10Gbps dedicated server with a port that is yours alone

These prices come from our Intel Xeon Silver / Gold servers, the line that offers every speed up to 100 Gbps. Look at the last column. Going from 5 to 10 Gbps costs $70 more a month, so ten gigabits is where the price per gigabit drops hardest.

From 10 to 20 Gbps the step is $1,100. That is why most people who outgrow 5 Gbps stop at 10. At $529 you pay $52.90 per Gbps, the lowest rate on the ladder until the very top speed.

This is what you are buying, written the way we would answer it on a ticket. Buyers asked us for it in writing, so here it is.

Speed

10 Gbps, the same in both directions. That is 1.25 GB/s, or 4.5 TB an hour and 3,240 TB in a thirty-day month at full speed.

Sharing

Unshared. The port belongs to your server and nothing else sends traffic through it. There is no burst rate and no 95th percentile billing. You get one rate, all day. Past the port, the building's uplinks are shared by everyone in that data center, as on any network. We prefer you hear that from us.

Metering

None. No transfer allowance, no fair-use clause and no overage charge, inbound or outbound. If you move a big site to us, pulling hundreds of terabytes in costs nothing extra.

Price

$529 a month on 14 of our 18 server lines. The port costs the same on a small machine and a big one. On a twelve-month cycle it works out at $449.65 a month.

Running it flat out

Nothing slows you down at any volume, because nothing is counting. Running at full speed for weeks is what this port is for. If that is your plan, tell us when you order and we place the server where there is room for it.

Locations

New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest. You choose at checkout. See our data centers.

IP addresses

One IPv4 address is included and IPv6 is free. The larger lines take up to 8 IPv4 addresses at checkout, and more after the first month if you tell us what they are for. Port 25 is open.

Delivery

We build each 10 Gbps server to order, because none of our ready servers has a port this fast. Expect 4 to 24 hours after the order is approved.

Contract

Month to month, with no notice period and no price rise at renewal. Paying for 3, 6 or 12 months takes 5, 10 or 15% off.

Not included

DDoS mitigation. We do not sell it on any server. If you expect attacks, put a scrubbing service or a CDN in front; with an unmetered port, that costs you nothing extra in traffic. An uptime percentage. Our service agreement has none. It promises a failed part replaced within four hours of your call, and credits for network outages. See what support covers.

You are not really buying a port. You are buying room for an audience, a video library or a download queue. To size it, divide 8 Gbps by the bitrate of one viewer. That is the 10 Gbps port with 20% kept spare, the same margin our support team uses when you ask on chat.

The last column is how long one viewer at that bitrate takes to use a terabyte. If the same server also converts your stream into several qualities, the processor becomes the limit before the port does. Live transcoding has its own sizing. In bytes: 1.25 GB/s, 4.5 TB an hour, 108 TB a day.

The third column applies Amazon's published EC2 data transfer out prices to the same data: 100 GB free each month, then $0.09 per GB up to 10 TB, $0.085 to 50 TB, $0.07 to 150 TB and $0.05 after that. It prices moving data, not renting a server. We show it because it is usually the bill people are trying to get away from.

Three checks you can run today, and one for the day your server is ready. None of them needs an account or a sales call.

Round trip from your browser to each data center

A figure with a tilde is an estimate, shown until your browser gets a real reading. Click a city to open its public speed test, which runs as fast as your own connection allows. To see the route out of our network, use the looking glass: BGP, ping and traceroute from New York and Bucharest to any address, including yours.

Test the port itself on delivery day

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

Two tips before you read the result. Use iperf3 3.16 or newer: older versions run every stream on one CPU thread and can report less than 10 Gbps even when the port is fine. And one TCP connection across the internet rarely fills a 10 Gbps port, which is why the command opens eight with -P 8. For tuning your own end, ESnet's fasterdata guides are the reference we send people to. Your dashboard also graphs the switch port every five minutes.

On a small server, the port is most of the bill. Our cheapest complete 10 Gbps server is $557.59 a month, and $529 of that is the port. Across all 14 lines, from a small cartridge to a four-processor blade, the total moves by about $381. So choose the machine your job needs, and let the port do the rest.

The entry build is the cheapest complete server on that line as the checkout first shows it: the cheapest processor, the smallest memory option, the default drives and one IP address, with the included port swapped for 10 Gbps. Add memory, drives or addresses and the total goes up. The order page always has the final figure, and it matches this table to the cent.

Price the server for your job

This is a big monthly cost, and we would rather point you to something cheaper that fits than sell you a port you will not use.

People asked us all of these on chat before ordering. These are the answers we give.

The whole page in one table, if you want to scan it.

Port

10 Gbps · unshared · unmetered both ways

Monthly

$529 on 14 of 18 lines · $449.65 on a 12-month cycle · $52.90 per Gbps

All speeds

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 in 30 days at full speed

Viewers

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 prices is about $7,978. Here the port is $529 whatever you move.

Locations

New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest

Delivery

4 to 24 hours after approval, built to order

Contract

Month to month · 3, 6 or 12 months take 5, 10 or 15% off

DDoS

Not sold on any server

Uptime percentage

None published. The agreement promises a four-hour part replacement and network credits instead.