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10Gbps Dedicated Server 10 Gbit/s unmetered, up to 2×100 Gbit/s

Short answer: yes. Every Streaming Dedicated build in Amsterdam comes with an unmetered 10 Gbit/s port at its list price, and 40, 100 and 2×100 Gbit/s ports are fitted on request with a custom quote.

  • 10 Gbit/s unmetered builds
  • 40 · 100 · 2×100 Gbit/s on request
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Always-on DDoS protection
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Bare metal in Amsterdam

On request
40 · 100 · 2×100 Gbit/s
Orderable now
10 Gbit/s, unmetered
40G and up
Custom quote
Traffic on 40G+
Agreed in the quote
Handover date
Confirmed before you pay
Protection
Always-on DDoS
Amsterdam, Netherlands

01Ports

10Gbps, 40Gbps and 100Gbps ports: which speeds can I get?

Two rows you can order today with their live price and stock, and three port sizes we fit on request. The faster ports have no list price on this page: each one is quoted for the project.

The 10 Gbit/s builds can be ordered straight away, with live stock and prices below. Faster ports are fitted to order: you tell us the port, the machine and how your traffic runs, and the price, the traffic terms and the handover date are confirmed before you pay. Every machine stands in Amsterdam, behind always-on DDoS protection.

PortTrafficPrice per monthAvailabilityTypical fit
10 Gbit/s1 Gbit/s included, on Standard, Pentesting and DMCA Ignored Dedicatedfrom €2803 of 7 builds in stockA busy website or API, a few hundred 1080p viewers, an origin behind a CDN
10 Gbit/sUnmetered, on Streaming Dedicatedfrom €5303 of 7 builds in stockAn IPTV or OTT origin, a CDN node, a download mirror, nightly replication
40 Gbit/sAgreed in the quoteCustom quoteOn requestThousands of concurrent viewers, launch-day patches, a large edge node
100 Gbit/sAgreed in the quoteCustom quoteOn requestA regional delivery node or a high-volume origin
2×100 Gbit/sAgreed in the quoteCustom quoteOn requestTwo 100 Gbit/s ports on one machine, for the largest single-server loads

Every Streaming Dedicated build comes with its 10 Gbit/s port at the price in the table, and it is unmetered: you pay for the port, not for the terabytes that cross it, and nothing is counted. The other dedicated lines have the same 10 Gbit/s port, with 1 Gbit/s of usage included. For 40 Gbit/s or faster, the traffic terms are part of the quote, so ask for them in writing with the price.

Between two sizes, for example a peak of 20 Gbit/s: name the figure in your request, and the quote says which port carries it. The sizing rule further down, a peak at no more than 80 % of the port, puts 20 Gbit/s on a 40 Gbit/s port.

02Workloads

What needs a 10Gbps dedicated server?

A fast port pays off when many people pull data from one machine at once, or when a lot of data has to move in a short window. Most other servers never come close to 1 Gbit/s.

Live streaming, IPTV and OTT origins

Every viewer pulls their own copy of the stream, so the port grows with the audience: concurrent viewers × bitrate. This is the most common reason to leave 1 Gbit/s behind.

Video on demand and media libraries

Large libraries served straight from the origin, without a CDN in front, or a busy catalogue that refills CDN caches after every release.

CDN nodes and origin servers

Your own edge node in Amsterdam for European users, or the origin that a CDN pulls from. Cache misses after a purge or a release arrive all at once.

Download and game update mirrors

Software releases, ISO images and game patches peak on day one, when everyone downloads the same files in the same hour. The port, not the disk, usually sets the ceiling.

Backups and replication

Moving 50 TB at line rate takes about 111.1 hours over 1 Gbit/s and about 11.1 hours over 10 Gbit/s. A faster port shortens the window for offsite copies, database replicas and migrations between sites.

When 1 Gbit/s is enough

Applications, databases, game servers and most websites rarely reach the port limit. Measure your real peak first; for many projects the 1 Gbit/s of usage included on the other lines is the cheaper answer.

Running live video, IPTV or VOD? The line built for it, with its port options and the IPTV sizing table, is Streaming Dedicated. Background reading: how a CDN works from the origin's side, and how to set up an nginx RTMP server for ingest.

03Throughput

How much traffic does a 10Gbps server move?

Port speeds are counted in bits per second, files and traffic volumes in bytes. What each port moves at line rate, and how many viewers it carries at a safe load:

PortPer secondPer day at line ratePer 30-day month at line rate1080p viewers at 6 Mbit/s4K viewers at 20 Mbit/s
1 Gbit/s125 MB/s10.8 TB324 TB13340
10 Gbit/s1.25 GB/s108 TB3,240 TB1,333400
40 Gbit/s5 GB/s432 TB12,960 TB5,3331,600
100 Gbit/s12.5 GB/s1,080 TB32,400 TB13,3334,000
2×100 Gbit/s25 GB/s2,160 TB64,800 TB26,6668,000

Two formulas cover most sizing. The port you need is concurrent viewers × bitrate at your peak, kept at no more than 80 % of the port so there is room for bursts and retransmissions; the viewer columns above use that rule. The volume a port moves is its speed × time × average load, divided by 8 for bytes.

A worked example: 5,000 concurrent viewers at 6 Mbit/s add up to 30 Gbit/s at peak. That is past a 10 Gbit/s port and fits a 40 Gbit/s port with headroom.

Hardly any port runs at line rate all month. A 10 Gbit/s port that averages 40 % over a 30-day month still moves about 1,296 TB, which is why the unmetered 10 Gbit/s builds bill the port and never the volume.

The bitrates are examples: 6 Mbit/s for 1080p and 20 Mbit/s for 4K are common targets, and your encoder settings set the real figure. With adaptive bitrate many viewers take a lower rendition, so sizing for the top one is the safe upper bound.

04Quote

How do I request a 40Gbps or 100Gbps quote?

By e-mail, on Telegram or on Discord, from a person who reads the whole request. Nothing is charged until you accept the quote and pay the invoice.

  1. 01

    Send the request

    Write to us with the port you want and the details listed below. A rough figure is fine; a measured peak from your current setup is better.

  2. 02

    We check the build

    Our team checks which machine and port fit your load, and asks back if the traffic profile or the hardware leaves a question open.

  3. 03

    You get a custom quote

    The quote names the machine, the port, the monthly price, the traffic terms and the handover date, all in writing and before you pay.

  4. 04

    Pay and take over

    You pay the prepaid invoice by card, PayPal or crypto, our engineers set the machine up, and you log in on the confirmed date.

What to put in the request

  • The port: 40, 100 or 2×100 Gbit/s, or the peak you need to carry
  • Your traffic over a day: the peak, the average, and how long the peak lasts
  • The monthly volume you expect, in terabytes, if you know it
  • The machine from the table below, or the cores, memory and disks you need
  • What runs on it: live or VOD delivery, a mirror, a CDN node, replication
  • When you need it and for how long: the start date and the billing term

What the quote confirms

  • The machine and the port, with the number of ports
  • The monthly price and the billing term
  • The traffic terms for that port
  • The handover date

Need 40, 100 or 2×100 Gbit/s? Tell us the port, the build you have in mind and how your traffic runs over a day. We reply with a custom quote, and the price and the handover date are confirmed before you pay.

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05Machines

Which machine fits a high-bandwidth dedicated server?

The faster ports go into the same Amsterdam machines that the catalogue lists below, with their live stock and their price in each line. Each price links to the line's page, where the builds are ordered.

Dual 2690v4 - 256GB28C / 56T · Intel256 GB DDR42 TB SSD10 Gbit/s port · 1 Gbit/s included2 in stockStandard Dedicated€280/moPentesting Dedicated€365/moDMCA Ignored Dedicated€350/moStreaming Dedicated (Unmetered)€530/mo
Xeon 2699v444C / 88T · Intel128 GB DDR48 TB 4x 2TB SSD10 Gbit/s port · 1 Gbit/s included1 in stockStandard Dedicated€280/moPentesting Dedicated€365/moDMCA Ignored Dedicated€350/moStreaming Dedicated (Unmetered)€530/mo
Dual Gold 6148 - 256GB40C / 80T · Intel256 GB DDR42 TB SSD10 Gbit/s port · 1 Gbit/s included1 in stockStandard Dedicated€310/moPentesting Dedicated€405/moDMCA Ignored Dedicated€390/moStreaming Dedicated (Unmetered)€560/mo

No stock, or not what you are looking for?

Contact us for a custom quote and get your custom server ready in 3 to 14 days. Prepayment may be required.

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What a fast port asks of the machine

A 10 Gbit/s port is only as fast as the slowest part behind it. Four things to check before you pick a build:

CPU: encryption and transcoding

Serving files or segments costs little CPU. TLS on every connection costs more, and live transcoding costs the most: each rendition of a ladder takes cores. Tell us which of the three you run.

Memory: the hot set

Content that many viewers request at once, such as a live stream's latest segments or a new patch, is best served from RAM. The more of the hot set fits in memory, the less the disks have to deliver.

Disks: read speed

A full 10 Gbit/s port is about 1.25 GB/s of reads. One SATA SSD stops well short of that, since the SATA III interface tops out at 6 Gbit/s; several disks in parallel or a RAM cache close the gap.

Line: the rules around it

Every line has a 10 Gbit/s port: unmetered on Streaming Dedicated, with 1 Gbit/s of usage included on the other lines. For 40 Gbit/s or faster, the quote names the line and its traffic terms.

How to measure what your disks deliver before the port becomes the question: test disk speed on Linux with fio.

06Network

Network notes for 10Gbps and high-bandwidth servers

What sits around the port, and what to know before you measure it.

  • Amsterdam only: every dedicated server we rent out stands there, whatever its port. There is no dedicated server in Frankfurt or anywhere else.
  • DDoS mitigation is always on in front of every dedicated server and filters volumetric attacks upstream, at no extra cost.
  • Planning to run the port at line rate around the clock? Say so in the request, so the machine goes on a switch with room for it.
  • One connection rarely fills a fast port across the internet: a single TCP stream moves at most its window size per round trip, so 10 Gbit/s at 20 ms round-trip time needs a 25 MB window. Many viewers, parallel downloads or several replication streams fill the port together.

For the route to your users, run ping, traceroute or MTR from Amsterdam to your own address on the looking glass, or measure latency and jitter with the ping test. For the way back, ping or trace our test address 45.153.34.90. The tools measure the route to Amsterdam, not one particular server.

Once the machine is yours, measure throughput with parallel streams rather than one: testing a server's network with iperf3 and mtr shows how, and bandwidth vs latency explains why a fast port does not shorten the round trip.

07FAQ

10Gbps dedicated servers: questions

Everything you need to know before deploying, and a human if you need more.

Still have questions?

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Yes. Every Streaming Dedicated build in Amsterdam comes with a 10 Gbit/s port, unmetered, at its list price, and can be ordered straight away. 40 and 100 Gbit/s ports, up to 2×100 Gbit/s on one machine, are fitted on request: send us the port, the machine and your traffic profile by e-mail, on Telegram or on Discord, and we reply with a custom quote.

Yes: Streaming Dedicated. Every build on that line has a 10 Gbit/s port that is unmetered: you pay the monthly price of the machine, and nothing counts your traffic. For 40 Gbit/s or faster, the traffic terms are part of the quote, stated in writing before you pay.

A 10 Gbit/s unmetered server starts at €530 a month on Streaming Dedicated, for the cheapest build in stock. The 40, 100 and 2×100 Gbit/s ports have no list price: the price depends on the machine, the port and the traffic terms, and the quote confirms it before you pay. Orders are prepaid, by card, PayPal or crypto.

40 Gbit/s, yes, on request with a custom quote. The port sizes are 10 Gbit/s on every build, unmetered on Streaming Dedicated, and 40, 100 and 2×100 Gbit/s on request, so for a load of about 20 Gbit/s, name your peak in the request and the quote says which port carries it. With a peak kept at no more than 80 % of the port, a 20 Gbit/s peak goes on a 40 Gbit/s port.

Yes, on request: a 100 Gbit/s port, or two of them on one machine for up to 2×100 Gbit/s. At that size the machine behind the port matters as much as the port, so tell us what the server delivers, how much of it is encrypted or transcoded, and where it reads from. Past what one 2×100 Gbit/s server carries, the load is split across several servers or a CDN.

A Streaming Dedicated build in stock, with its 10 Gbit/s port, is handed over within a few hours of payment, set up by our team. 40 Gbit/s and faster ports are fitted to order, so their handover date is part of the quote and confirmed before you pay.

In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and only there: we have no dedicated servers in any other city. DDoS mitigation is always on in front of every dedicated server, the high-bandwidth ones included, at no extra cost. Test the route from Amsterdam to your users with the looking glass and the ping test before you order.

08Use cases & related

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