Which plan is genuinely the highest performance?

The Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS at $69.95 per month: 8 Cores, 16 GB Dedicated RAM, 150 GB NVMe, on a 10 Gbps port. It leads on cores, memory and disk simultaneously, which no other plan does.

Do I get dedicated CPU cores on the top plan?

No. Dedicated CPU cores are not offered on any range here. What the VDS range offers is dedicated RAM, stated in the plan description, starting at $24.95 per month. Anyone selling you "dedicated cores" on a VPS at this price should be asked to put it in writing.

Is the top plan overkill for a small website?

Almost certainly, yes. A low-traffic site runs comfortably on the entry Classic range at $4.95. The plans on this page exist for workloads that are demonstrably hitting a limit, not for peace of mind.

How do I tell which resource is actually my bottleneck?

Watch the server while it is slow rather than guessing afterwards. High load with idle disk means CPU. Swapping or OOM messages mean memory. High I/O wait means storage. If none of those are happening, the bottleneck is in your application, and a bigger plan will not move it.

Is backup included on the higher plans?

No. No plan in the catalogue includes an automatic backup product, at any price. Backups are your responsibility, and they should live somewhere other than the server they are protecting.

Which is faster, the Cloud range or the NVMe range?

It depends entirely on what you are measuring, and this trips people up because Cloud costs more. Cloud plans have more cores and more memory. NVMe plans have faster storage. If your workload is disk-heavy, the cheaper NVMe range can outperform the more expensive Cloud range.

Can I move to a bigger plan later?

Yes. Contact support with your order ID before making a change, so the move is planned rather than discovered. Starting smaller and moving up once you have measured a real bottleneck is usually the cheaper path.

High Performance · Top of 16 Plans

“High performance” is four different problems.

A faster CPU does nothing if you are out of memory. More memory does nothing if the disk is the queue. Before paying for the biggest plan, it is worth knowing which resource is actually stopping you — so this page starts with the four bottlenecks and names the plan that answers each one.

Up to 8 Cores
Up to 16 GB Dedicated RAM
Up to 150 GB NVMe
10 Gbps port

Find Your Bottleneck Top Plan by Resource

Fastest plan we sell

$69.95/mo

Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS

8 Cores
16 GB Dedicated RAM
150 GB NVMe
Backups still not included

What Actually Makes a Server Fast

Performance is set by whichever resource runs out first, and everything else is spare capacity you paid for. A server with twelve cores and a saturated disk is a slow server. One with fast NVMe and no free memory is a slow server that swaps. This is why a single “fastest plan” number is close to meaningless: the useful question is which of CPU, memory, storage or network is your limit right now. The genuine top of our catalogue is the Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS at $69.95/month — 8 Cores, 16 GB Dedicated RAM and 150 GB NVMe — and it leads on all three at once, which no other plan does. But it is the right answer only if you have measured that you need it.

Most cores: 8 Cores — Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS.
Most memory: 16 GB Dedicated RAM — and dedicated, not allocated.
Largest fast disk: 150 GB NVMe.
Network: 10 Gbps on every range except Classic.
Dedicated RAM is offered on the VDS range only, from $24.95.
Dedicated CPU cores are not offered on any range.

Which Bottleneck Is Yours?

Read the symptoms, not the marketing. Each of these has a different answer, and three of the four are cheaper than the top plan.

CPU-bound Load average stays high, requests queue behind each other, and the disk is idle. Common with PHP under concurrency, video or image processing, compilation, and anything running background jobs alongside a web server.
Answer: Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS — 8 Cores, 16 GB Dedicated RAM, 150 GB NVMe, $69.95/mo. Most cores available, and dedicated memory alongside them. Why VDS is the answer here → $69.95
Memory-bound The server swaps, the OOM killer appears in your logs, or your database's working set no longer fits in RAM and every query hits disk. This is the bottleneck people misdiagnose as "slow disk" most often.
Answer: Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS — 8 Cores, 16 GB Dedicated RAM, 150 GB NVMe, $69.95/mo. Highest memory on the catalogue, and the only range where it is dedicated rather than allocated. $69.95
Storage-bound High I/O wait, slow database writes under concurrent load, or a site that is fine alone and terrible with thirty people on it. If your workload is many small random reads and writes, this is almost certainly you.
Answer: Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS — 8 Cores, 16 GB Dedicated RAM, 150 GB NVMe, $69.95/mo. Largest NVMe allocation available. What NVMe actually changes → $69.95
Network-bound Rare, and usually misidentified. Real symptoms are large file transfers pegged at a ceiling, or a traffic spike that turns into timeouts. If you are serving ordinary web pages, this is almost never your problem.
Answer: Every range except Classic is on a 10 Gbps port, so this is solved by moving off the entry range rather than by paying for the top plan. How port speed works → Any range

If none of those four symptoms match what you are seeing, the bottleneck is in your application rather than the hardware — an unindexed query, an N+1 loop, a synchronous call to something slow. Upgrading buys time to fix it. It does not fix it, and it is the more expensive of the two options.

The Top Plan on Each Axis

Computed from the plan catalogue, not asserted. If the catalogue changes, this table changes with it.

The highest-specification plan for each resource dimension
Resource	Highest available	Plan	Range	Price
CPU cores	8 Cores	Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS	VDS	$69.95/mo
Memory	16 GB Dedicated RAM	Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS	VDS	$69.95/mo
Storage	150 GB NVMe	Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS	VDS	$69.95/mo
Network port	10 Gbps	Every range except Classic		$8.95/mo
Dedicated RAM	VDS only	4 plans, all in the VDS range		$24.95/mo
Dedicated CPU cores	Not offered	Not available on any range, at any price		—

The row that surprises people: the same plan leads on all three of cores, memory and disk. That is not usual in hosting catalogues, and it means the choice at the top is simpler than it looks — there is no trade-off to agonise over between $69.95 and $69.95. Why VDS differs from the VPS ranges →

What a “High Performance” Plan Does Not Buy You

All three of these were implied by the previous version of this page. None of them is true, and you would rather know now.

It does not mean dedicated CPU cores

No VPS range here offers exclusive cores, and neither does most of the industry at these prices. What the VDS range does offer is dedicated RAM, stated in the plan itself — a real, checkable difference rather than a comfortable phrase.

It does not include backups

No plan in the catalogue includes an automatic backup product. Backups are yours to run, off the server, and the knowledgebase has guides for doing it properly. Any page telling you backups come free with a faster plan is telling you something that is not in the catalogue.

It does not fix a slow application

A query with no index is slow on 12 cores too. Doubling hardware buys you time to fix the real problem; it does not fix it. The most honest advice on this page is to profile before you upgrade.

Performance Questions

8 Cores, 16 GB Dedicated RAM, 150 GB NVMe.

The Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS at $69.95/month — or the plan that answers your actual bottleneck, which is often cheaper. Ask us and we will tell you which.

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