Located in Tokyo, Japan. The two cards on the right show the EPYC 7543P drive bays and DGX Spark unified memory in turn, with links to each product’s specifications.
No setup fee | No contract | Billed in USD
Choose AMD for long-term storage, disk imaging, and backups; choose DGX Spark for model inference and CUDA experiments. Each has its own pricing and product page.
A good fit for ZFS mirrors, file storage, and virtualization hosts. Monthly rental may not make sense for tests that last only a few days.
For local LLM inference, fine-tuning experiments, and CUDA development. Billed per day; x86 programs and Windows cannot run on this machine.
The server ships without a hardware RAID array, so the operating system sees each NVMe drive independently. The administrator chooses whether to mirror, stripe, or mount them separately. Add 0 to 2 more 2TB NVMe drives, also directly attached.
Manage mirroring, snapshots, and verification policies directly, and adapt drive usage as workloads change. Redundancy must be configured and checked manually.
This server has no hardware RAID, so a failed drive will not be replaced automatically. Customers are responsible for redundancy and backups; the data center handles drive replacement.
Compression, verification, and deduplication can use all 64 threads without competing with neighboring tenants. The trade-off is that the full server is billed monthly, even during idle periods.
Single-socket cores and threads; CPU is not shared
Boost clock; 2.8GHz base clock
L3 cache keeps frequently used verification and deduplication data on-chip
Choose monthly billing to test a drive layout, or annual billing for an established backup pool. The monthly rate stays the same; billing terms differ only in the number of months paid upfront.
Amount due = monthly total × months · No term discountsService stops if not renewed
Each option includes both a good-fit and a poor-fit use case. The right choice depends on data volume, IO needs, and how much hardware work is in scope.
| Comparison criteria | Shared VPSSHARED | Dedicated serverONUCLOUD · EPYC 7543P | Own rackCOLOCATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Multiple tenants share the host’s CPU and drives | One customer gets the full EPYC 7543P and both NVMe drives | Hardware is owned; rack space and power are contracted separately |
| Compute and IO | Neighboring workloads can affect performance, especially backup IO | Direct-attached NVMe; IO varies only with this server’s workload | Depends on self-purchased hardware and network setup |
| Provisioning | Provision from a panel and adjust specifications as needed | Choose options on the configuration page; get the IP and credentials in the console | Arrange purchasing, installation, and cabling yourself |
| Starting cost | Low; start with a few cores | From $472/month, no setup fee or contract | Upfront hardware cost plus ongoing rack fees |
| Good fit | Good fitShort tests with a few cores; scale by the hour | Good fitZFS mirrors, backup pools, Proxmox VE hosts | Good fitTeams that need to keep hardware in their own inventory |
| Not a fit | Not a fitLong-term, high-capacity backups and consistent IO | Not a fitWorkloads lasting only a few days or needing hourly scaling | Not a fitTeams that do not want to handle purchasing, drive swaps, and installation |
Decide whether the data needs mirroring, then choose how many drives to add. More drives mean more capacity and a higher monthly total.
Mount the two 1TB drives separately or combine them into one pool for shared directories and frequently used data. Without mirroring, restore from an off-site copy if a drive fails.
Mirror the two 1TB drives for the system and frequently used data, then add a 2TB drive for local snapshots. The mirrored pair provides 1TB usable capacity and protection against a single-drive failure.
Use both 2TB add-on drives to create a 2TB mirrored backup pool for remote copies. This gives you the most capacity, with a higher monthly total for the two added drives.
Figures show raw capacity; mirroring halves usable capacity. Each 2TB add-on drive is directly attached, not part of a hardware RAID array.
There are no extra traffic fees for transferring terabytes of off-site backups each month. Pricing is based on port speed; see the AMD server plans for upgrade costs and use cases.
See bandwidth options ›The complete system is dedicated to one customer and comes with CUDA and NVIDIA AI software preinstalled. Its fixed configuration is ready for development, but memory and storage cannot be upgraded.
Native ARM software and CUDA applications are ready to use; x86 programs and Windows cannot run.
The software stack is ready to use. NVIDIA DGX OS is the only available OS; other distributions cannot be installed.
Each use case includes its trade-offs. For short tests with a few cores or workloads that need hourly scaling, a shared VPS may be more cost-effective.
The EPYC 7543P supports AMD-V and NPT, and virtual machine disks can use direct-attached NVMe. A full server may be underused for only one or two small VMs.
Explore use cases › DatabaseQuery latency is not affected by shared storage. Replication or mirroring must be configured independently; the data center does not provide redundancy management.
Explore use cases › IPv4 · 256Scale up to 256 dedicated IPv4 addresses for fixed egress and multi-store backends. Not suitable when egress is needed in multiple cities.
Explore use cases › Windows ServerStandard / Datacenter licensed monthly, with RDP access. License fees are added to the monthly total.
Explore use cases ›According to NVIDIA, 128GB unified memory can support quantized inference with around 200B parameters and LoRA / QLoRA fine-tuning at around 70B parameters. Not suitable for x86 programs or multi-node training.
Explore use cases ›The two product lines are priced separately. Each pricing page covers its options and calculations. Prices are in USD; available payment methods are listed on the configuration page.
Compare monthly pricing for 128GB and 256GB configurations, 2TB drive upgrades, bandwidth options, additional IPv4 addresses, and Windows Server licenses. Choose a plan and order from the configuration page.
The DGX page lists the fixed configuration, $15/day rate, and model-size guidance. Confirm ARM64 compatibility, NVIDIA DGX OS as the only available OS, and data deletion at the end of the term before selecting a rental duration on the DGX order page.
14 free OS options and monthly Windows Server licensing are available for AMD dedicated servers. Use SSH with Linux and RDP with Windows; NVIDIA DGX OS comes only with the complete DGX Spark system
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