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DS Pro

DS Pro is the EPYC production tier — an AMD EPYC 7443P with twenty-four physical cores at 2.85 GHz base, a hundred-and-twenty-eight gigabytes of error-correcting memory, two two-terabyte NVMe drives in RAID-1, ten-gigabit uplink, two-hundred-gigabit DDoS shield, ninety-nine-point-ninety-nine-percent uptime SLA. It exists for production-grade investigative and NGO workloads where uptime, throughput, and operator-jurisdiction distance all matter at once.

$249 per month

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  • AMD EPYC 7443P (24c / 48t @ 2.85 GHz)
  • 128 GB DDR4 ECC
  • 2× 2 TB NVMe (RAID-1)
  • 100 TB / month

Specification

Processor
AMD EPYC 7443P (24c / 48t @ 2.85 GHz)
Memory
128 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage
2× 2 TB NVMe (RAID-1)
Bandwidth
100 TB / month
IPv4 addresses
1
IPv6
yes
Virtualization
Bare-Metal
Uplink
10 Gbps
Uptime SLA
99.99%
Operating systems
Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Windows Server, Proxmox

Who this plan suits

A regional NGO consolidating Nextcloud, Matrix, Mastodon, a CMS, and a member-data analytics pipeline on one machine; an investigative consortium hosting a multi-publication site whose properties together draw sustained traffic; a press-freedom organisation hosting infrastructure for member outlets; a large secure-collaboration platform serving an editorial network of fifty to two hundred contributors. The EPYC platform's core count is what makes this tier different from DS Mid: where DS Mid favours single-thread latency, DS Pro favours sustained throughput across many concurrent processes.

It is the wrong tier for a workload that fits cleanly in a virtualised environment where co-tenancy is acceptable, and the wrong tier for a workload whose CPU profile is dominated by a small number of latency-sensitive threads. The ten-gigabit uplink is meaningful for video-rich corpora: a documentary back-catalogue served at this tier sustains many concurrent viewers without saturating the link. DS Beast is the answer for a multi-publication consortium consolidating dozens of properties on one machine.

Where this plan can be operated

DS Pro is racked in Iceland or Switzerland. At the 99.99% SLA tier, the operating practices that produce that uptime are the same in both jurisdictions: redundant power, redundant transit, on-site operations, and a 24/7 NOC that responds within minutes. The choice between the two jurisdictions reduces, again, to the legal-frame question — which adversary profile fits which jurisdiction's case-law and treaty posture.

For a regional NGO whose member outlets sit in EU member states, Iceland's geographical and treaty distance from EU domestic prosecutors is the more conservative answer; the IMMI framework and the absence of a Höfundalög-side notice-and-takedown obligation produce a hosting jurisdiction where a foreign press-suppression order has no domestic mirror to enforce against. For a research-team consortium whose readership is concentrated in central Europe and whose adversary profile is more diffuse, Switzerland's revFADP and the courtroom culture established by ProtonMail v UVEK A-550/2019 may be the better fit.

What the operator sees, and what it does not

DS Pro's operational story compounds the bare-metal posture from DS Lite with the production-grade DDoS shield. The two-hundred-gigabit shield is operationally significant: a publication that draws large-scale adversarial campaigns — coordinated traffic from compromised botnets, reflection-amplification attacks, application-layer floods — needs an upstream filter that survives those campaigns. We see attack patterns and source distributions because we have to in order to filter them; we do not retain that data beyond the operational window required to respond and produce post-incident reports for the customer.

The customer's disk contents, memory contents, and application-layer behaviour all sit behind the operating-system boundary that the customer themselves configures. Full disk encryption with TPM-backed keys is recommended for any workload where it matters; we do not retain the key. Payment in Monero, Lightning, on-chain Bitcoin, or cash; for organisational customers at this price tier, annual prepayment is the cleanest financial surface and matches the cadence at which most NGO procurement processes operate.

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.

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.

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