Dedicated machines
DS Beast
DS Beast is the dual-Xeon enterprise tier — two Intel Xeon Gold 6338 processors totalling sixty-four physical cores, two-hundred-fifty-six gigabytes of error-correcting memory, four four-terabyte NVMe drives in RAID-10, unmetered ten-gigabit uplink, four-hundred-gigabit DDoS shield, ninety-nine-point-ninety-nine-percent uptime SLA. It exists for the small number of projects whose workload genuinely demands enterprise-grade hardware outside enterprise-grade jurisdictions.
$449 per month
- 2× Intel Xeon Gold 6338 (32c / 64t each)
- 256 GB DDR4 ECC
- 4× 4 TB NVMe (RAID-10)
- Unmetered
Specification
- Processor
- 2× Intel Xeon Gold 6338 (32c / 64t each)
- Memory
- 256 GB DDR4 ECC
- Storage
- 4× 4 TB NVMe (RAID-10)
- Bandwidth
- Unmetered
- IPv4 addresses
- 1
- IPv6
- yes
- Virtualization
- Bare-Metal
- Uplink
- 10 Gbps
- Uptime SLA
- 99.99%
- Operating systems
- Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Windows Server, Proxmox, VMware
Who this plan suits
An enterprise-scale investigative consortium consolidating dozens of member-outlet properties, a regional press-freedom organisation operating shared infrastructure across a federation of NGOs, a large archival project with a multi-petabyte cold-storage layer fronted by a hot RAID-10 working set, a documentary-archive distribution platform whose back-catalogue sustains many concurrent streams. The dual-socket platform supports VMware-grade virtualisation if the consortium wants to sub-virtualise for member organisations while retaining bare-metal control of the underlying hardware.
It is the wrong tier for any workload that does not need its specific shape — the EPYC-based DS Pro matches most production-grade NGO and investigative-consortium workloads at roughly half the monthly invoice. DS Beast is honest only when the workload genuinely requires its capacity; we would rather move a customer down to DS Pro than carry them on a machine they do not need. The unmetered ten-gigabit uplink is the standout differentiator for media-distribution workloads.
Where this plan can be operated
DS Beast is racked in Iceland or Switzerland. At this hardware scale, the per-rack-unit cost economics of the two jurisdictions diverge slightly — Iceland's geothermal-cooled facilities favour the steady-state power draw of a dual-socket platform; Switzerland's hydro-baseline favours mixed-load environments. The operational reality, for a consortium making a multi-year commitment, is that both jurisdictions sustain the workload without operational compromise.
The legal-frame question dominates the jurisdiction decision. For a press-freedom organisation hosting member-outlet infrastructure, Iceland's IMMI posture and the absence of a Höfundalög-side notice-and-takedown obligation make it the conservative answer when the federation's member outlets sit primarily in EU jurisdictions. For a consortium whose adversary profile is more diffuse — civil-procedure attacks from various jurisdictions, disclosure orders that traverse multiple bilateral mutual-legal-assistance channels — Switzerland's revFADP and ProtonMail v UVEK case-law on fishing-expedition disclosure may produce comparable outcomes through a shorter operational pipeline.
What the operator sees, and what it does not
On DS Beast, the bare-metal posture established by DS Lite compounds with the consortium-scale workload model. Many consortium-scale customers run an additional hypervisor layer themselves (Proxmox, VMware, KVM with libvirt) so that member organisations operate inside guest VMs the consortium itself controls; that layer is a customer decision and the operator does not require it. The four-hundred-gigabit DDoS shield is operated upstream and produces post-incident reports for the customer; attack-traffic data is not retained beyond the operational response window.
Full disk encryption is recommended for any workload where it matters; the four-NVMe RAID-10 layout means a single drive failure does not interrupt service and a second-drive failure (in the right pair) is survivable. We replace failed drives without taking the machine offline and the rebuild proceeds in the background. Payment in Monero, Lightning, on-chain Bitcoin, or cash; consortium-scale customers typically pay annually, and the cleanest financial surface for that cadence is Monero.
Jurisdictions
The offering is available from the jurisdictions listed below. The choice between them is made at the order step; this section discloses what the choice is, so the reader knows before the form opens.
- Iceland Reykjavik
- Switzerland Zurich
Ordering this plan
The order step confirms the jurisdiction, the payment rail, and the contact detail before any service is provisioned. Questions about the plan or migration ahead of an order go through the contact form.