Intel dedicated servers, matched to the job.

A whole physical server built around an Intel processor and rented to one customer. At Primcast that is one of 33 Xeon and Atom processors, on one, two or four sockets, with the memory, drives and unmetered port printed beside its price. Nobody else’s workload runs on the machine.

From $21.68 a month for Intel Atom C2730 Octa Core 1.70 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 64 GB · 500 Mbps. The least expensive Xeon is $46.18 a month (Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 Quad Core 2.90 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 500 Mbps) and a two-socket Xeon starts at $80.47 (2 × Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps). Every processor has its own price in the list. In Amsterdam and Bucharest the same figures are billed in euros. A build to order adds a one-time $29 setup; ports, drives and memory beyond the entry build are priced on build to order.

Because the machines were bought when they came off lease, after the expensive years of their life, and Intel launched these processors between 2012 and 2019. The monthly price pays for the room, the port and the people, and there is no power line on the invoice. The longer version of that story is on value dedicated servers.

For most rented-server work, yes. Websites, application servers, databases that fit in memory, virtual machines, storage, VPN and streaming run out of cores, memory or port long before the age of a core matters. It is the wrong buy for a job that leans on one very fast thread, for the most cores in one machine (see AMD EPYC), and for software that demands a recent processor. Check that last one against the part number before you order.

Start from the job, not the model. Small services fit an eight-core Atom. Video encoding wants a Xeon E3 with graphics on the chip. Containers and builds fit a Xeon D with eight or sixteen cores. Web, database and virtual machine hosts fit one or two Xeon E5, Silver or Gold. Software licensed per core wants the fewest, fastest cores that do the work. The sentence above does this for your numbers and names the part. The two our customers rent most are the four-core Xeon E3-1585L v5 and a pair of Xeon Gold 6130.

By base clock: Xeon E3-1585L v5 (3.0 GHz), Xeon E5-2667 v4 (3.2 GHz), Xeon Gold 6136 (3.0 GHz). By PassMark’s single-thread rating the five quickest are Xeon E-2286M (2,694), Xeon E3-1585L v5 (2,208), Xeon E5-2667 v4 (2,189), Xeon Gold 6230 (2,175), Xeon Gold 6136 (2,166). The list has a “3 GHz or faster” filter and sorts by clock.

The ones whose processor carries Intel graphics: Xeon E3-1284L v4 (Iris Pro P6300), Xeon E3-1284L v3 (Iris Pro 5200), Xeon E3-1585L v5 (Iris Pro P580), Xeon E-2286M (UHD P630). Quick Sync is the hardware video encoder inside those graphics. All of them encode H.264; the E3-1585L v5 and the E-2286M also encode HEVC. Plex and Jellyfin both use it, and so does Cue, our own media server. The Xeon E5, Silver, Gold and Xeon D processors and the Atoms have no graphics on the chip (how to check any Intel part); on those, encoding runs on the cores or on a graphics card.

Neither, in general; it depends on the job. Choose Intel here for the widest choice of processors and cities, for encoding on the chip, for four sockets on one board, or because your software is certified for it. Choose AMD EPYC when you want the most cores in a single machine: our EPYC line is built to order and goes well past what two of these Xeons reach.

A Xeon is the part made for the job: it takes error-correcting memory, it comes in two- and four-socket versions, and it is built to run all day. A desktop Core processor gives a faster single core for the money and stops at one socket. Every racked Intel machine here is a Xeon or an Atom; one Core i5 machine is built to order in Bucharest.

Proxmox VE 9 installs on every Intel line; its own requirement is a 64-bit processor with Intel VT-x, which every processor here has, the Atoms included. Windows Server 2025 is offered on the Xeon E5, Silver and Gold machines; the single-processor cartridges stop at Windows Server 2022. VMware is the one to check first: vSphere 8 dropped processors their makers had retired, which takes in the oldest Xeon generations here, so for vSphere 8 choose a Xeon E5 v4, Silver or Gold and confirm the part against VMware’s compatibility guide. Windows is a paid licence counted per core, which the sentence above adds for you.

Yes. Each server has its own port at the access switch, sold as a speed, and nothing counts the traffic that crosses it: no allowance, no overage. 8 of the 13 Intel lines include 1 Gbps and the other 5 include 500 Mbps with 1 Gbps as an upgrade. What faster ports cost is on unmetered servers and 10 Gbps servers.

On most lines. Every Xeon E5, Silver and Gold machine and the Xeon D and E3-1585L v5 cartridges have an out-of-band console you open from the dashboard. The Atom, E3-1284L and E-2286M lines have power control and reinstall only, so a firewall mistake there is fixed by a reinstall or by us.

A machine that is already racked is handed over about 30 minutes after the payment is approved. A build to order takes 4 to 24 hours. A racked machine can be refunded on a written request within three calendar days of activation, pro rata less a 15% administration fee; builds to order and cryptocurrency payments are not refundable. The full terms are in the refund policy.

This page lists what the checkout sells, which does not change with the shelf. What is racked and ready this minute is on instant servers, and the live list can be filtered by processor at primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers. A line with no ready unit is built for you in 4 to 24 hours.

Yes. The configurator lists every processor by its Intel model number with its price beside it, and the list on this page gives the same parts with the cores, clock and launch year Intel publishes for each.

Yes, when your drives can be moved to a new server. It is handled as a custom upgrade, so contact us with the processor you want and we will tell you whether the drives can move and arrange the change.