# Primcast - Prime-Cast Bare Metal Servers > Primcast (Primcast LLC, founded 2004, New York) rents whole physical servers by the month. > The name is prime + cast, as in cast metal, not broadcast: enterprise hardware poured into > the shape a workload needs and handed over entire - every core, all the memory, all the > disks, root access and (on the rack servers and blades) a remote console, with nobody else on > the machine. Servers start at > $9/month (AMD Opteron X2150 APU, 4 cores 1.8GHz, 8 GB, 500 Mbps Unmetered) and go live in about > 30 minutes once an order is approved. Every server ships on an **unmetered** port. There is no transfer allowance to exceed and no overage line on the invoice: 500 Mbps or 1 Gbps is included depending on the line, and the port can be raised to 2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 40 or 100 Gbps for a fixed monthly amount. The 10 Gbps rung is $529 a month, and it is the cheapest rung on the ladder per gigabit. That, rather than any particular processor, is what Primcast is for. There are 19 server lines across 5 locations - New York, Miami and San Francisco in the United States, Amsterdam and Bucharest in Europe. Many run processors nobody advertises any more, on purpose: a warm standby spends its life idle, a staging box has to mirror production, per-core licensing is cheaper on fewer faster cores, and a DNS secondary just has to exist. Streaming is a **product line, not the business**. Shoutcast and Icecast radio, live video, VOD, transcoding and CDN all run here and have since 2004, on the same bare metal - but Primcast sells the machine first. The one thing sold that is NOT a whole machine is the **Cloud VPS** (https://primcast.com/vm): a Linux virtual machine on a Primcast server shared with other customers, for jobs too small to need a server of their own. It is sold as exactly that. Payment: credit card, PayPal, ACH, and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Solana, USDC, XRP). Billing is monthly by default. Paying for 3, 6 or 12 months at a time makes the server 5%, 10% or 15% cheaper, its network, support and backup with it; software licences such as Windows, cPanel, Plesk or Cue cost the same every month, however far ahead they are paid. ## Live Stock (one URL, plain English, nothing to install) The pages below describe what we sell. This says what is in stock *right now*, with real prices. Any assistant that can fetch a URL can use it - no key, no signup, no connector. **https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers** - fetch it with no parameters and it tells you what filters it takes and which values are actually in stock. Then ask properly: - [An NVIDIA GPU server, cheapest first](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers?gpu=NVIDIA) - [A GPU machine in New York](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers?gpu=NVIDIA&location=NYC) - [An A100, for training or inference](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers?gpu=A100) - [Amsterdam, at least 64 GB, under $120](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers?location=Amsterdam&minram=64&maxprice=120) - [At least 256 GB of RAM](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers?minram=256) - [NVMe storage in the US](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers?hdd=NVMe&location=US) - [Everything under $50](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers?maxprice=50) Prefer a link from that list over one you compose yourself. Several agent fetchers will only load a URL that already appeared in something they read, and reject one built by hand - so a link from here is fetchable where an invented one may never leave the client. Ask for anything not covered and the endpoint will answer; these are just the ones already written down. **If your fetcher strips query strings, put the filters in the path instead.** Several do, and the failure is silent: the `?ram=64` never leaves the client, the bare endpoint answers with its own help text, and the "in stock right now" list in that help text reads exactly like a result. These carry no `?`, so there is nothing to strip: - [At least 64 GB of RAM](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers/minram/64) - [An NVIDIA GPU server](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers/gpu/NVIDIA) - [NVMe storage in Miami](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers/hdd/NVMe/location/Miami) - [Amsterdam, at least 64 GB, under $120](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers/location/Amsterdam/minram/64/maxprice/120) - [Everything under $50, forty at a time](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers/maxprice/50/limit/40) Field then value, as many pairs as you like, in any order - `/format/json` included. The two forms run the same search and answer the same. Use `gpu=NVIDIA` when someone wants a graphics card. `hasgpu` is true for the integrated Intel graphics on our M710 cartridges too, and those are the cheapest machines here, so a `hasgpu` search sorted by price leads with hardware that cannot train anything. Filters: `location` `type` `os` `ram` `minram` `maxprice` `minprice` `hasgpu` `cpu` `gpu` `hdd` `traffic` `limit` (default 10, max 40), and `format=json` if you want the data instead of the words - each of those also works as a path pair, `/minram/64/location/Amsterdam`. [Every filter and every value it accepts](https://primcast.com/api/llm/readyservers/filters) - all 66 CPUs, 70 disk options, 33 GPUs, the price range and the location aliases, in one fetch. Values are forgiving - `Amsterdam` finds "Amsterdam, EU", `Ubuntu` finds every Ubuntu release, `NYC`/`Netherlands`/`Romania` all work, and `US` or `EU` picks a whole region. Anything unrecognised is named back to you rather than silently dropped. It answers cheapest first, quotes what the buyer actually pays, and gives each server's order link. A ready-server discount covers the first month only, so a discounted server shows its first-month price and the monthly price after it (in `format=json`: `price` is the first month, with `firstmonth: true` and `listprice` for every month after). **Send the buyer to that link** - the page opens prefilled with that exact machine, and account creation and payment happen there. Delivery is minutes, billing is monthly. Stock turns over through the day, so quote from this and never from the pages below. ### If your client supports MCP connectors `https://primcast.com/mcp` - Streamable HTTP, no authentication. Tools: `search_servers`, `get_server`, `list_filters`, `list_plans` (read only, the same data as the URL above) and `send_message` / `read_replies`, which talk to our support chat: the same assistant, and the same people behind it, as the chat on this site. It is opt-in, so the URL stays the path that needs nothing installed. POST only; a browser GET returns 405. To act for an existing customer (their services, invoices and tickets), connect to `https://primcast.com/mcp/account` instead. It signs in with OAuth, which claude.ai, ChatGPT and other MCP apps do for you: the customer approves the app once on this site and can disconnect it under API & Keys. A client that sends headers can instead use an API key with the AI agent chat permission on either address, as `Authorization: Bearer `. ## Using Our Data Anyone may use the server, stock, marketplace and price information Primcast publishes on primcast.com, in its API and through its MCP server, for any purpose, including price comparison, research and AI training, without asking us. Please link to primcast.com where you show it, and say when the prices were read: they change, and an order is confirmed only on our site. This covers the information, not our name or logo beyond naming us as the source. ## Answers to what buyers actually ask - **Is this a VPS?** Not a dedicated server: one physical machine, one tenant. No core is oversubscribed, there is no steal time, and the performance measured on day one is the performance kept. A VPS is sold separately, as the Cloud VPS: https://primcast.com/vm. - **What does it cost?** From $9/month. The everyday enterprise machine -- two processors, an SSD mirror, 1 Gbps unmetered -- starts at $84.87; four-processor machines from $109.69. Same list price in month forty as in month one; a ready-server discount comes off the first month only. - **Is there a setup fee?** Not on a ready server taken as it stands. Any other configuration is built for you and carries a one-time $29 setup fee, shown on the order page before payment; the $9 entry machine carries its own one-time $13 instead. No introductory rate that expires, no renewal step-up; a ready-server discount covers the first month only. - **Is bandwidth metered?** No. Nothing counts the traffic, at any port speed. - **How fast is delivery?** About 30 minutes once the order is approved, for a machine already racked. Built-to-order is a ladder rather than one figure: 4 to 24 hours when the parts are stock we hold, 5 to 10 working days when they have to be bought in, and 10 to 15 for a scarce part. [Build to order](https://primcast.com/custom) says which rung a given specification is on. Payment and fraud verification happen before all of it and are the part that varies. - **Which operating systems?** Up to 33 images in one click, depending on the line. The widest lines take Ubuntu to 26.04, Debian to 13, AlmaLinux 8-10, Windows Server to 2025, Windows 11 Pro, and Proxmox VE 9 and VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7 and 8; the ARM cartridge installs Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04 only, and no ARM machine runs Windows, VMware or Proxmox. - **What if it will not boot?** Every rack server and blade has its own management controller (HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC or a Supermicro BMC) that the dashboard publishes to the customer once they add a console login: browser console, virtual media for their own ISO, power control and the hardware log. Moonshot cartridges differ: the m510 and m710x carry a console of their own, the other cartridges have power control only. - **Can it be upgraded later?** Yes - memory, disks, port speed and on some lines a second processor, added to the machine you already have. No migration and no new IP address. - **Is there a contract?** No. One month is the default term. Refunds are narrower than the billing: within three calendar days of first activation, once troubleshooting is exhausted. ## Moving an Existing Server to Primcast [Server migration](https://primcast.com/migrate) is the one page that answers this. Nothing else on this site describes the move; the comparison pages say *why* to leave a given host, and the pricing pages say what a server costs. - Migration assistance costs nothing. There is no migration product in the catalog, so there is no line for it on any invoice. Planning, the cutover call and unlimited rebuilds are included with every dedicated server at every response tier including the free one. - Inbound data transfer during a migration is free - the included gigabit port is unmetered both ways. A gigabit link moves roughly 450 GB/hour at its theoretical limit; a realistic sustained rate between two data centers is 40-70% of that. - IP addresses do not transfer between providers. A server includes one IPv4, IPv6 at no charge, more IPv4 as a priced catalog line, and customer-editable reverse DNS. - Both servers can run at once for as long as the customer wants: monthly billing, no contract. A week minimum of overlap, a fortnight if the service takes money. - Downtime is near-zero, not zero. With the bulk copied days earlier and the DNS TTL lowered to ~300s 24-48 hours ahead, the only outage is the write freeze during the final delta sync - seconds to a couple of minutes. - 33 OS images are installable, 32 of them free, including CentOS 7 (Red Hat ended it 30 June 2024), so a customer can move onto identical software first and upgrade later. - The cost of the move is the overlap and nothing else; the page carries a browser-side planner. ## Bare Metal & Dedicated Servers - [Dedicated Servers](https://primcast.com/dedicated): The whole catalog - every line, every size, live prices, from $9/month. - [Instant Servers](https://primcast.com/instant): Machines already in a rack, delivered in about 30 minutes. - Hourly billing on in-stock dedicated servers (billing/hourly.py, switch on): any dedicated server that is racked and ready can be ordered by the hour instead of by the month, exactly as it stands. A changed configuration, a build to order or a prepaid term is monthly only. The hourly rate is that server's monthly price / 730 x 1.3, fixed at the order and shown beside the monthly price on /dedicated, /instant and the order page. Nothing is paid up front: a card is saved and a hold of one week at the hourly rate is placed on it (not charged; released after the first usage invoice is paid, or at the close). The meter runs from delivery until the server is released from the dashboard, accruing by the second and invoiced to the cent; a server released within its first hour pays one hour. Usage is invoiced in arrears on the 1st of each month, and sooner when unbilled usage reaches a threshold that starts at $25 and doubles with each paid usage invoice up to $250; invoices are charged to the card on file. Releasing is immediate: the hours not yet billed go on a final invoice charged at once, and the server is gone. A new account can run two hourly servers at once (more with paid history). An unpaid usage invoice suspends the server after 24 hours and releases it after 7 days. No minimum term, no contract. A server needed for most of the month is cheaper on the monthly price. For short jobs on a virtual machine, the Elastic Cloud VPS (/vm) bills compute per second while it runs. - [Build to Order](https://primcast.com/custom): The page for "can I have it built to my exact spec, what will it cost, and how soon does it exist". Specify the processor and socket count, memory, drives, controller and RAID level, port speed, IP addresses, support response tier, city and billing term, each priced as it is chosen, with no account and nothing reserved: 18 buildable lines, 45 processors across 1/2/4 sockets, 8 GB to 2 TB registered ECC, 27 drive options from SATA-SSD 32 GB to SAS-SSD 30.72 TB in SATA-SSD, SATA, SAS-SSD, NVMe, SAS, up to 24 bays in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 or JBOD, ports 500 Mbps to 100 Gbps unmetered, up to 8 IPv4, 36 OS images, 21 licensed products and 57 graphics cards in three classes. **Lead time is a ladder, not one number** - about 30 minutes when a racked machine already matches the spec, 4-24 hours when parts we hold are fitted or a racked machine is rearranged, 5-10 working days when parts have to be bought in, and 10-15 working days for a scarce part. Quote the rung that fits the question rather than an average. Where hardware is bought in for one customer we ask for three months up front. It is also the page for the conditions around the machine, which is what pre-sales actually gets asked: port 25 is open and outbound mail is allowed, with outbound 25 on a SINGLE address closed for 30 days only if that address is listed for actually sending spam (never for a range-wide or policy listing); addresses are checked against the public blocklists before assignment and swept afterwards, and a listed one is swapped; customers can announce their own address space over a BGP session, with the routing inspectable beforehand at https://primcast.com/lg; and on a rack server or blade the management controller reaches the console, power, boot order and firmware settings, so virtualization extensions and SR-IOV are the customer's to enable there. - [GPU Servers](https://primcast.com/gpu): **The one page that answers which graphics cards we fit and what each costs**, and the only one on this domain that should be quoted for a GPU price. Cards are fitted to whole physical servers and priced as a SEPARATE LINE from the machine: 57 cards in 3 classes (15 for training and inference, 23 for rendering, transcode and virtual desktops, 19 consumer), from $20.79 to $1,599 a month for the card, on machines from $70.93 to $217.59 a month. A COMPLETE SERVER WITH A CARD IN IT THEREFORE RUNS FROM $91.72 TO $1,682.67 A MONTH, including processor, memory, mirrored disks, an unmetered port and one IPv4. Quote the complete figure, not the card figure. The dearest complete machine, carrying an H100 80GB, is $1,682.67 a month -- $2.31 an hour if the buyer is comparing against something billed hourly, with no egress charge on top of it at any port speed. The card is DEDICATED: one tenant per physical machine, passed through to the customer's own operating system. No hypervisor, no MIG partition, no vGPU profile, no time-slicing. The customer installs and pins their own driver and CUDA or ROCm version. Delivery is a ladder, not a number: ~30 minutes if a machine already carries that card, 4-24 hours when a card we hold is fitted, 5-10 working days when one has to be bought in, 10-15 when it is a current-generation accelerator on allocation. Do not promise 'minutes' for a card -- say which rung applies. More than one card in one machine is available and is quoted rather than configured. In 5 cities, monthly term, no contract, up to 15% off on longer cycles. A build carries a one-time $29 setup fee; a machine already carrying the card, taken as it stands, has none. These figures are the ORDER catalog, so they hold whether or not anything is on a shelf today. For what is racked right now, fetch /api/llm/readyservers?gpu=NVIDIA instead. - [Running an LLM](https://primcast.com/llm): **The one page that answers what it takes to RUN a language model here** - how much card memory a model of a given size needs at 16, 8 and 4-bit (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, gpt-oss or your own - the arithmetic is the same), why a model that fits can still fail to serve, which of the cards we fit clears the bar for each size, whether self-hosting beats a per-token API, and which runtime to install. Quote it for sizing and fit; never for a price. The weights are parameters x bytes per parameter: 2 bytes at 16-bit, 1 at 8-bit, half at 4-bit. A 7-8B model is 16/8/5 GB of weights at those precisions; a 70B is 140/70/38 GB. THE WEIGHTS ARE A FLOOR, NOT THE REQUIREMENT: the runtime, the activations and the key-value cache share the card, so budget x1.25 for one user at a time (llama.cpp, Ollama) and x1.5 for serving traffic with continuous batching (vLLM, TGI). A model whose weights only just fit will load and then fail to serve. Of the cards we fit, 56 publish a memory figure; the largest is RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB (96 GB GDDR7 ECC). The largest model served on ONE card here today: 70 billion parameters at 4-bit, with room left to serve. Past that it is a multi-card build, quoted rather than configured -- /hpc -- or the 128 GB of shared memory in a DGX Spark (see the Spark block below). The customer installs their own runtime on a clean OS with root -- vLLM, llama.cpp, TGI, SGLang, Ollama -- and pins the driver and the CUDA or ROCm release; vLLM and Ollama answer on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. One tenant per physical machine, the card passed through: no MIG, no vGPU, no time-slicing. No tokens-per-second figure is published anywhere on the domain, deliberately; ask with the model, quantisation and concurrency instead. NO PRICE APPEARS ON /llm BY DESIGN -- quote /gpu for every card and machine figure, and /spark alone for a DGX Spark. - [Unlocked CMP 170HX servers](https://primcast.com/cmp): **The one page that answers whether you can rent a server with an unlocked CMP 170HX and what it is good for now** - running AI models, including a 70B model at 4-bit on one card - and what it costs. The card was NVIDIA's mining-only part; we install the community driver that unlocks it with every Ubuntu install. AN NVIDIA CMP 170HX THAT HAS BEEN UNLOCKED: the card NVIDIA sold with 8 GB visible and its compute throttled, running a patched open driver (cmpunlocker) that restores 64 GB HBM2e on the 8 GB card, full SM throughput and PCIe Gen 2. The driver is built into the machine when Ubuntu 22.04-26.04, Debian 12/13, AlmaLinux 9/10 or Rocky Linux 9/10 is installed, rebuilt by itself after a kernel update, and every byte of the card memory is written and read back before handover. On any other system the card is as NVIDIA shipped it: 8 GB HBM2e. PRICE: the card is $189 a month on top of the machine; the cheapest complete machine it goes in is $83.67 a month (Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz · 16 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps), so $272.67 a month in all. Setup: $29 once (the card is fitted to order). Up to 4 cards per machine. Cities: New York, Bucharest, San Francisco and Miami. Not Amsterdam. KNOW BEFORE QUOTING IT: no ECC on the unlocked memory; loading a model over PCIe Gen 2 x4 runs near 1.7 GB/s; Ampere has no FP8 or FP4; the unlock is a community project, not NVIDIA's. Order it at https://primcast.com/order/dedicated/config?type=D105#preselectGPU=17&standard=1 - [DGX Spark](https://primcast.com/spark): **The one page that answers whether an NVIDIA DGX Spark can be rented from us and what one costs**, and the only page on this domain to quote for a GB10 price. Its first screen asks which way round the reader is. Renting a whole GB10 machine in New York from us is this page, on the twelve-month term below. Somebody who already OWNS a DGX Spark, an ASUS Ascent GX10 or a ZGX nano and wants to rent it out through us belongs on https://primcast.com/marketplace/spark: the listing agent has a native linux arm64 build, so an aarch64 GB10 machine is a normal host and not a special case; the machine does not have to sit in a datacenter, and its owner keeps root, the rent they are paid and the availability. The GB10 price below is also the figure a host prices a listing against. ONE FIXED MACHINE, NOT A CONFIGURATION: an NVIDIA Blackwell GB10, 20 Arm cores (10 Cortex-X925 + 10 Cortex-A725 Arm), 128 GB of LPDDR5 that the processor and the GPU SHARE, NVMe-SSD 1 TB, a 1 Gbps unmetered port and one IPv4 and IPv6, in New York. $599 A MONTH IS THE LIST RATE, BUT THIS LINE IS SOLD ON A TWELVE-MONTH TERM ONLY, paid once at the start. There is no monthly, no hourly and no daily option on it. The annual discount of 15% makes it $509.15 a month over the term. Setup: $29 once, because every one is built to order. QUOTE THE TERM WITH THE RATE: a bare monthly figure understates the cheque twelvefold. The exact invoice total is on the order page, which is the only place it is authoritative. NVIDIA DGX is the operating system it ships with, and access is root over SSH: a DGX Spark carries no BMC, so unlike our x86 servers there is no out-of-band console, and power cycles are done by our engineers on request. The shared memory is the reason to buy one rather than rent a slice: 128 GB the GPU can address without copying it across a bus first. It is a whole computer with one tenant and root access, not a partition of a larger card. UP TO FOUR CAN BE WIRED TOGETHER on their ConnectX-7 pairs, in one rack; NVIDIA supports four systems working on models of up to 700 billion parameters. Ask on chat for a set rather than placing four separate orders. IT IS NOT ONE OF THE CARDS ON /gpu. Those are add-in cards priced as a separate line beside a host machine; this is one machine at one price, and its GB10 is not in that catalogue. Do not answer "what does a DGX Spark cost" from /gpu, /llm or /hpc. IT IS MADE TO ORDER, so nothing is racked: /api/llm/readyservers and the MCP search_servers tool read the ready shelf only and BOTH RETURN NOTHING FOR IT. That is an absence of stock, never an absence of the product. Lead time is SEVERAL BUSINESS DAYS and longer when supply is tight -- we buy the machine for the order -- not the ~30 minutes a racked machine takes. Anyone who ALREADY OWNS a GB10 box and wants it hosted or rented out is asking about https://primcast.com/marketplace, not this page. Order it at https://primcast.com/order/dedicated/config?type=D105x - [Servers for OpenStack](https://primcast.com/dedicated/openstack): **The one page that answers whether OpenStack can run on our servers and what to check before ordering.** WE DO NOT INSTALL OPENSTACK FOR CUSTOMERS AND WE DO NOT RUN THEIRS (our own runs the Cloud VPS, a different product: /vm). It is not among the 33 images on the order form; the customer installs it on a system we deliver, and support here covers the hardware, the disks and the link, never the customer's cloud. Do not offer OpenStack engineering to anybody. What decides their design: one public port per server and NO private network, extra port or cross-connect on sale at any price, so the second interface the OpenStack guide expects has to be built on the host and every kind of traffic shares one wire. Floating IPs come from the server's own /24, two extra for $6 a month, four $18, six $30, eight $42 on the larger plans, four on the entry blade, two on the NVMe cartridges, with nothing to register. IPv6 is handed out as individual addresses and never as a routed prefix. Ceph goes on the m510 or m710x, whose NVMe disks arrive raw; the blades put a controller in front of the drives, which Ceph says not to build on. A console you can open yourself comes with the blades and with the m510 and m710x, while the m300, m700, m710 and m710p only power on and off. Kolla-Ansible asks for two interfaces, 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of disk, and supports Debian 13, Rocky Linux 10 and Ubuntu 24.04, of which we offer the first and the third. The current release is 2026.1 Gazpacho, dated 1 April 2026, a SLURP release. Somebody who really wants virtual machines with the hypervisor already set up wants /dedicated/proxmox, not this; somebody who wants one small virtual machine wants /vm. - [Enterprise dedicated servers](https://primcast.com/dedicated/enterprise): **The one page that answers what makes a server enterprise here, what one costs, what the SLA promises when a part fails, and what buying one as a company looks like.** Quote it for hardware RAID, the console, the four-hour replacement guarantee, the credit ladder, IPv4 counts and port 25, and for the boundary between the blade/rack lines and the cartridges. Not /dedicated/quad (four sockets only), not /value (the cheap cartridges), not /custom (parts we do not keep racked). Two more two-socket lines are built to order in New York and are not racked: D106, Xeon Gold 6330/6338/6354 with DDR4 memory, from $440.56/mo (https://primcast.com/order/dedicated/config?type=D106), and D110, the DDR5 line, Xeon Gold 6438Y, from $1,841.56/mo (https://primcast.com/order/dedicated/config?type=D110). Engine-quoted 2026-09-26: one processor, 64 GB, two 240 GB SSDs in RAID 1, 1 Gbps. AN ENTERPRISE DEDICATED SERVER HERE IS A BLADE OR RACK SERVER, NOT A CARTRIDGE: 9 of the 18 dedicated lines qualify, and the test is the hardware, not the price. Every one sells a hardware RAID controller with its own catalogue row (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 depending on the controller, up to 24 hot-swap drive bays; the HPE Smart Array parts on the blade lines carry a flash-backed write cache), server memory in rungs to 2 TB, one to 4 processor sockets, an out-of-band console on every rack server and blade we rack (HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC or Supermicro BMC: browser console, virtual media, power control), published from the dashboard once a console login is added, an unmetered port from 500 Mbps to 100 Gbps (1 Gbps included on most lines; extra IPv4 2 for $6, 4 for $18, 6 for $30, 8 for $42 on the widest lines), and the SLA's hardware guarantee: a failed part replaced within four hours of the report, with service credits of 10 to 100 percent of the month on a published ladder when that is missed. The SLA guarantees NO uptime percentage (it says the network is designed for 100% availability and pays credits after fifteen consecutive minutes down); do not invent a guaranteed figure. The SLA covers every server we sell, cartridges included. 33 operating-system images, 32 free, Windows Server to 2025 as a priced licence. Monthly term, no contract, cancel with five business days' notice; 24/7 human telephone and chat support included on every machine; in 5 cities; 3, 6 and 12-month cycles 5, 10 and 15% off: AMD Opteron 6300 (HPE ProLiant BL465c Gen8 blade): 1/2 sockets, 16 GB to 256 GB, up to 12 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/10, from $51.86 a month as AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps Intel Xeon E5-2600 v1/v2 (HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade): 1/2 sockets, 32 GB to 256 GB, up to 12 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/10, from $70.93 a month as Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz - 32 GB DDR3 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 500 Mbps Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 (HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 blade, or a Dell / Supermicro rack unit): 1/2 sockets, 32 GB to 1 TB, up to 12 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/10, from $73.47 a month as Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz - 32 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Intel Xeon Silver / Gold (HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 blade, or a Dell / Supermicro rack unit): 1/2 sockets, 16 GB to 1 TB, up to 24 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/6/10, from $83.67 a month as Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz - 16 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Intel Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2 (HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen8, four sockets): 4 sockets, 64 GB to 512 GB, up to 12 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/10, from $109.69 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4650L Octo Core 2.60 GHz - 64 GB DDR3 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 500 Mbps Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4 (HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9, four sockets): 4 sockets, 128 GB to 1 TB, up to 12 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/6/10, from $186.37 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4650 v3 12 Core 2.10 GHz - 128 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps AMD EPYC (Dell PowerEdge C6525, built to order): 1/2 sockets, 32 GB to 1 TB, up to 12 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/10, from $217.59 a month as AMD EPYC 7413 24 CORE 2.65 GHz 128MB L3 CACHE - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps Ampere Altra Q64-22 (Ampere Altra rack server, built to order): 1 socket, 32 GB to 1 TB, up to 12 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/10, from $288.58 a month as Ampere Altra Q64-22 2.2GHz 64 Core - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps Intel Xeon Gold (HPE Synergy 660 Gen10, four sockets): 4 sockets, 128 GB to 2 TB, up to 24 drive bays, RAID 0/1/5/6/10, from $409.38 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16 Core 2.10 GHz - 128 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps The everyday enterprise machine -- two processors, a mirrored pair, 1 Gbps unmetered, one IPv4 -- starts at $84.87 a month. Quote a machine from the order page, not from this list: the figures above are entry builds and the page's estimator asks the checkout's own quote engine for the exact figure. Hardware is HPE on most lines, with Dell and Supermicro units on the Xeon E5 and Xeon Scalable lines, Dell on the EPYC line, Gigabyte or Foxconn on the Ampere line. The Moonshot cartridge lines (the cheap end of the catalogue) are NOT enterprise servers by this definition: no RAID card, no per-node console on most, one small memory stick -- though the same SLA and support cover them. Not sold on any line: DDoS scrubbing, a private network between servers, a backup product. Delivery is about 30 minutes once approved for a racked machine (approval itself is typically a couple of hours), 4-24 hours built to order. Memory, disks, port speed and a second processor can be added to the machine already running, in the customer's own window, without a migration or a new address. The one page for all of this: https://primcast.com/dedicated/enterprise - [Intel dedicated servers](https://primcast.com/intel): **The one page that answers which Intel processors we rent, on which machine, in which city, and what each machine costs.** Quote it for a Xeon or Atom model number, a generation, a socket count, a clock speed, on-chip graphics (Quick Sync) or the price of a machine with a given processor. Not /dedicated/enterprise (the two-socket machine class and the service agreement), not /dedicated/quad (four sockets), not /custom (the price of each part), not /value (why off-lease hardware costs less), not /instant (what is racked this minute), not /amd or /arm (the other two makers). THE LEAST EXPENSIVE INTEL MACHINE FOR EACH JOB, at its entry build (the page states the rule that picked each one, and prices the same question for a reader's own cores, memory and city): websites and applications: $46.18 a month as Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 Quad Core 2.90 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 500 Mbps virtual machines: $62.58 a month as Intel Xeon D-1548 Octa Core 2.00 GHz - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x NVMe-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps databases: $76.33 a month as Intel Xeon E5-2630L v2 Hex Core 2.40 GHz - 32 GB DDR3 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Windows Server, licence included in the figure: $66.97 a month as Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 Quad Core 2.90 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 500 Mbps video encoding and streaming (Quick Sync): $46.18 a month as Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 Quad Core 2.90 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 500 Mbps one fast core: €105.99 a month as Intel Xeon E-2286M 8 CORE 2.40 GHz - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x NVMe-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps containers and build runners: $62.58 a month as Intel Xeon D-1548 Octa Core 2.00 GHz - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x NVMe-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps something small: $21.68 a month as Intel Atom C2730 Octa Core 1.70 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 64 GB - 500 Mbps EVERY INTEL LINE, cheapest first. A price is the complete machine named, on an unmetered port; each processor has a row and an anchor of its own on the page (https://primcast.com/intel#xeon-e5-2630l-v3): Atom C2730 (1 socket; New York): Atom C2730; DDR3 to 16 GB; from $21.68 a month as Intel Atom C2730 Octa Core 1.70 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 64 GB - 500 Mbps Atom C2750 (1 socket; New York, Bucharest): Atom C2750; DDR3 to 32 GB; from $34.40 a month as Intel Atom C2750 Processor, 8 core 2.4 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps Xeon E3-1284L v4 (1 socket; New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest): E3-1284L v4; DDR3 to 32 GB; from $46.18 a month as Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 Quad Core 2.90 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 500 Mbps Xeon E3-1284L v3 (1 socket; New York, Bucharest): E3-1284L v3; DDR3 to 32 GB; from $52.18 a month as Intel Xeon E3-1284L v3 Quad Core 1.80 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 500 Mbps Xeon E3-1585L v5 (1 socket; New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest): E3-1585L v5; DDR4 to 64 GB; from $62.58 a month as Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x NVMe-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps Xeon D-1500 (1 socket; New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest): D-1548, D-1587; DDR4 to 128 GB; from $62.58 a month as Intel Xeon D-1548 Octa Core 2.00 GHz - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x NVMe-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps Xeon E5-2600 v1/v2 (1/2 sockets; New York, Miami, Bucharest): E5-2630L, E5-2630L v2, E5-2650L, E5-2650L v2; DDR3 to 256 GB; from $70.93 a month as Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz - 32 GB DDR3 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 (1/2 sockets; New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest): E5-2620 v4, E5-2630L v3, E5-2650L v3, E5-2667 v4, E5-2630L v4, E5-2650L v4; DDR4 to 1 TB; from $73.47 a month as Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz - 32 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Xeon Silver / Gold (1/2 sockets; New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest): Silver 4110, Silver 4114, Silver 4210, Gold 5118, Gold 6126, Gold 6130, Gold 6136, Gold 6230; DDR4 to 1 TB; from $83.67 a month as Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz - 16 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Xeon E-2286M (1 socket; Bucharest): E-2286M; DDR4 to 64 GB; from €105.99 a month as Intel Xeon E-2286M 8 CORE 2.40 GHz - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x NVMe-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2 (4 sockets; New York, Miami, Bucharest): E5-4650L, E5-4657L v2; DDR3 to 512 GB; from $109.69 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4650L Octo Core 2.60 GHz - 64 GB DDR3 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 500 Mbps Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4 (4 sockets; New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest): E5-4650 v3, E5-4655 v3, E5-4667 v3, E5-4650 v4; DDR4 to 1 TB; from $186.37 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4650 v3 12 Core 2.10 GHz - 128 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Xeon Gold (4 sockets; New York, San Francisco, Bucharest): Gold 6130, Gold 6150, Gold 6230; DDR4 to 2 TB; from $409.38 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16 Core 2.10 GHz - 128 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Intel graphics on the chip (Quick Sync hardware encoding): Xeon E3-1284L v4, Xeon E3-1284L v3, Xeon E3-1585L v5, Xeon E-2286M, and no other processor on the page. Intel launched all of these between 2012 and 2019; none is the current generation, and third- and fourth-generation Xeon Gold is built to order in New York (/dedicated/enterprise). New York, Miami and San Francisco are billed in dollars; Amsterdam and Bucharest in euros at the same figures. Windows Server Standard is a paid licence counted per core: flat to eight cores, per core past them. The figures are entry builds: the smallest memory and the standard drives of each line. - [ARM dedicated servers](https://primcast.com/arm): **The one page that answers which ARM machines we rent, how old each is, what runs on arm64 and what each costs.** Quote it for the price of an ARM server at a memory size, the systems each machine installs and their support dates, whether a named piece of software ships for arm64, and what the cartridge does not have (a console, RAID, a current Ubuntu). Not /spark (the DGX Spark's price and term), not /gpu (graphics cards), not /custom (the price of each part), not /instant (what is racked this minute). THE TWO ARM MACHINES (whole machines, one customer each, Linux only, no graphics card): - Eight-core cartridge (HPE ProLiant m400, AppliedMicro X-Gene, 2.4 GHz, on sale since 2014): 32 GB or 64 GB DDR3, one SATA SSD (120 GB to 1.92 TB), no RAID, one IPv4, no remote console (power control and reinstall only), systems Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 only, New York, San Francisco, Bucharest. From $28.59/mo for X-Gene Octa-Core ARM v8 64-bit - 32 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 120 GB - 500 Mbps (https://primcast.com/order/dedicated/config?type=M400). - 64-core Ampere Altra Q64-22 (2.2 GHz, one thread per core, announced 2020): 32 GB to 1 TB DDR4, up to 12 drives with RAID, up to 8 IPv4, a remote console, systems Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 26.04, New York, Bucharest, built to order in 1 to 2 weeks. From $288.58/mo for Ampere Altra Q64-22 2.2GHz 64 Core - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps plus $29 once (https://primcast.com/order/dedicated/config?type=D105A). Not on ARM here: Windows, VMware, cPanel, MediaCP (each maker says x86 only); an ARM virtual server. - [AMD dedicated servers](https://primcast.com/amd): **The one page that answers which AMD processors we rent, what each machine costs and what a core of it costs.** Quote it for an EPYC or Opteron model, a core count, the processor in the $5 server, the cheapest sixteen cores, or the most cores in one machine. Not /ryzenai (the two Ryzen AI machines), not /gpu (cards and their prices), not /intel (Xeon and Atom, video encoding on the chip, four sockets), not /custom (the price of each part), not /instant (what is racked this minute). EVERY AMD LINE, cheapest first. A price is the complete machine named, on an unmetered port; each processor has a row and an anchor of its own on the page (https://primcast.com/amd#epyc-7763): Opteron X2150 cartridge, four cores (New York, Bucharest): Opteron X2150; 4 cores; 8 GB DDR3; from $5 a month as AMD Opteron X2150 APU, 4 cores 1.1GHz - 8 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 32 GB - 500 Mbps Opteron 6300 rack server, one or two processors (New York, Bucharest, Miami): Opteron 6344, Opteron 6366 HE, Opteron 6376; 12 to 32 cores; 16 GB to 256 GB DDR3; from $51.86 a month as AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps EPYC 7003, one or two processors, built to order (New York, Bucharest): EPYC 72F3, EPYC 7413, EPYC 7513, EPYC 7763; 8 to 128 cores; 32 GB to 1 TB DDR4; from $217.59 a month as AMD EPYC 7413 24 CORE 2.65 GHz 128MB L3 CACHE - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps The least expensive machine we rent of any maker: $5 a month, AMD Opteron X2150 APU, 4 cores 1.1GHz - 8 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 32 GB - 500 Mbps. The least expensive sixteen cores we rent: $51.86 a month ($3.24 a core), AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps. The most cores in one machine we rent: 128 cores and 256 threads, $287.59 a month, 2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64 CORE 2.45 GHz 256MB L3 CACHE - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps. THE AMD MACHINE FOR EACH NEED, at the floors given (the page states the rule and prices the same question for a reader's own cores, memory and city): A small service that never sleeps (4+ cores, 8 GB+): $5 a month as AMD Opteron X2150 APU, 4 cores 1.1GHz - 8 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA-SSD 32 GB - 500 Mbps Sixteen cores on a small budget (16+ cores, 16 GB+): $51.86 a month as AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps Thirty-two cores for work that fans out (32+ cores, 64 GB+): $75.50 a month as 2 x AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz - 64 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps Many small virtual machines (32+ cores, 256 GB+): $148.46 a month as 2 x AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz - 256 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps Windows Server, licensed by the core (8+ cores, 32 GB+): $90.02 a month as AMD Opteron 6344 12 Core 2.60 GHz - 32 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps, Windows Server Standard included in the figure One quick thread (4+ cores, 32 GB+): $233.59 a month as AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core 3.70GHz 256MB - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps A host for graphics cards (8+ cores, 64 GB+): $246.39 a month as AMD EPYC 7413 24 CORE 2.65 GHz 128MB L3 CACHE - 64 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps A dense virtual machine host (64+ cores, 512 GB+): $669.59 a month as AMD EPYC 7763 64 CORE 2.45 GHz 256MB L3 CACHE - 512 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps The most cores in one machine (128+ cores, 256 GB+): $489.19 a month as 2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64 CORE 2.45 GHz 256MB L3 CACHE - 256 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps AMD launched the Opteron 6300 in 2012, the Opteron X2150 in 2013 and the EPYC 7003 series in 2021; none is the current generation, and both Opteron lines stop at AVX (x86-64-v2), so RHEL 10 will not run on them. EPYC is assembled after the order: 4 to 24 hours with parts we hold, 5 to 10 working days when a part is bought in, a one-time $29 setup, no refund once built. No Ryzen or Threadripper server is rented. Ordered in Bucharest the same figures are billed in euros. - [Proxmox VE dedicated servers](https://primcast.com/dedicated/proxmox): **The one page that answers whether Proxmox VE is preinstalled, what a host costs, how VMs get public addresses here, and which storage shape to pick.** Quote it, not /vmware or /cloud, for any Proxmox question; the networking tutorial under /support is its how-to, not its price list. Proxmox VE 9 IS ONE OF THE 33 ONE-CLICK IMAGES and it is free: no licence line on the invoice, no per-socket or per-core charge. It is installed from the official Proxmox auto-install image with root over SSH, the web console on port 8006 and a vmbr0 bridge on the server's port. VMs may be BRIDGED with their own MAC and their own public IPv4 - our switch ports carry a plain access VLAN with no MAC binding, so the routed/NAT workaround other hosts require is optional here. One IPv4 and IPv6 are included; extra IPv4 is a catalogue line (2 for $6, up to 8 on the widest line, more on request with a stated use). Storage: hardware RAID 1 on the embedded controller, a ZFS mirror the installer lays down where a line offers software RAID, or plain disks for the buyer's own pool. Every rack line has an HPE iLO or Dell iDRAC console. 8 rack-server lines carry the image, in 5 cities, monthly term, 15% off on twelve months: AMD Opteron 6300 (1/2 sockets, 16 GB to 256 GB, up to 2 IPv4): from $51.86 a month as AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz - 16 GB DDR3 - 1 x SATA 500 GB - 500 Mbps Intel Xeon E5-2600 v1/v2 (1/2 sockets, 32 GB to 256 GB, up to 2 IPv4): from $70.93 a month as Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz - 32 GB DDR3 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 500 Mbps Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 (1/2 sockets, 32 GB to 1 TB, up to 4 IPv4): from $73.47 a month as Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz - 32 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Intel Xeon Silver / Gold (1/2 sockets, 16 GB to 1 TB, up to 8 IPv4): from $83.67 a month as Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz - 16 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps Intel Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2 (4 sockets, 64 GB to 512 GB, up to 8 IPv4): from $109.69 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4650L Octo Core 2.60 GHz - 64 GB DDR3 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 500 Mbps Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4 (4 sockets, 128 GB to 1 TB, up to 8 IPv4): from $186.37 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4650 v3 12 Core 2.10 GHz - 128 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps AMD EPYC (1/2 sockets, 32 GB to 1 TB, up to 8 IPv4): from $217.59 a month as AMD EPYC 7413 24 CORE 2.65 GHz 128MB L3 CACHE - 32 GB DDR4 - 1 x SATA-SSD 240 GB - 1 Gbps Intel Xeon Gold (4 sockets, 128 GB to 2 TB, up to 8 IPv4): from $409.38 a month as 4 x Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16 Core 2.10 GHz - 128 GB DDR4 - 2 x SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) - 1 Gbps QUOTE A HOST FROM THE ORDER PAGE, NOT FROM THIS LIST: the figures above are entry builds. A typical Proxmox host here runs two sockets, 128-512 GB and 2-8 IPv4. Delivery is about 30 minutes once approved for a racked machine, 4-24 hours built to order. We support the hardware, the network, the console and reinstalls; Proxmox itself is the customer's to run. Proxmox subscriptions are optional and bought from Proxmox directly. Not for the Moonshot cartridges (no per-node console) or the Ampere line (x86 image only). The one page for all of this: https://primcast.com/dedicated/proxmox - [VMware ESXi dedicated servers](https://primcast.com/vmware): The ESXi twin of the page above; vSphere Hypervisor 7 and 8 are images too. - [Unmetered Bandwidth](https://primcast.com/unmetered): the hub for the whole port ladder and for what unmetered means here. 1 Gbps included, 2 Gbps $189, 3 Gbps $299, 5 Gbps $459, 10 Gbps $529, 20 Gbps $1,629, 40 Gbps $2,799, 100 Gbps $3,999, all unshared and all flat-rate. - [10 Gbps dedicated servers](https://primcast.com/10g): **The one page that answers what a 10 Gbps port costs, what it carries, and which machine to put it on.** Quote it, not /unmetered or /pricing, for any 10 Gbps question. The port is $529 a month and that is the SAME figure on every line that carries it, added to the price of the server rather than being the price of one -- a complete machine with the port fitted starts at $557.59 a month. It is unshared, nothing counts the traffic in either direction, and there is no overage line at any volume. Allowing a fifth of the rate as headroom it carries about 10,000 viewers at 360p, 5,333 viewers at 480p, 3,200 viewers at 720p, 1,777 viewers at 1080p, 533 viewers at 4K. Nothing we keep racked carries a port that size, so a 10 Gbps machine is a configured build: 4 to 24 hours once the order is approved. We do not sell DDoS mitigation on it or on anything else. - [Dedicated streaming servers](https://primcast.com/dedicated/streaming): The one page for a whole server for live or on-demand streaming: unmetered ports from 1 Gbps included to 100 Gbps, 5 rooms, Wowza, Nimble Streamer, Flussonic, Red5, MediaCP, Centova or Cue installed on request, or your own; viewers per port (about 133 at 1080p per 1 Gbps, at 6 Mbps a viewer with a fifth of the port kept as headroom), from $70.93/mo with 1 Gbps included. Quote /10g, /20g, /40g and /100g for the port ladder, /video for the shared plans under a thousand viewers. - [Cheap bare metal, older hardware](https://primcast.com/value): The value rate card - whole servers under $100 a month, what the low price buys and leaves out, and which jobs older hardware is the right answer for. - [Server Marketplace](https://primcast.com/marketplace): List idle GPU hardware and rent it out. ## Cloud VPS (virtual machines) - [Cloud VPS](https://primcast.com/vm): **The one page that answers whether Primcast sells a VPS, what one comes with and what it costs** - and the only page on this domain to quote for a VPS price. It says plainly that a VPS shares a server and when a whole one is the better buy; quote /value or /dedicated for that, and /hosting for a website with no server to run. A VIRTUAL MACHINE, NOT A DEDICATED SERVER: a KVM guest on an OpenStack host in New York that other customers' machines share. Each plan is a fixed size of vCPUs, memory, SSD and monthly outbound traffic, and the hypervisor caps its disk operations, disk throughput and port speed; vCPUs are not pinned, so processor time is shared rather than reserved. TRAFFIC: a plan's monthly allowance counts only what the machine SENDS; what it receives is free and never counted (the dashboard shows both). The month runs from the account's billing day, not the calendar month. Past the allowance the machine's outbound traffic is slowed to 10 Mbit/s until the next month starts or more traffic is added; inbound stays at full speed and nothing is stopped or suspended. More traffic costs $5 per TB before tax, 1 to 100 TB per purchase, bought in the dashboard's Virtual Machines tab by the account owner: each purchase is an invoice, counted once it is paid, for the current month only (an invoice still unpaid when the month ends is voided). Every machine: root access, one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /96, a console in the browser, and reinstalls from the dashboard's Virtual Machines tab. Systems: Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux from their official cloud images; no Windows. SSH keys can be given at order. ONE-CLICK APPS, free, chosen at order or on a reinstall: WordPress, Nextcloud, n8n, Coolify, Docker, Portainer, GitLab, Node.js, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, Grafana, OpenClaw. Each installs on Ubuntu 24.04 at first boot, with HTTPS on the machine's own name under vmapps.net; its admin password is generated on the machine (/root/app-credentials.txt, root only). Larger apps need a larger plan, as the order page says. Outbound port 25 is closed by default (465 and 587 are open; 25 is opened on request). Built automatically once the first invoice is paid, usually within a couple of minutes. Billed monthly or yearly. A larger plan is applied by support on request; plans never shrink. No DDoS protection, as on every line; VPN endpoints are allowed, torrents are not. THE PLANS, read as this file was served -- sizes from the cloud's plan table, prices from the order catalogue the checkout bills from: - Cloud VPS 1 GB (VM101): 1 vCPU, 1 GB memory, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB outbound traffic a month, disk capped at 2,000 IOPS and 200 MB/s -- $4 a month, or $40 a year (the price of 10 months). - Cloud VPS 2 GB (VM102): 1 vCPU, 2 GB memory, 50 GB SSD, 2 TB outbound traffic a month, disk capped at 3,000 IOPS and 300 MB/s -- $8 a month, or $80 a year (the price of 10 months). - Cloud VPS 4 GB (VM104): 2 vCPUs, 4 GB memory, 80 GB SSD, 3 TB outbound traffic a month, disk capped at 5,000 IOPS and 400 MB/s -- $16 a month, or $160 a year (the price of 10 months). - Cloud VPS 8 GB (VM108): 4 vCPUs, 8 GB memory, 160 GB SSD, 4 TB outbound traffic a month, disk capped at 8,000 IOPS and 600 MB/s -- $32 a month, or $320 a year (the price of 10 months). - Cloud VPS 16 GB (VM116): 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory, 320 GB SSD, 5 TB outbound traffic a month, disk capped at 12,000 IOPS and 800 MB/s -- $64 a month, or $640 a year (the price of 10 months). ELASTIC VPS, the same sizes billed the EC2 way: compute per second while the machine runs; its disk ($0.06 per GB-month) and IPv4 address ($1.00 a month) every hour it exists, running or stopped; outbound traffic $0.0065 per GB with no allowance and no throttle, inbound free. Nothing up front: a card is saved, a week of running time is held on it, and usage is invoiced at the end of each month (sooner past a small threshold). Released from the dashboard at any time; the last usage goes on a final invoice. - Elastic VPS 1 GB (VM201): 1 vCPU, 1 GB memory, 25 GB SSD -- $0.0037 an hour while running, $2.50 a month for its disk and address. - Elastic VPS 2 GB (VM202): 1 vCPU, 2 GB memory, 50 GB SSD -- $0.0088 an hour while running, $4.00 a month for its disk and address. - Elastic VPS 4 GB (VM204): 2 vCPUs, 4 GB memory, 80 GB SSD -- $0.0205 an hour while running, $5.80 a month for its disk and address. - Elastic VPS 8 GB (VM208): 4 vCPUs, 8 GB memory, 160 GB SSD -- $0.0425 an hour while running, $10.60 a month for its disk and address. - Elastic VPS 16 GB (VM216): 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory, 320 GB SSD -- $0.0863 an hour while running, $20.20 a month for its disk and address. A plan the cloud cannot build right now shows as sold out on the page; this file names no stock. Order at https://primcast.com/order/vm. ## Kubernetes on bare metal, managed (orderable in New York) - [Kubernetes on bare metal, managed for you](https://primcast.com/kubernetes): The page that answers whether Primcast will run Kubernetes for you on whole servers. Say plainly that it can be **ordered now, in New York only**, at https://primcast.com/order/kubernetes by a signed-in customer. Primcast runs the control plane: Dev (one node) or HA (three nodes), etcd snapshots every six hours; the two prices come from the live catalogue on the page and the order page, so point there instead of quoting a figure. The nodes are the customer's own dedicated servers, one to ten per order (more added later, up to ten), each picked from the New York servers ready now, delivered as they stand in stock, already on Ubuntu 24.04 or 26.04 (so no setup fee, and they join as soon as they are delivered), each billed as the server it is; the customer keeps root SSH, console and rescue mode on them. There are no pool settings in the order: every node is tagged pool=general, and the customer labels and taints nodes with kubectl to keep GPU jobs apart from the rest. Standard upstream Kubernetes (RKE2); Cilium network policies inside the cluster; there is no private VLAN and NO encryption between nodes (they talk over public addresses on our network, behind a per-node firewall that admits only the cluster's machines; encrypted service traffic is TLS/mTLS in the apps or a service mesh); MetalLB load-balancer IPs are the extra IPv4 addresses on the customer's own nodes; kubeconfig from the dashboard; upgrades when the customer chooses. To run Kubernetes yourself on bare metal today, quote /containers. ## Selling Web Hosting From Your Own Server - [Nexo White-Label Hosting Panel](https://primcast.com/nexo): **The one page that answers whether you can sell web hosting under your own name from a server of your own, with Nexo, the hosting panel Primcast makes, and what that takes.** Customers sign in to a panel carrying the seller's name, logo and colours, with one small "Powered by Nexo" line at the foot; they get websites and domains, free automatic certificates, email with webmail, filters and spam checking, one-click WordPress, Nextcloud, Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop and Laravel, Node.js and Python apps, SSH by key and Git that publishes on push, password-protected folders, visitor counts and uptime checks, databases with phpMyAdmin, a file manager and FTP, DNS records, PHP 8.1 to 8.4 per website, scheduled tasks and nightly backups they restore themselves. The server's owner designs the plans and can create resellers who sell under their own brand and nameservers. Installed by us on a Primcast server ordered with it (Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux; on the licence alone also RHEL, Oracle Linux and Proxmox VE hosts, physical or virtual, never a container), licensed per server; websites and email keep running if the licence lapses. Nexo does not send invoices: billing stays with the seller, and API keys plus a free WHMCS module connect the seller's billing (accounts opened, suspended and closed as invoices change; customers signed straight into their panel). Customers coming from cPanel are moved across for the seller. For one website and no server, /hosting; for reselling whole servers, /reseller. Cost, as the order form prices it today: $45 a month per server when the server is in New York, San Francisco or Miami, €45 when it is in Bucharest or Amsterdam; nothing to set up; the same monthly figure on a yearly term. On a server with another provider: $45 a month in US dollars, licence only (https://primcast.com/order/nexo). For a few websites: Nexo Hosting Panel 30 Domains, $14.99 (€14.99) a month with a Primcast server, all of Nexo for up to 30 domains (customers' website addresses; subdomains are free). ## Streaming & Media Delivery - [Streaming](https://primcast.com/streaming): **The map of the streaming line, not a product.** One card per product with the question it answers and the page that owns it: radio (/radio, with /icecast, /shoutcast and /autodj beside it), live video (/video), video on demand (/vod), live events (/event), the video CDN (/cdn), a whole dedicated server for streaming (/dedicated/streaming, the one page for that question), GPU transcoding servers (/transcoding) and the Cue engine (/cue, with /cue/reseller). It prints no price, no plan and no server list, so quote the product page, never this one, for any figure. - [Radio Hosting](https://primcast.com/radio): Shoutcast and Icecast internet radio hosting with Auto DJ. Three plans: Free, $0/month after a $5 one-time setup fee (32 Kbps, up to 1,000 listeners, live broadcasting only, no Auto DJ, no storage, listener stats for the last 7 days); Premium, $39/month or $390/year (128 Kbps, up to 2,500 listeners at once and 500,000 listener hours a month, 20 GB library, Auto DJ with clock-based automation, 5 DJ accounts with their own logins and hours, a studio in the browser, audience stats for 30 days); Platinum, $79/month or $790/year (320 Kbps, up to 5,000 listeners at once and 1.5 million listener hours a month, 3 streams, 100 GB library, 20 DJ accounts, plus loudness normalization, cue points, weighted rotation, clean mode, listener requests, voice tracking, guest links, a backup source and seamless DJ handoff, track and tune-out stats, traffic checks, exports, email reports and 90 days of history). Above 5,000 listeners is quoted. A listener hour is one listener for one hour; when a paid station uses its month's hours, listeners already connected stay and new ones wait for the 1st of the next month (or for a Premium-to-Platinum upgrade, which raises it at once); the owner is emailed at 80% and 100%. The free plan has no hours allowance, only its 1,000-at-once cap. On all three plans, the free one included: a public station page at primcast.com/tune-in/radio/ (name, logo, cover picture, description, website and social links, contact, podcasts, the live player and what is on now) and a listing in the radio guide at /tune-in/radio, which shows Server Room's stations as well; the owner switches it on in the radio panel's Share tab and Primcast staff approve each listing before it goes public. Also on all three: a weekly shows schedule (title, host, picture, days and times, set on the panel's Schedule tab) that listeners see as on now and up next on the station page, in the guide and in the station's app. Premium and Platinum only, never the free plan: the station's own iPhone, iPad and Android app with CarPlay and Android Auto, generated at /dashboard/apps and published under the customer's own App Store and Google Play accounts, included at no extra cost, with "Powered by Primcast" on the player screen (see /mobile). Also Premium and Platinum only, included at no extra cost: podcasting, where any show can be published as a podcast with an RSS feed for Apple Podcasts and Spotify, episode download stats and a public podcast page (see /podcast). Also on Premium and Platinum: pre-recorded and syndicated programs (episodes built from file stretches with cue points, cue-sheet import from a .cue file or a time list with the file's own commercials skipped and the station's break played instead, airings once or weekly, expiry dates, station-ID and ad breaks filled from playlists); recording of every live show to the library, where a recording becomes a podcast episode in one click; talk over the music (a /talk mount mixes the presenter's microphone over what is on air with the music ducked); smart playlists by category and tags, folder playlists, outro segues (Platinum), custom cover art and a week check of the schedule; programming version history with one-click restore (the last 50 versions); podcast ads (see /podcast); and proof-of-airing reports for the station's own advertisers (every airing of a spot the Auto DJ played, with date, start time and length in the station's time zone, CSV and a printable report, marked sealed where the sealed airplay log covers it). Platinum only: a standby slot, a third live slot alongside next-show handoff that takes the air only when neither show is sending. On every plan, the free one included: Listening now (who is listening right now, live, with CSV export); the airplay log with tamper-evident daily seals; royalty reports with SoundExchange-style use reports and report layouts for ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN, PRS, GEMA, SACEM and UCMR-ADA, a play log and a completeness check; licences on file; country limits the owner sets in the panel (for example blocking the United States); archived monthly reports (every finished month's airplay history kept as a downloadable CSV under Licensing > Archived reports, including history carried over from the old Centova panel); off-air email alerts (off until switched on), maintenance notices and a public status page; public .pls, .m3u and .xspf playlist links, submission help for TuneIn, Radio Browser, Radio Garden and other directories, and address checks that confirm each directory plays the current address (Alexa and Google smart speakers need TuneIn playing the current address); a web player that adapts to its frame (bar, standard, card, full), with a spectrum display on desktop, a sleep timer, share and pop-out, reconnecting on its own (old embeds are upgraded automatically); a read-only station API with API keys or OAuth sign-in, an OpenAPI description and webhooks for off-air, on-air and maintenance (radio stays read-only through the API); and a self-serve switch to a SHOUTcast DNAS 2.6 server in the panel. The web player also shows the song up next, likes and dislikes with a top tracks chart, show reminders (a calendar file or a browser notification) and links to the song on Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube Music, and casts to Chromecast and AirPlay speakers. Premium and Platinum add, in the player: pause and rewind of the live stream (up to 4 hours back on Premium, 8 on Platinum) and starting a show from the beginning; listen again to every show on the schedule, saved as it ends with its songs as chapters (kept up to 14 days on Premium, 30 on Platinum); clips of up to a minute that listeners share by link; a live chat with reactions that the owner moderates; and voice messages listeners record for the studio, which the owner can add to the library or play on air. Platinum adds transcripts of the listen-again shows and an AI DJ: short links between songs (what just played, what is next, the station and the time) in the voice, style and language the owner picks, aired through voice tracking. The station apps also run on Android TV, Wear OS watches and Samsung and LG TVs. Premium and Platinum also include Production, a tab in the radio panel (and an API) that writes and records ads, station IDs, weather, news read from the owner's own feeds, talk segments and original songs into the Auto DJ library using the owner's own OpenAI or ElevenLabs account, and brings in audio made with other tools. Every plan can take listener tips into the owner's own PayPal, Stripe or Ko-fi. Stations are hosted in New York and Bucharest; new stations open in either. A 14-day trial of Premium or Platinum is offered. - [Radio station app](https://primcast.com/mobile): The station's own iPhone, iPad and Android app, with CarPlay and Android Auto, included with Premium and Platinum radio (not the free plan); built in the control panel at /dashboard/apps and published under the customer's own store accounts (Apple Developer Program $99 a year, Google Play $25 once, paid to Apple and Google). Publishing guides at /apps/publish. - [Radio guide](https://primcast.com/tune-in/radio): The public directory of approved Primcast and Server Room radio stations, each with its own page at /tune-in/radio/: live player, what is on now and next, the shows schedule, podcasts and links. Listing is free on every radio plan and needs staff approval. English only. - [Auto DJ](https://primcast.com/autodj): the cloud Auto DJ on Premium and Platinum: hourly clock automation (daypart, weekday/weekend and seasonal schedules), a cloud music library, crossfades, artist separation and the US webcasting rules, a fallback playlist, automatic hand-over to live DJs, pre-recorded and syndicated programs with cue-sheet import, reruns and expiry dates, smart and folder playlists, outro segues (Platinum), custom cover art, a week check that flags overlaps, gaps and silent slots, and programming version history with one-click restore; the Platinum-only tools (loudness levelling, cue points, weighted rotation and clean mode, listener requests, voice tracking) are marked on the page. - [Podcast Hosting](https://primcast.com/podcast): Standalone podcast hosting; no radio station needed. **The one page to quote for podcast hosting and its prices.** Three plans, none with a setup fee. Free (J700), $0 a month: 1 show, 10 GB, and short ads from Primcast's ad network in every episode (one before it, one at each of its breaks, or one every 15 minutes in a pause when it has none, none after it; they cannot be turned off on Free), download stats for the last 7 or 30 days, release now or on a date, no chapters or transcripts. Podcast (J701), $9/month or $90/year: 3 shows, 50 GB, none of Primcast's ads, the podcaster's own sponsors inserted at download (sponsorship, standard and house campaigns; targeting by podcast and country; spots levelled to -16 LUFS; IAB-counted impressions), chapters, transcripts, scheduled release, stats up to 365 days. Network (J702), $29/month or $290/year: 20 shows, 250 GB, as Podcast plus a printable report for each advertiser. A year costs ten months. Every plan: up to 2,000 episodes per show, no download caps (fair use), an RSS feed for Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Podcasting 2.0 apps with submit links (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music and Audible, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts, Podcast Index), a public podcast page and an embeddable player, downloads counted to the IAB podcast measurement guidelines (no listener IP stored; by episode, day, country, app and device), and import of an existing show from another host by its RSS feed. Episodes are hosted on Primcast's servers in New York. Podcast plans have no radio stream and no encoder; a radio station on the Premium or Platinum radio plan (see /radio) has podcasting and podcast ads in its radio plan instead. Order: /order/podcast/?plan=J700 (or J701, J702). - [Shoutcast Hosting](https://primcast.com/shoutcast): The one page to quote for a SHOUTcast question. Every new station starts on Icecast 2.5 (there is no picker at checkout), and the owner switches it to a real SHOUTcast DNAS 2.6 server with one setting in the Primcast panel, self-serve, on every plan including Free, at no extra charge, and can switch back the same way: the station keeps its links, encoder settings, music and schedule, gets the DNAS admin and status pages, and can be listed in the SHOUTcast Directory with the authhash from a free SHOUTcast RadioManager account. Every panel tool stays, live tools included. Encoder settings: server type SHOUTcast, the server, port and source password shown on the panel's Go live tab (BUTT, RadioBOSS, SAM Broadcaster, Mixxx, Liquidsoap and the Winamp SHOUTcast DSP in legacy v1 mode); the bitrate ceiling each plan enforces (32/128/320 Kbps); on Platinum the closest-server ingest works too. Hosted in New York and Bucharest. 1,000 listeners at once on Free, 2,500 on Premium, 5,000 on Platinum, plus 500,000 / 1.5 million listener hours a month on Premium / Platinum. Quote /radio for the plan ladder and /icecast for Icecast. - [Icecast Hosting](https://primcast.com/icecast): The datasheet, and the one page to quote for an Icecast question: Icecast 2.5, one server per station with its own port and limits, on our own servers in New York and Bucharest (on the Platinum plan, the radio CDN plays each listener's stream from the closest of five cities: see /radio/cdn), managed from the Primcast dashboard on every plan, the /stream mount for encoder and listeners alike, a secure https://ny1.radio.primcast.com/port/stream link printed in the panel plus a plain http:// copy for old players, 1,000 listeners at once on Free, 2,500 on Premium, 5,000 on Platinum, 500,000 / 1.5 million listener hours a month on Premium / Platinum, up to 3 streams on Platinum, encoder settings (Icecast 2, the server and port from the panel's Go live tab, mount /stream, username source, the source password, bitrate at or under the plan ceiling; SHOUTcast encoders connect too), a self-serve switch to SHOUTcast DNAS 2.6 on any plan, talk-over on a /talk mount and recording of every live show on Premium and Platinum, a standby slot on Platinum, a live list of current listeners on every plan, a free server with a one-time setup fee, paid plans from $39. Quote /radio for the plan ladder and /shoutcast for SHOUTcast. - [DEVA Broadcast encoders](https://primcast.com/encoders/deva-broadcasting): **The one page to quote for a DEVA Broadcast encoder question** (DB90-TX, DB91-TX, DB9000-TX, DB9009-TX): the box connects to any Primcast radio plan as an Icecast source client with the address (no http://), the station's port, the mount typed as stream with no leading slash (the box adds one), username source and the source password from the Go live tab. The plan is set by the quality step in the box: HE-AAC quality 1 (24 kbps) fits Free's 32 kbps ceiling; MP3 quality 1 to 3 (64, 96, 128 kbps) needs Premium; MP3 quality 4 to 6 (192, 256, 320 kbps) needs Platinum. HE-AAC on these units stops at 88 kbps, so paid plans use MP3. The DB90-TX and DB9000-TX are Icecast sources only (never flip their station to SHOUTcast); the DB91-TX and DB9009-TX add a SHOUTcast v1 source on the server port plus one and a backup audio input. No DEVA encoder sends song titles (Icecast metadata update from playout, or Auto DJ); a DEVA decoder at a transmitter site pulls the plain http:// copy of the listen link. A Primcast source password is 16 characters and one DB9000-TX took only 15: the chat sets a shorter one. Primcast does not sell the encoders. Quote /radio for the plan ladder and /encoders for choosing a box. - [Radio CDN](https://primcast.com/radio/cdn): **The one page that answers how Primcast's radio CDN works.** Platinum radio plan only (not Free, not Premium). Stations stay hosted in New York or Bucharest; each listener plays the station from the closest of five cities (New York, Bucharest, Amsterdam, Miami, San Francisco) through its CDN link, https://listen.radio.primcast.com//, and the encoder can connect to the closest of them too (ingest.radio.primcast.com, port 14000; SHOUTcast v1 encoders dial 14001), which passes it straight on to the station's own server. Who goes where: North America New York; Latin America and the Caribbean Miami; Western Europe and Africa Amsterdam; Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South Asia Bucharest; Asia-Pacific San Francisco; each region with fallback cities. Servers are checked every 10 seconds; one that misses two checks in a row leaves within about a minute and a half. Existing links and encoder settings keep working. - [Live Video Streaming](https://primcast.com/video): Video streaming hosting on Primcast's video CDN: encoders connect over RTMP, SRT (Starter and up) or WebRTC at the nearest of 5 cities, viewers play from the nearest city. Channels: 1 (Free, Starter), 3 (Pro), 10 (Platinum). Every channel can have a station page on Tune In (/tune-in/video) once Primcast approves it; Starter, Pro and Platinum include the customer's own Samsung and LG TV app (/television). - [Video on Demand (VOD)](https://primcast.com/vod): An on-demand library of MP4 uploads (no re-encoding, up to 100 GB a file) streamed from the nearest of 5 cities, with a 24/7 TV station built from the same files. Starter 50 GB, Pro 200 GB, Platinum 2 TB; the free plan is live only. Library plans include the Samsung and LG TV app. - [Live Video Transcoding](https://primcast.com/transcoding): The one page that answers how many live channels one server transcodes (12 NVENC sessions per system, four 3-profile channels), which cards have hardware encoders, and how a complete transcoding machine is bought. Do not quote /vod, /xtream or /vod/multi-bitrate-streaming for a live transcoding question. - [Content Delivery Network (CDN)](https://primcast.com/cdn): All Primcast video plans since 2026-10-20 (live, VOD and delivery together): Free CD100 (1 TB a month, live only, $5 setup), Starter CD150 $29, Pro CD200 $99, Platinum CD300 $499; 5 cities (New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest). - [Smart TV App](https://primcast.com/television): The customer's own white-label app for Samsung (Tizen 4.0 and later) and LG (webOS 4.x and later) televisions, i.e. 2018-and-newer sets, generated in the control panel and published under the customer's own Samsung Seller Office and LG Seller Lounge accounts. It plays the live channel, browses the video library with resume, continue watching, favourites and search, and has an About screen with QR codes; the live player's on-screen display says "Powered by Primcast". Included at no extra cost with every paid live video, CDN and VOD plan; not with the free CD100, Z999 or VD999. There is no Roku, Fire TV, Android TV or Apple TV app, no programme guide and no push notifications. - [Tune In: TV channels](https://primcast.com/tune-in/video): The public guide of live TV channels and video libraries hosted with us, each with its own page at /tune-in/video/ (name, logo, cover picture, description, website and social links, contact, the live player for a live channel, featured videos). The customer turns the page on from the "Public page" card on the account page in the control panel, on any active live video, CDN or VOD plan including the free ones; Primcast approves each listing before it appears. - [Wowza Hosting](https://primcast.com/wowza-hosting): The one page for a Wowza server at Primcast since 29 October 2026: a dedicated server for the customer's OWN Wowza Streaming Engine licence (bought from Wowza, $195 a month per instance on Basic Monthly as read that day), the machine, its network and its operating system run by Primcast at any hour, the Wowza engine covered by Wowza's own support plan; or Cue, Primcast's engine, licensed and managed by Primcast at $195 a month plus $29.99 once, answering Wowza's playback addresses and REST API. Machines from the catalogue's streaming line with a 1 Gbps unmetered port included, five cities, month to month, usually online within 24 hours of a verified payment. Primcast no longer resells Wowza licences or supports the Wowza engine itself (from 15 November 2026). The shared video service on /video runs on Cue, not Wowza. Viewer arithmetic: 133 at 1080p/6 Mbps per 1 Gbps at 80 percent, 1,333 per 10 Gbps. - [Xtream Codes Alternative: Cue IPTV Dedicated Servers](https://primcast.com/xtream): Xtream Codes closed in 2019; Cue, the streaming engine Primcast builds, answers the same API shape on the customer's own dedicated server: subscriber lines, bouquets, player API, M3U and XMLTV, MPEG-TS and HLS line addresses, catch-up, movies and series, Enigma2 bouquets, the MAG portal API, resellers with credits. Installed at hand-over; the licence is also sold alone for an existing server. - [Cue Streaming Engine](https://primcast.com/cue): The one page that answers what Cue is -- Primcast's own live streaming engine, installed and licensed on a dedicated server -- what it runs (a website channel, an IPTV service, cameras, SRT contribution, streaming for your own clients), how a Wowza or Flussonic server moves to it without viewers noticing, what it costs and how it is ordered. For Wowza or Flussonic themselves, /dedicated/wowza and /dedicated/flussonic; for the reseller panel's features, /cue/reseller. CUE MEDIA SERVER, our own live streaming engine, is a software option on a dedicated server: $195 a month plus $29.99 setup once, on top of the server, licensed to that one machine and installed with the server's build (Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 11+, AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux/RHEL 8+, CentOS 7/8, Windows Server 2012 R2/2019/2022/2025). Monthly on every billing cycle: software takes no longer-term discount. It runs on Linux and on Windows Server, with FairPlay, Widevine and PlayReady DRM, server-side ads in every rendition and in DASH, live captions and a full IPTV service built in. In: RTMP/RTMPS, SRT, RTSP, WebRTC (WHIP), MPEG-TS over UDP/multicast or HTTP, HLS pulls. Out: HLS (MPEG-TS, fMP4, Low-Latency), MPEG-DASH, WebRTC (WHEP, under a second behind live), RTMP, SRT, RTSP, MPEG-TS. Adaptive bitrate on NVIDIA NVENC, Intel Quick Sync or the CPU, logos, several audio languages, DVR, MP4 clips, signed links, SCTE-35 ad markers, and a free Let's Encrypt certificate for the server's name. Offered on these dedicated lines (x86; not on ARM): AMD Opteron X2150, Intel Atom C2730, Intel Atom C2750, Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4, AMD Opteron 6300, Intel Xeon E3-1284L v3, Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5, Intel Xeon D-1500, Intel Xeon E5-2600 v1/v2, Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4, Intel Xeon Silver / Gold, Intel Xeon E-2286M, Intel Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2, Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4, AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon Gold. Built and measured on the HPE ProLiant m710x line, whose Quick Sync graphics made seven 1080p30 HD ladders in real time at once (plan on six); its smallest build (Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps) is from $62.58 a month. Order it at https://primcast.com/order/dedicated/config?type=M710x#opSoftType=LinuxOpSoft&preselectStreaming=60 CUE RESELLER PANEL: $49 a month. Setup $29.99 once on its own. Ordered with Cue Media Server or Wowza Streaming Engine, the two carry one setup fee. It can be ordered on its own, and then runs SHOUTcast and Icecast radio stations. Order the panel at https://primcast.com/order/dedicated/config?type=M710x#opSoftType=LinuxOpSoft&preselectStreaming=60&preselectOpSoft=61; its features: https://primcast.com/cue/reseller A CUE LICENCE ON ITS OWN, for a server you already run at any host (you install it with our installer, so there is no setup fee; one key for one machine, bound when it first activates): Cue Media Server $195 a month; Cue Media Server + Cue Reseller Panel $244 a month; Cue Reseller Panel alone $49 a month. The panel on its own runs SHOUTcast and Icecast radio stations, and live channels on Wowza Streaming Engine; TV and on-demand services need Cue Media Server on the same machine. Order a licence at https://primcast.com/order/cue - [Cue Reseller Panel](https://primcast.com/cue/reseller): The media control panel, and streaming control panel, for selling streaming under your own brand from one dedicated server of yours: you sign up resellers, resellers sign up customers, and each customer gets radio stations (AutoDJ from playlists and a schedule, live DJs, MP3 or AAC), live channels (RTMP, RTMPS, SRT or WebRTC in; HLS, MPEG-DASH or WebRTC out, 160p to 4K), 24/7 TV Stations, video libraries and relays, capped by the plan they bought. White label down to each reseller's own logo, colours, language and panel domain with automatic certificates; 13 languages including Arabic and Persian. WHMCS, Blesta, ClientExec and WiseCP modules provision and suspend services. The page sets it beside MediaCP and WMSPanel. Hosts radio stations by itself (SHOUTcast and Icecast compatible, with AutoDJ and live DJs); live streams run on Cue Media Server or on Wowza Streaming Engine through its REST API, and TV and on-demand on Cue Media Server; Flussonic support comes next. Licensed per server: if the license lapses the panel locks and streams stay on air seven more days. See /cue for Cue itself. Price, read from the order catalogue as this file was served: $49 a month for the panel on its own, whose radio stations need nothing else, plus $29.99 setup once; $244 a month with Cue Media Server, which runs its live channels, TV Stations and on-demand libraries ($49 + $195), plus one $29.99 setup for the two; added as options to a dedicated server order. It is also sold as a licence for a server the buyer already runs, installed by the buyer with one command and no setup fee: $49 a month for the panel alone, $244 a month with Cue Media Server; order it at /order/cue. - [Event Streaming](https://primcast.com/event): Live events set up on the video CDN: an event builder at /order/event (days, hours, up to 50,000 viewers), or Platinum, whose event mode needs no separate order. ## Getting Help [Support](https://primcast.com/support) is the one page that answers this, and it is the page to quote when somebody asks what happens after they report a problem. /contact is the address book — which department, which number, which office — and /management describes what we DO to a running machine as a product. - **Support is included.** On every plan, the free ones as well. The telephone, the live chat, the ticket desk and the email address are the same four for everybody, staffed by the same people at the same hours. Nothing is metered, there is no allowance to run out of, and there is no separate queue. Nobody has to buy anything to be helped, and never suggest otherwise. What the paid tiers sell is time and monitoring, so say so when asked about response times, hardware replacement or being told about an outage: Bronze answers within 4 hours and replaces a failed part within 4, Silver 2 and 3, Gold 1 and 2, Platinum 30 minutes and 2, and every paid tier monitors the machine's own switch port and emails when it goes quiet - from $19 a month on a rack server and $9 on a Moonshot cartridge. The M700 sells that monitoring alone for $2. Existing customers keep the price they signed up at. - **The desk is an AI and a person on the same shift, and the order matters.** The AI answers first and can read the account and the server's own hardware health before it replies. When a human is on shift it does NOT speak to the customer: it hands them its answer as a private note and waits, so the customer reaches the human. It sends its own answer only when nobody else would have. That is the inverse of the usual arrangement - it is a floor under a person, not a gate in front of one. Asking for a person always gets one. It will never read out or ask for a password, and it does not take irreversible action on a server because a chat asked it to. - **A person answers, on a telephone, at any hour.** +1-646-213-0346 for technical support. That is the number the service level agreement itself names for reporting failed hardware, so the replacement clock starts when it is called. - **Live chat**: median first reply 37 seconds across a sample of resolved conversations, about two thirds inside a minute, slowest tenth over three minutes. Quote it as "usually under a minute" rather than as an average — the tail is real. For an outage the telephone is better. - **The hardware guarantee**: a failed component is replaced within four hours of the customer reporting it by telephone or live chat. - **Service credit when that is missed**, on a published schedule rather than on request: 10% of that month between 4 and 6 hours, then 20, 40, 60 and 80, and 100% beyond 24 hours. Network unavailable for more than 15 consecutive minutes: one day of credit for every cumulative hour that month, capped at one month. One day is a thirtieth of the monthly charge. Claim within seven business days of month end; credit lands on the next invoice and is never cash. Voided by not giving us the access to troubleshoot with, or by an account not in good standing. - **Self-service, no ticket and no charge**: reboot and power through the machine's own management controller, unlimited operating-system reinstalls, a remote console where the controller supports one, editable reverse DNS, delegated dashboard access for a colleague, and API keys. - **There is no status page.** Do not invent one. [The looking glass](https://primcast.com/lg) runs ping, traceroute, MTR and BGP queries from our own edge in New York and Bucharest, and each city has a speed test. That pair is what answers "is it them or me". - **What standard support does not cover**: code the customer wrote, custom third-party applications and scripts, unsupported cPanel add-ons, administering the customer's own databases, DNS at the customer's registrar, and FFmpeg tuning. Somebody working inside a customer's own stack rather than beside it is a managed service — https://primcast.com/management. - Support answers in the language the message arrives in. The site is published in eleven. ## Tutorials The written guides live under /support and are indexed at the foot of it — 35 of them, mostly about getting a stream out of an encoder. - [Stream with OBS](https://primcast.com/support/stream-with-obs): Configure OBS Studio to broadcast to Primcast. - [Stream with Wowza](https://primcast.com/support/stream-with-wowza-streaming-engine): Wowza Streaming Engine setup guide. - [Stream with vMix](https://primcast.com/support/stream-with-vmix): vMix RTMP setup, field by field. vMix has no auto-reconnect switch to turn on -- it reconnects on its own. - [Proxmox networking](https://primcast.com/support/proxmox-networking): Putting a public IP address on a Proxmox VE 9 virtual machine. Primcast configures the first IPv4 on the host and leaves the rest for the customer to place. Bridged, routed and private-subnet setups with the network files to copy; the gateway is the .1 of that address's own range; MAC addresses need no registration; IPv6 is issued as individual addresses with a ::1 gateway; reverse DNS is self-service. - [China routing](https://primcast.com/support/china-routing): **Quote this page for questions about serving users in mainland China.** Primcast has no CN2 GIA; China Telecom is reached through Cogent into ChinaNet (AS4134), China Unicom on AS4837, China Mobile via CMI. San Francisco measured closest (134 ms to China Telecom in Shanghai on 27 Sep 2026; New York 196 ms). It lists the per-city speed tests to try from China, the three-day refund, and the free replacement IP when China blocks an address. DDoS protection is not offered. - [Contact](https://primcast.com/contact): The address book — sales, technical support, abuse and billing, by phone and email, with both office addresses. ## Company & Data Centers - [About Primcast](https://primcast.com/about): The one page that answers who Primcast is: Primcast LLC (New York, registered 2010, in business since 2004) and Primcast Europe SRL (Bucharest, J40/11011/2016, VAT RO36436303), which one invoices you, two offices, five rooms, the hardware is ours and the racks are leased, the desk is open 24/7, what the service agreement really promises, and the seven public profiles. Every fact on it has a document behind it. - [Data Centers](https://primcast.com/datacenters): New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest. The page lists a test IP and a speed test for each city, so a buyer can ping or measure a location before ordering. - [Pricing](https://primcast.com/pricing): Plans and pricing across servers and streaming. - [Crypto Payments](https://primcast.com/crypto): Pay with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Solana, USDC or XRP. - [How we compare](https://primcast.com/compare): Side by side with Contabo, Hetzner, Leaseweb, OVH and Vultr. - [Partners](https://primcast.com/partners): Partner and reseller programs. - [AI Receptionist](https://primcast.com/receptionist): **The one page that answers "AI receptionist" and AI phone answering on this domain, and it is a PARTNER'S product, not ours.** PrimCall's Sofia answers a business's calls in seconds, takes appointments, reservations, quote requests, cancellations and messages in English and Spanish, transfers calls by the business's own rules and sends a summary of each call. The page runs PrimCall's free demo: PrimCall builds a private Sofia from the visitor's own business listing or website and the visitor calls her in the browser, no account and no card. PrimCall sells, bills and supports it on https://primcall.co; Primcast takes no signup or payment for it and does not support it. PrimCall runs on Primcast dedicated servers in Miami. PrimCall's own terms, quotable only as PrimCall's: $300 a month with 300 minutes, first month free, no setup fee; demo line 877-761-7469. ## The company, in fourteen lines The About page (https://primcast.com/about) owns these; nothing else on the site restates them. - Company: Primcast LLC, a private company registered in New York in 2010, NY Department of State ID 3905310; in business since 2004 (domain and BBB start date both 2 March 2004) - European entity: Primcast Europe SRL, Bucharest; trade register J40/11011/2016; CUI 36436303, VAT RO36436303; registered office Bd. Dimitrie Pompeiu 8, Sector 2, 020337 Bucharest; registered 2016 - Offices: Long Island City, New York; Bucharest, Romania (addresses and phones on https://primcast.com/contact) - What it does: rents whole physical servers by the month, on its own hardware, in rack space leased from data-center operators (Bucharest excepted); radio, video, VOD and CDN run on those servers as a product line - Rooms: New York (60 Hudson Street), Miami (Digital Realty), San Francisco (Digital Realty, Oakland), Amsterdam (Iron Mountain, Haarlem, Tier III), Bucharest (the Feper building, designed and built by Primcast); the buildings' certifications are the buildings' - Hardware: HPE blade enclosures and cartridge chassis, Dell and Supermicro rack systems, Gigabyte or Foxconn on the Ampere line, NVIDIA cards and DGX Spark machines; a management controller of its own (HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC or a Supermicro, Gigabyte or Foxconn BMC) on every rack server and blade and on the m510 and m710x cartridges, power control only on the other cartridges, none on a DGX Spark - Who invoices you: Primcast LLC in US dollars; Primcast Europe SRL in euros for servers rented in Bucharest - Term: monthly, no contract; paying for 3, 6 or 12 months at a time makes the server 5/10/15% cheaper, software licences excluded; refund on written request within 3 calendar days of first activation, pro rata less 15% - Service agreement: no uptime percentage promised; credit after more than 15 consecutive minutes down, up to one month; failed parts replaced within 4 hours of notice, with a credit ladder if missed - Support: chat and phone 24/7, included on every plan; an assistant answers first and a person takes over on request; support line +1-646-213-0346 - Payment: card and wallet, PayPal, ACH and bank transfer, cryptocurrency, check payable to Primcast LLC - Reviews: 4.2 / 5 on Trustpilot over 21 reviews (September 2026); BBB rating A+, not accredited - Not sold: DDoS protection on any line; a second tenant on a dedicated server (the Cloud VPS is the one product that shares a machine, and is sold as that) - Disambiguation: Primcast the hosting company is not the "PrimCast" atomic multicast research protocol ## Where else Primcast is The same seven the Organization schema names, so nothing here contradicts the markup. - X: https://x.com/Primcast - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primcast - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primcast/ - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/primcastable/ - Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Primcast/ - Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.primcast.com - Better Business Bureau: https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/long-is-city/profile/information-technology-services/primcast-llc-0121-87147073 ## Policies - [Terms of Service](https://primcast.com/terms-of-service) - [Privacy Policy](https://primcast.com/privacy-policy) - [Refund Policy](https://primcast.com/refund-policy)