Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 dedicated servers
Dual-socket workhorse — 24 cores total, 128 GB DDR4 ECC, 10 Gbit unmetered. The default IPTV / streaming box in our catalogue.
Best-fit dedicated plans
These are the closest stock plans in our catalogue for Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 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 Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3
The Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 v3 is the go-to Haswell-EP dual-socket platform for streaming, IPTV panels and high-concurrency workloads. Solid CPU headroom, 30 MB L3 cache per socket, and DDR4 ECC memory make it well-suited for real-time transcoding and heavy database traffic.
Each Hostfory 2× E5-2690 v3 build ships with 128 GB DDR4 ECC RAM, 2× 512GB NVMe, a 10 or 20 Gbit/s unmetered uplink, IPMI 2.0, and DDoS mitigation as standard. PassMark CPU Mark ≈ 21,000 across both sockets — sufficient for 400+ concurrent HLS transcode streams (H.264 → H.265 at 720p) or 50-100 KVM VMs.
Typical customers on this SKU: mid-scale IPTV panels (15-50k active lines), Xtream UI clusters, tube-site origins, mid-CDN nodes, private Kubernetes clusters. In our benchmarks a single 2× E5-2690 v3 handles the peak load of a 30k-line panel with 40% headroom.
Provisioning 4-6 hours across all PoPs. Stock always available in Amsterdam and Kyiv. For workloads that need more single-thread performance or PCIe lanes, Gold 6138 or Platinum 8168 are the next steps up.
Frequently asked questions
How many concurrent viewers can this handle for streaming?
For pure passthrough (no transcoding), a 2× E5-2690 v3 box with 10 Gbit port handles ~1,500 concurrent 5 Mbps HD streams. With hardware-accelerated transcode + NVENC in GPU-add config, 2-3× that.
Does it support Intel VT-x / VT-d?
Yes. Full VT-x (virtualization) and VT-d (I/O passthrough) enabled. Suitable for KVM, VMware, Xen, Proxmox and container platforms.
What OS versions are officially supported?
Debian 11/12, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04, CentOS 7/9, AlmaLinux 8/9, Rocky Linux 8/9, Windows Server 2019/2022, FreeBSD 13/14. Custom ISO on request.