VDS hosting in India: dedicated CPU cores, never shared

What a VDS is

A VDS (virtual dedicated server) is a KVM virtual machine whose CPU cores are not shared. It looks and behaves like a VPS: your own kernel, full root or Administrator access, NVMe storage. The difference is underneath.

On a KVM VPS, you get your own vCPU allocation and RAM is never oversold, but those vCPUs are scheduled by the hypervisor onto physical cores that other instances also use. Most of the time you will not notice. When a neighbour is busy at the same moment you are, you can.

On a VDS, physical cores are pinned to your instance alone. Nobody else is scheduled on them. The point is not extra peak speed; it is that your cores are available to you every minute of the day.

Why that matters

Websites are bursty. A page request uses the CPU for a few milliseconds and then waits on the database or the network. Shared scheduling suits that pattern well, which is why a VPS is the right home for most sites.

Some workloads are steady instead. A video encode, a CI build, a game server's tick loop or a reporting query will use a core flat out for minutes or hours. Those are the jobs where pinned cores show their value: run times stop varying and the server stops having "slow afternoons".

Windows Server is available too. A Windows VDS 4 is ₹4,499$51.13/mo and a Windows VDS 8 is ₹9,199$104.53/mo, with full RDP and Administrator access and the Windows Server licence included in the price. See Windows hosting for details.

Need a size between the two? Call +91 75994 50220 or email [email protected] and tell us the workload. Our data centres are Mumbai (BOM-1) and Delhi NCR (DEL-1); say which region you want in your enquiry. If you are unsure, the latency test shows which one is closer to your users.

VPS vs VDS vs dedicated server

Here is the honest comparison, using our own plans at the same core count. Pick the cheapest column that does the job.

Choose a VPS when

Your load is bursty: websites, APIs, WordPress or WooCommerce, staging servers, small databases. A VPS gives the most RAM and vCPU per rupee, and you can resize it in a reboot as you grow. Most people searching for a VDS actually need one of these, and the RAM guide is a better place to start than core counts.

Choose a VDS when

The CPU is busy for long stretches and you need it to behave the same every time. You get the predictability people buy bare metal for, at a fraction of the price: VDS 8 is ₹6,908$78.50/mo against ₹14,499$164.76/mo for DS-Entry.

Choose a dedicated server when

You need all of the RAM, all of the disk IOPS, a specific CPU feature, hardware-level compliance, or a licence that is tied to physical cores. If none of those apply, a VDS will usually do the same job. See dedicated servers if they do.

Who needs a VDS, and who does not

Good fits

• Game servers. Minecraft's tick loop is largely single-threaded, so a steady core matters more than a large number of cores. Pinned cores hold tick rate better than a bigger shared instance at the same price. More on our Minecraft hosting page.
• CI runners and build servers. Compiles and test suites run every core flat out. On pinned cores, a build that takes eight minutes takes eight minutes every time.
• Databases and reporting. Long analytical queries, a busy MSSQL, or a reporting server that runs heavy jobs through the day.
• Video transcoding. Encoding saturates the CPU for the length of the file.
• Heavy cron work, ERP and Tally deployments. Steady, all-day workloads where users notice when things slow down.

Probably not you

• Most websites. A business site, a blog or a small shop spends most of its time idle. A ₹674$7.66/mo or ₹1,348$15.32/mo VPS will serve it well, and shared hosting may be enough. The VPS vs shared hosting guide helps you decide.
• Memory-bound workloads. If your server runs out of RAM before it runs out of CPU, pinned cores will not help. The 16 vCPU / 32 GB VPS Power plan at ₹5,017$57.01/mo may suit you better.
• Anything you have not measured. Run it on a VPS first. If CPU steal or uneven run times show up in your monitoring, move to a VDS. Tell us what you see and we will tell you whether a VDS will help.

If you are not sure, describe the workload on +91 75994 50220. If a VPS does the job, we will tell you so.