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Flavor types

Infrastructure cloud vendors have standardized on the concept of "server flavors", which are sets of specifications for server instances.

Our infrastructure platform delivers three sets of server flavors:

  • Burstable compute.
  • Dedicated compute power / no overcommit.
  • Custom. (Requires dedicated hardware)

Dedicated compute

For every vCPU-pair, the instance will get reserved a dedicated CPU core. All CPU cores are located on the same NUMA channel to avoid hardware bottlenecks.

Dedicated compute instances may have their instance image located on a local SSD RAID on the hypervisor they are running on. This makes it possible to put different server instances in different hardware failure domains.

Burstable compute

Our most affordable instances. These instances are especially suitable for servers that spend most of its time idling.

The server has full access to all its vCPUs for a time, but if it uses a lot of CPU over time, it will be throttled to ensure that other users running burstable instances still get their share of predictable performance.

Custom

When our off-the-shelf offering isn't the best fit, it is possible to do something more tailor made. When running on dedicated hardware, we can divide the hardware however we'd like. This is also a suitable option if we need special hardware for AI workloads or similar.