What does cores vs. threads mean? Why can’t I have 5 cores and 100 threads for example?

Last updated October 16, 2025

The hardware information for a Webdock VPS is showing you the physical CPU hardware we are giving you access to. You are not limited to the number of threads shown in your VPS hardware profile: That’s a misunderstanding of how CPU architectures work.

Our CPU’s are Intel Xeon cpus and there, due to something called Hyperthreading, each physical core has exactly two CPU threads. So, when we enable 1 core for a VPS that will always equal 2 threads. A user can spin up more threads than that in software of course, but these threads will then be competing for the same “real” CPU threads

So this is not an artificial limitation – it’s just how the CPUs are built physically. 1 phsyical core is always = 2 threads.

In addition what you see as vCPU or virtual CPU with other providers is in fact CPU threads. So when we state you get 5 Cores and 10 Threads – you are getting the equivalent of 10 vCPU.

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