Infrastructure

Where your server actually lives.

One location. The Charlotte hardware is ours: bought, racked and maintained by Darkless, on our own network. Below is everything you can check yourself.

Locations

One location today, on hardware we own.

Every service runs in Charlotte, North Carolina. Europe is planned, not live.

  • Charlotte, North CarolinaOwnedPrimary facility. Dedicated servers · VPS hosting · Minecraft server hosting · Web hosting · Discord bot hosting.
  • EuropePlannedNo products yet. If EU latency decides your purchase, ask us before you order.
Charlotte, NC

Great-circle distance from Charlotte. Real latency depends on your route.

Latency

Test your route.

Run these from the machine that will talk to the server. Browser-based tests are not representative.

Charlotte, NCTest IP31.56.65.1
  • ping 31.56.65.1
  • mtr 31.56.65.1
Or use KeyCDN's ping tool

Network

What every server gets.

Our IP space, 31.77.212.0/24, is announced from our own autonomous system. You can check both yourself.

AS197924 on bgp.tools

Per server

Uplink
1 Gbps unmetered per server
DDoS
L3/L4 mitigation, included
IPv4
1 included per dedicated server
ASN
AS197924
IP space
31.77.212.0/24
Test IP
31.56.65.1

Hardware

The lineup.

Every CPU we sell, and the products that run on it.

Ryzen 5 5600X6 / 12

Small Minecraft server, vanilla or lightly modded

Clock3.7–4.6 GHz
Ryzen 7 5800X8 / 16

Small Minecraft server, vanilla or lightly modded

Clock3.8–4.7 GHz
Ryzen 9 7950X16 / 32

Large network or several servers

Clock4.5–5.7 GHz
Ryzen 9 9950X16 / 32

Hosting node, reselling, virtualisation, heavy workloads

Clock4.3–5.7 GHz

PassMark scores

The CPUs we sell next to the CPUs we found on other providers' pricing pages.

What a busy dedicated box or a full VPS node feels.

  1. Ryzen 9 9950XDarkless65,702
  2. Ryzen 9 7950X3DSeen at Hetzner AX10262,295
  3. Ryzen 9 7950XDarkless62,132
  4. Ryzen 9 5950XSeen at Bloom Performance45,255
  5. Ryzen 7 9700XSeen at OVHcloud RISE-S36,951
  6. Ryzen 7 5800XDarkless27,660
  7. Ryzen 5 5600XDarkless21,825

PassMark CPU Mark, cpubenchmark.net, checked 2026-09-12. Competitor CPUs are listed where we found them on a provider's pricing page.

Control panels

What you log into.

The real panels behind each product. Step through what they do, or switch panel.

The Darkless Pterodactyl panel showing a Minecraft server's status, resource usage and SFTP details
The Darkless Pterodactyl panel showing a Minecraft server's status, resource usage and SFTP details
Minecraft server hosting

Status

Incidents live on the status page.

We publish a public status page. Incident history lives there, not in marketing copy.

Open status pagedarkless.cloud/status