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Unmetered servers.
Any port, 1 to 100 Gbps.

Nothing counts the traffic on any port we sell. You choose the port: up to 10 Gbps it is on the shelf, above that we build the machine around it.

traffic
unmetered
ports
1 · 10 · 25 · 40 · 100 Gbps
on the shelf
up to 10 Gbps
built to order
25 · 40 · 100 Gbps
locations
AMS · MEP · IAD · PHX
what unmetered means
  1. 01 ─

    The bill follows the traffic

    on a meter

    Allowances, per-gigabyte tiers and 95th percentile turn a busy month into a bigger invoice.

    here

    No counter on any port. The invoice is the same number every month.

  2. 02 ─

    Ordinary operations get billed

    on a meter

    Retries, monitoring scrapes, backup reads and cache re-warms count against an allowance like the traffic you meant to serve.

    here

    Run the monitoring and the backups you need; none of it becomes a line item.

  3. 03 ─

    A limit hiding in the small print

    on a meter

    “Unlimited” plans often carry a fair-use clause that brings the cap back on the day it matters.

    here

    No allowance, no fair-use clause, nothing in the terms that brings a cap back. The port is yours alone. The uplink behind it is shared, sized for the servers on it, and when it gets close to full we add capacity rather than hold anyone back.

How allowances and the 95th percentile are counted, with a graph you can play with: how traffic is billed.

the port ladder

Same terms on every step. The machine changes.

Flat monthly and nothing counted, from 1 Gbps to 100. Going up, the question stops being the port and becomes the machine that can fill it.

1 Gbps324 TB a monthstock plans · see pricingHere the port is the limit, not the machine.
10 Gbps3,240 TB a monthstock plans · see pricingCores for the packet rate and many parallel flows. Not sold on a small build.
25 Gbps8,100 TB a monthcustom build · quotedAbout 3.1 GB/s: an NVMe array, not one drive, and cores to match.
40 Gbps12,960 TB a monthcustom build · quotedAbout 5 GB/s: an NVMe array, not one drive, and cores to match.
100 Gbps32,400 TB a monthcustom build · individual builds, not a shelf itemAbout 12.5 GB/s: several NVMe drives in parallel and a CPU chosen for its PCIe lanes.
port sizes · to scale
1 Gbpsstock plans · unmetered
10 Gbpsstock plans · unmetered
25 Gbpscustom build · unmetered
40 Gbpscustom build · unmetered
100 Gbpscustom build · unmetered
above 10 Gbps

A big port needs a machine that can fill it.

Fitting a faster adapter is the easy part. 25, 40, 100 Gbps are real steps, not one jump: if 25 or 40 is what the workload fills, that is what we build.

cpucores for the packet rate

NIC interrupts and the kernel's network stack need cores before the port saturates. A four-core box does not get a 10 Gbps adapter.

workloadmany parallel flows

Window scaling, round-trip time and the far end cap a single TCP stream well below line rate. Edge pulls, replication and concurrent downloads fill a big port; one stream rarely does.

disksNVMe in parallel

100 Gbps is about 12.5 GB/s, more than a single NVMe drive sustains. The array is sized to keep the port fed.

pcielanes for NIC and drives

The drives and the NIC compete for the CPU's lanes, and one quietly starves the other. The CPU is chosen for its lane budget, not only its core count.

gpuif the work needs it

A GPU is available on a built-to-order machine.

work it out · your numbers

Which port your peak needs.

Set what you send at the busiest moment. The rows show which port carries it and whether that is a stock server or a build.

your peak → the portyour numbers
smallest port
10 Gbps
where it comes from
stock server
that peak, all month
972 TB
billed for it
$0
1 Gbps[no] too small
10 Gbps[yes] 30% busy · stock
25 Gbps12% busy · custom build
40 Gbps8% busy · custom build
100 Gbps3% busy · custom build
Size the port for the peak, not the average: nothing is counted, so the only question is whether the busiest minute fits.
where we draw the line

Up to 10 Gbps, pick a server. Above it, send the spec.

1 and 10 Gbps are on the price list with $0 setup. 25, 40, 100 Gbps come back with a price and a date.

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