Dedicated instances are optimized for workloads where consistent performance is required or where full-duty work (100% CPU all day, every day) needs doing. This includes build boxes, CI/CD, video encoding, machine learning, game servers, databases, data mining, and busy application servers. The underlying CPU resources for these instances are dedicated and shared with no one else. A Dedicated Linode’s vCPU threads are assigned exclusively to cores and SMT threads on the hypervisor, and there is no sharing or competing for these resources with other Linodes. We’ve priced these plans to be very competitive and we think they’re a pretty darn good value. Visit our blog post for pricing and more information: https://blog.linode.com/2019/02/05/introducing-linode-dedicated-cpu-instances/