The step between 20 and 100

40 Gbps dedicated servers — where the premium starts falling

Buying capacity on one machine costs more than buying more machines, right up until it does not. At $2,799 a month this is the step where that gap closes to 19% — from 45% one step below, and to nothing at all one step above.

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Forty gigabits, one machine or four

The same comparison every page in this range makes, at this step. The answer is still that more machines cost less — but by a margin that has shrunk enough to be worth weighing against what running four of them involves.

Both columns are the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 line, its cheapest complete build, read from the order catalogue when this page was served.
Per month	One server at 40 Gbps	four servers at 10 Gbps
The hardware	$73.47	$293.88 4 × $73.47
The ports	$2,799	$2,116 4 × $529
Total	$2,872.47	$2,409.88
Cores, memory and disks	One machine’s worth	Four machines’ worth

The premium is 19%, and falling

At 20 Gbps, one machine costs 45% more than two
At 40 Gbps, one machine costs 19% more than four
At 100 Gbps, one machine costs 33% less than ten

Which is why this step is a genuine decision rather than an obvious one. The money still favours splitting. Everything else — one address, one copy of the data, one machine to watch — favours not splitting, and at 19% that is no longer an expensive preference.

The two lines that reach it

40 Gbps is not offered across the range. It is on Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 and Intel Xeon Silver / Gold, and nothing else — so the port decides the machine here as much as the machine decides the port.

Cheapest of the two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4
Its cheapest complete build $73.47
With the 40 Gbps port $2,872.47
Built in New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami and Amsterdam

Only one of the two also reaches 100 Gbps. If there is any chance of needing that later, it is worth checking which line you are ordering before the machine is built rather than after. Configure this line →

Every port on the line that carries them all

One machine, priced at each step, so the per-gigabit column compares like with like.

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 this page	$2,799	$2,882.67	$72.07
100 Gbps	$3,999	$4,082.67	$40.83

The last column dips here: a gigabit costs $72.07 at 40 Gbps against $85.63 at 20. Doubling the port adds $1,170 and buys twice the capacity, which is the first step in this range where that is close to a fair trade.

Configure a 40 Gbps server

Stock below can be built on either line with the port already set. For a specification we do not hold, the configurator prices the whole machine before you commit to it.

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Answered on another page

Nothing on this list changes at 40 Gbps, so none of it is repeated here.

Unmetered, and where this step sits in the full range Unmetered servers →
The 10 Gbps port the table above counts four of 10 Gbps servers →
Attack traffic, and what we do not sell against it Read that answer →
The step below, and the step where the arithmetic turns over 20 Gbps · 100 Gbps

What people ask about the 40 Gbps step

Mostly variations on one question: is this the rung to stop at?

Should I buy 40 Gbps or two servers at 20?

On price, neither — four servers at 10 Gbps is the cheapest way to reach 40, at $2,409.88 against $2,872.47 for one machine. The single port is worth its 19% when the traffic has to arrive at one address, or when nobody is going to run the thing that splits it.

Which servers can take a 40 Gbps port?

Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 and Intel Xeon Silver / Gold. The cheaper of the two starts at $73.47 for a complete machine and is built in New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami and Amsterdam.

Why is there no 60 or 80 Gbps?

Because the steps follow the hardware rather than the arithmetic. The catalogue sells what the interfaces and the uplinks come in, and between 40 and 100 there is nothing in between to sell. If you need a number that is not on the list, ask — the answer will be one of these ports or more than one machine, and we will tell you which.

Is it worth going straight to 100 Gbps?

If the traffic is heading there, yes. 100 Gbps costs $1,200 more than this port and carries 2.5 times the capacity, which is why its cost per gigabit is the lowest we sell. It is also on one line only, so getting there later can mean moving machine.

Weighing this step against the ones either side?

Tell our team what the traffic looks like and how it is addressed. We will work the same arithmetic against your actual numbers and tell you which of the three steps is the right buy — including when it is the cheaper one.