High Performance VPS

What is High Performance VPS?

The High Performance VPS tier is engineered for workloads that punish standard cloud instances: high-traffic applications, latency-sensitive APIs, real-time data processing, and CPU-bound compute. Where our standard Cloud VPS uses balanced AMD EPYC cores, the High Performance tier guarantees dedicated cores at 4.5+ GHz boost with no oversubscription and priority access to the NVMe array.

The pricing reflects the resource guarantee. Where a standard 4 vCPU might share underlying physical cores with neighbors during burst windows, a High Performance 4 vCPU has four physical cores reserved exclusively for that VM. The trade-off is straightforward: pay 30-40% more, get deterministic latency and benchmark-leading single-thread throughput.

When to upgrade from standard Cloud VPS

If your application has consistent, predictable load and isn't sensitive to occasional latency spikes, our standard Cloud VPS is the right choice. You upgrade to High Performance when one of these is true:

• P99 latency matters more than average latency — public-facing APIs, financial systems, real-time gaming.
• Sustained CPU load above 60% — video encoding, scientific compute, ML inference on CPU.
• Single-threaded bottlenecks — Node.js event loops, Ruby on Rails, Python WSGI servers.
• Database servers under heavy write load — PostgreSQL, MySQL with sustained transaction rates.

Hardware specifications

Every High Performance VPS runs on AMD EPYC 9554 or 9654 ("Genoa-X") with 3D V-Cache for extra cache-friendly workloads, or EPYC 9755 ("Turin") for raw frequency. RAM is DDR5-4800 minimum, ECC at every tier. Storage is locally-attached NVMe — not SAN, not networked storage — for sub-100µs read latency.

The networking layer uses Mellanox ConnectX-6 NICs at 40 Gbps with SR-IOV. This means your VPS isn't going through a virtual switch on the host kernel — the NIC delivers packets directly into your VM, eliminating the typical 30-50µs of virtual-switching overhead.

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