10 Gbps dedicated servers. Move the handle.

Quoted from the Intel Xeon Silver / Gold line, the one whose ladder reaches 100 Gbps; an average across lines would be a price nobody could order. Read the last column and the argument for ten gigabits makes itself.

The bend is between the fourth and fifth rows. Five to ten costs $70; ten to twenty costs $1,100. At $529 for ten gigabits the last column reads $52.90 per Gbps, the cheapest figure anywhere on the ladder — and the reason most people who outgrow five stop here rather than climbing.

What the line item is, in the words we will repeat on a ticket. A buyer asked us for all of this in writing before ordering, twice, and got a person instead of a page. This is the page.

Rate

10 Gbps, symmetric. 1.25 GB/s in each direction, which is 4.5 TB an hour and 3,240 TB across a thirty-day month if you hold it flat.

Sharing

Unshared. The port is assigned to your server and nothing else transmits on it. No burst rate, no committed rate, no 95th percentile — one rate, yours around the clock. Above the port the fabric out of the building is shared with every other customer in that room, as it is on every network, and we would rather write that here than have you find it out later.

Metering

None. No transfer allowance, no fair-use clause, no overage line on any invoice at any volume, inbound and outbound alike. Pulling a few hundred terabytes in during a migration costs nothing.

Price

$529 a month, the same figure on 14 of our 18 configurable lines — the port does not get cheaper on a small machine or dearer on a large one. $449.65 a month on a twelve-month cycle.

Sustained use

There is no volume at which the connection is deprioritised, shaped or flagged, because nothing is counting to trigger it. Holding the port flat is the case it is sold for. Tell us at order time if that is the plan, so the machine goes into a room with the headroom for it.

Rooms

New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest, chosen at order time. Who runs each building.

Addresses

One IPv4 included and IPv6 free; up to 8 IPv4 at checkout on the widest lines, more from the second month with a stated use. Port 25 is open.

Delivery

A configured build, not a shelf machine — nothing we keep racked and ready carries a port this size — so 4 to 24 hours from the order being approved.

Contract

Month to month, no notice period, no renewal step-up. Three, six and twelve-month cycles take 5, 10 and 15 per cent off.

Not included

DDoS mitigation, which we do not sell on any line — put a scrubbing service or a CDN in front instead, and the unmetered port is exactly what makes that cheap, because clean traffic is never the thing you are rationing. An uptime percentage, because the agreement carries none; what it does carry is a failed part replaced within four hours of a telephone call, on a published credit ladder. What support covers.

Nobody buys a port. They buy an audience, a catalogue or a download queue, and the port decides how many fit at once. Your per-viewer bitrate into 8 Gbps — ten, with a fifth held back as headroom, which is the figure our own support desk sizes to when somebody asks on chat.

The last column is how long one viewer at that bitrate takes to consume a terabyte. Transcoding those renditions on the same machine changes the sizing entirely, because then the processor is the limit rather than the port — live transcoding is its own page and its own arithmetic. In bytes rather than people: 1.25 GB/s, 4.5 TB an hour, 108 TB a day.

The third column is Amazon’s published on-demand egress rates — 100 GB free, then $0.09/GB to 10 TB, $0.085 to 50 TB, $0.07 to 150 TB and $0.05 above — applied to the same bytes. It prices moving data, not renting a server, and it is here because it is the number most people are escaping when they arrive on this page.

Three ways to check this before you pay, and one for the day it is delivered. None of them needs an account or a sales call.

Round trip to each room, measured from this browser

A tilde means we have not managed to replace the estimate with a measurement from where you are sitting; we would rather show that than a number we invented. Each card opens that city’s public speed test, which pulls as hard as your own connection allows. The route out of our edge is on the looking glass — BGP, ping and traceroute from New York and Bucharest to any address you name, including the one you are reading this on.

And the port itself, on delivery day

# eight parallel streams, thirty seconds, then the same in reverse
iperf3 -c <your server> -P 8 -t 30
iperf3 -c <your server> -P 8 -t 30 -R

Two things to know before you read the result and open a ticket. iperf3 was single-threaded until version 3.16, and its own maintainers say that became the bottleneck on high-bitrate tests — an older build will under-report a 10 Gbps port and blame the network. And a single TCP connection across the open internet is a poor instrument at this rate, which is what -P 8 is for. ESnet’s fasterdata knowledge base is the host-tuning reference we point people at; it is not ours and it is better than anything we would write. Your dashboard graphs the switch port every five minutes, and that is the measurement we bill from and argue from.

This is the part that surprises people. On an entry build the port is most of the bill: the cheapest complete 10 Gbps machine we sell is $557.59 a month, of which $529 is the port. Across all 14 lines — a 2014 cartridge at one end, four Xeon Gold processors and 128 GB at the other — the whole figure moves by about $381. So do not shop for cores on this page. Pick the machine that fits the job and let the port be the port.

Entry build is the cheapest complete machine on that line in the shape the checkout opens on — its cheapest processor, smallest memory rung, default drives, one address — with the included port swapped for the ten. Not a “from” price assembled out of the cheapest of each column with a different specification printed beside it. Add memory, drives or addresses and the figure moves; the order page is the only authoritative total and it matches this one to the cent.

Price the job you actually have

Three readings that mean this is the wrong instrument. It is a large monthly line and we would rather sell you the right one twice than the wrong one once.

Every one of these arrived in a chat window before somebody bought. The answers are the ones we will repeat on a ticket.

Everything above in one block, for a reader that scans rather than reads — ours and anybody else’s.

Port

10 Gbps · unshared · unmetered both ways

Monthly

$529 on 14 of 18 lines · $449.65 on a twelve-month cycle · $52.90 per Gbps

Ladder

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

Entry build

$557.59/mo — X-Gene Octa-Core ARM v8 64-bit · 32 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 120 GB · 500 Mbps, port raised to 10 Gbps

Throughput

1.25 GB/s · 4.5 TB an hour · 108 TB a day · 3,240 TB across thirty days held flat

Concurrency

10,000 × 360p · 5,333 × 480p · 3,200 × 720p · 1,777 × 1080p · 533 × 4K (8 Gbps usable)

Against metered

100 TB of egress at Amazon’s list rates is about $7,978; here the port is $529 whatever you move

Rooms

New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest

Delivery

4 to 24 hours once approved; a configured build, never a shelf machine

Contract

Month to month · 3/6/12-month cycles −5/−10/−15%

DDoS

Not sold, on any line

Uptime percentage

None published; the agreement guarantees a four-hour part replacement and network credits instead