24-core dedicated servers
Xeon Gold 6138 (dual 12c) or single Xeon Platinum 8168 (24c/48t) — 24 physical cores, 128-256 GB DDR4 ECC, 10-100 Gbit uplinks.
Best-fit dedicated plans
These are the closest stock plans in our catalogue for 24-core dedicated server workloads. Fully customizable — port, storage, RAM, DDoS profile.
Xeon E5-2690 v3 · 128 GB · 10G
2× Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 v3 · 128 GB DDR4 ECC · 2× 512GB NVMe · 10 Gbit/s unmetered · DDoS-protected
Dual Xeon Gold 6138 · 128 GB · up to 100G
2× Intel® Xeon® Gold 6138 · 128 GB DDR4 ECC · 2× 1TB NVMe · 10/20/40/100 Gbit unmetered
Xeon Platinum 8168 · 256 GB · 4× NVMe
1× Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 · 256 GB DDR4 ECC · 4× 1.92TB NVMe · configurable bays
About 24-core dedicated server
24 physical cores is the sweet spot for many production workloads — enough parallel headroom for container clusters, mid-size databases, IPTV panels or CDN origins, without paying for capacity you won't use.
Two platforms in our catalogue deliver 24 physical cores: 1× Xeon Platinum 8168 (24c/48t, single-socket, 256 GB DDR4 ECC standard) and dual Xeon Gold 6138 (2× 12c = 24c/48t via SMT, 128 GB standard, 100G option). Pick single-8168 for single-thread performance, dual-Gold for maximum PCIe lanes and 100G networking.
Common workloads sized for 24c: mid-scale Kubernetes clusters (~50 pods), busy Postgres/MySQL master (10k+ QPS), 15-30k line IPTV panels with light transcode, mid-CDN edge nodes, private ML inference behind API gateway, Redis / cache clusters.
Both platforms ship with full IPMI 2.0, 2-4 NVMe drives standard (expandable), IPv4 + IPv6 dual-stack, DDoS protection. Provisioning 24-72 hours.
Frequently asked questions
Single-socket 24c vs dual-socket 12c×2 — which is better?
Single-socket (Platinum 8168) — better for single-thread perf, lower NUMA overhead, cheaper. Dual-socket (2× Gold 6138) — more PCIe lanes for 100G NIC or multiple GPUs, more memory channels for bandwidth.
Can I upgrade to 32 or 40 cores later?
Yes — migration to dual Gold 6138 (40c/80t) or custom EPYC (32c-128c) is straightforward. Data migrated via rsync over private VLAN, downtime under 5 minutes.
Are 24 cores enough for a 30k-line IPTV panel?
For pure passthrough — yes, with substantial headroom. For real-time transcode of 30k concurrent streams — no, use GPU acceleration or scale to 40-64 cores.