The top of the range

100 Gbps dedicated servers — the step that pays for itself

Every port below this one is dearer per gigabit than buying more machines. This one is not. At $3,999 a month it is the cheapest gigabit we sell, and the only step where putting the capacity on one machine is also the cheaper way to buy it.

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The point where more machines stop being cheaper

A hundred gigabits is one server holding a 100 Gbps port, or ten servers holding 10 Gbps each. Lower down the range the second column wins. Here it does not, and it does not by a distance.

Both columns are the Intel Xeon Silver / Gold line, its cheapest complete build, read from the order catalogue when this page was served.
Per month	One server at 100 Gbps	ten servers at 10 Gbps
The hardware	$83.67	$836.70 10 × $83.67
The ports	$3,999	$5,290 10 × $529
Total	$4,082.67	$6,126.70
Cores, memory and disks	One machine’s worth	Ten machines’ worth

One machine, $2,044.03 a month cheaper

And that is before the ten machines need a load balancer in front of them, ten operating systems patched behind them, and something watching which of them is unhealthy at three in the morning. The column that loses on price also loses on everything that is not price.

It reads the other way round two steps down: at 20 Gbps the extra machines are the cheaper buy, and our 20 Gbps page says so in the same arithmetic. Whichever number is smaller is the one we print.

One line carries it

100 Gbps is offered on the Intel Xeon Silver / Gold line and no other, which makes the machine part of the decision rather than a detail underneath it.

The line Intel Xeon Silver / Gold
Cheapest complete build $83.67
With the 100 Gbps port $4,082.67
Built in New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami and Amsterdam

That entry build is where the price starts, not where anyone should stop: a machine asked to move a hundred gigabits wants the cores and the memory to match, and the configurator prices every step of both. Configure this line →

Every port this machine will take

The same server, priced at each step. It sells all four, so nothing here changes hardware between rows.

Every rung on the Intel Xeon Silver / Gold line — its cheapest complete build at $83.67, plus the port. Read from the order catalogue when this page was served.
Port	The port	Machine and port	Per gigabit
10 Gbps	$529	$612.67	$61.27
20 Gbps	$1,629	$1,712.67	$85.63
40 Gbps	$2,799	$2,882.67	$72.07
100 Gbps this page	$3,999	$4,082.67	$40.83

The last column falls to $40.83 at the top, against $85.63 at 20 Gbps and $61.27 at 10. It is the only step where climbing the range makes each gigabit cheaper than the one you started on.

What it takes to actually use it

The port is the easy half. These are the things that decide whether you see the number you are paying for.

Many connections, not one

A hundred gigabits is filled by thousands of transfers running at once. Nothing in the port divides them up, but no single transfer gets near this figure in practice — the far end, the distance and the protocol run out long before the port does. If your traffic is a handful of large moves rather than many small ones, size it on what one of them really achieves.

The machine has to keep up

Serving at this rate is work for the processor and the disks as well as the network. Size the build for the traffic, not for the entry price above.

Content near the users

One server in one city is one round trip away from everywhere else. If your audience is spread, a smaller port in a second city often beats a bigger one in the first.

Tell us before you turn it on

A machine going from idle to a hundred gigabits looks exactly like a machine that has been compromised. A note to support beforehand keeps our monitoring from acting on it.

Configure a 100 Gbps server

Anything in stock below can be built on the Intel Xeon Silver / Gold line with the port already set. For a specification we do not hold, the configurator prices the whole machine before you order it.

Bandwidth Pricing

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*GPU dedicated servers are provisioned within 24 - 72 hours. Provisioning may take up to two weeks if your GPU of choice is out of stock.

Included with your server

Network

A global network that guarantees low latency.

1 IPv4 address included – a free IPv6, and extra IPv4 from $6 a month, on most lines

Unmetered port – speeds up to 100 Gbps available

New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam or Bucharest Data Center

Answered on another page

None of these change at 100 Gbps, so they are answered once, where they belong.

What unmetered means across the whole range Unmetered servers →
The 10 Gbps port this page compares ten of 10 Gbps servers →
Why filtering is not sold with the port Read that answer →
The step below, where the arithmetic still favours more machines 40 Gbps servers →

Before you commit to 100 Gbps

The four that come up every time somebody orders at this size.

Is one 100 Gbps server cheaper than ten 10 Gbps servers?

Yes, and by $2,044.03 a month. One server with the port is $4,082.67; ten servers at 10 Gbps are $6,126.70. This is the only step in our range where that is true — lower down, the extra machines win.

Which servers can take a 100 Gbps port?

The Intel Xeon Silver / Gold line, and only that one. It is built in New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami and Amsterdam. If you need this much bandwidth on different hardware, talk to us before ordering rather than after.

Will one download run at 100 Gbps?

No, and nothing we sell would. A single transfer is limited by far more than the port — the other end, the distance, the protocol. This capacity is for many things happening at once, which is what streaming, distribution and origin traffic look like.

Can I move up to this from a smaller port?

Only from within the same line, which already carries every step from 1 Gbps upward. Starting anywhere else means moving the machine to get here, so if 100 Gbps is somewhere in your plans it is worth starting on this line even at a smaller port.

Planning something this size?

Tell our team the shape of the traffic — how much, from where, to whom — and we will say whether this port, several smaller ones, or servers in more than one city is the right build.