own binaries, custom ISO or Ubuntu 24.04

Budget: $100-150/month

Hey! Would a VPS in Toronto work if it was Ryzen 9 9950X? Still highly performant even with shared cores

BladeAndHonor

@enderhost

could you send the full specs and price? Main things I need:

• NVMe size (I need 2-4 TB usable)
• RAM
• Bandwidth: metered or unmetered, and will a multi-TB setup sync be throttled?

• Are the vCPUs pinned/dedicated to my slice or time-sliced, and what CPU
  steal do you see under load?

• Rough RTT from your Toronto facility to AWS us-east-2 (Ohio)?