Unmetered dedicated servers: 1 Gbps from $159, 10 Gbps from $499

Pay for the port, not the terabytes. Our 1 Gbps unmetered server is $159 a month in Ashburn, Chicago or Los Angeles, and our 10 Gbps full-duplex servers in Chicago start at $499 a month. Neither one has a data cap, an overage bill or peak-hour throttling. Pick 1 Gbps if your traffic sits in the hundreds of megabits. Pick 10 Gbps when it doesn't.

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10Gbps full duplex Unmetered, both directions

99.5% uptime SLA Contractual guarantee

24/7/365 Engineer-staffed support

Rapid deployment Automated OS reinstalls via portal

Built for traffic that never really stops

A 10 Gbps port run flat out moves about 3.2 PB in a 30-day month, in each direction. A 30 TB plan, for comparison, averages about 93 Mbps. If your traffic regularly runs at hundreds of megabits or more, metered bandwidth gets expensive fast, and a flat monthly price for the whole port is usually the cheaper way to buy it.

10Gbps full duplex, always on

Full bidirectional 10 Gbps, unmetered. We watch the uplink load on every rack and add capacity, or stop selling into that rack, before it gets tight.

Unmetered means unmetered

No data caps, no overage fees, no throttling at peak hours. Send as much traffic as your application generates, every day of the month.

Online the same day or the next

In-stock builds are online the same day or the next, and custom builds take a week or less. OS reinstalls run from the client portal, no ticket needed.

24/7/365 support by phone

Engineers answer around the clock. A written ticket gets a response within 30 minutes, or 15 on a managed plan.

10 Gbps unmetered dedicated server plans

If a gigabit covers your peaks, the $159 Xeon D-1541 Special has a 1 Gbps unmetered port built in. The three 10 Gbps packages below run in Chicago on dual Xeon E5-2670 v2 processors with 10 Gbps full-duplex unmetered ports; pick the RAM tier that fits, or ask for a custom configuration. Every rack's uplinks are monitored, and we add capacity or close a rack to new servers before it gets busy. IPMI sits on a private management network by default.

Chicago (Central)

Entry unmetered

2 × Xeon E5-2670v2

$599 /month

$499 /month

17% off MSRP

Best for

Large resellers, mid-size game servers, high-traffic blogs, bandwidth-heavy apps

CPU

2 × Xeon E5-2670v2

RAM

64 GB DDR

Storage

2 × 1 TB SSD

Network

10Gbps unmetered

IPs

4 usable IP addresses

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1 Gbps or 10 Gbps? Do the math first

A metered plan sells you terabytes. An unmetered plan sells you the port and lets you fill it. The break-even comes sooner than most people think: 30 TB a month averages out to about 93 Mbps, so anything that runs at a few hundred megabits for most of the day has already outgrown it.

Plan	Price	Most it can move in a 30-day month	Average rate
30 TB transfer (standard build)	Included with builds from $126/mo	30 TB	~93 Mbps
150 TB transfer	$260/mo line on the order form	150 TB	~463 Mbps
1 Gbps unmetered, Xeon D-1541 Special	$159/mo all in	~324 TB	Up to 1,000 Mbps
10 Gbps unmetered (Chicago)	From $499/mo	~3.2 PB each way	Up to 10,000 Mbps

Already running one of our standard builds? The order form lets you swap its 30 TB transfer line for a 1 Gbps unmetered uplink ($320 a month for that line instead of $20). If you’d rather keep your hardware budget low, the $159 Special already has the gigabit port built in.

Our honest take: most workloads never hold 10 Gbps for a whole month. What 10 Gbps buys is headroom, so a launch day, a patch release or a viral clip doesn’t hit a wall. If your graphs sit under 600 or 700 Mbps at peak, start on 1 Gbps and move up when they don’t. More on the trade-offs in 10 Gbps unmetered servers: what you are actually buying.

What people run on unmetered servers

If the bill on a metered plan grows every time your audience does, the workload probably belongs here.

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Dedicated streaming servers

Origin servers, restreaming and transcoding boxes push steady outbound traffic for hours, and that pattern is exactly what a per-terabyte plan punishes. A dedicated server for streaming needs a port sized to your concurrent viewers. Here's how to size it.

Download mirrors and CDN nodes

ISOs, game patches and software updates go out in bursts that can swamp a transfer quota in one release week.

Game servers

Players care about latency and packet loss more than raw bandwidth, but a busy community with voice, mods and map downloads adds up. See dedicated game servers.

Backup and replication targets

Nightly offsite copies and database replicas move a lot of data on a schedule. A flat port means the backup window, not the invoice, is your only limit.

Ad tech and real-time APIs

Bid requests, tracking pixels and API gateways are small packets at huge volume. Metered billing makes those costs hard to predict.

VPN, proxy and relay nodes

Every byte a user sends goes in and out again. Unmetered ports keep a relay fleet from turning into a bandwidth bill.

Streaming

Dedicated streaming servers: size the port, not the CPU

Stream delivery runs out of port long before it runs out of CPU. The math is bitrate times concurrent viewers: a 6 Mbps stream to 160 viewers is 960 Mbps, and that fills a gigabit. A 10 Gbps port carries about ten times that, so roughly 1,600 viewers at the same bitrate.

Origin and restream boxes also push outbound traffic for hours at a stretch. On a per-terabyte plan that’s the most expensive shape traffic can take. On an unmetered port it costs the same as an idle month.

Which port to pick. For a small audience, the $159 Xeon D-1541 Special has a 1 Gbps unmetered port and ships in Ashburn, Chicago or Los Angeles. For live events and multi-bitrate origins, go to the 10 Gbps packages, which start at $499 a month and run in Chicago. Transcoding is the part that eats CPU, so if you’re building a heavy bitrate ladder, do it on a GPU dedicated server and keep the unmetered box for delivery.

Want a dedicated server for streaming sized to a real audience? Send your bitrate ladder and peak concurrent viewers on the quote form and we’ll tell you which port fits.

Before you buy

Five questions to ask any unmetered host, and our answers

“Unmetered” describes the bill. It doesn’t describe the network behind it. Put these to every provider on your list, us included, and get the answers in writing.

Are the switch uplinks shared? At any host selling 1 and 10 Gbps ports, yes. Ours too. The useful question is what they do when a rack gets busy. We watch each rack’s uplink load and add capacity, or stop selling into that rack, before it gets tight.
Is the port speed a guaranteed rate? Usually it’s the port size, not a committed rate. If you need a committed rate, say so on our quote form and we’ll tell you plainly what we can commit to.
Is it unmetered in both directions? Ours is: inbound and outbound, no cap either way, and the 10 Gbps ports are full duplex.
What happens when the network is down? Ask for the SLA and the credit schedule. Ours is 99.5% network availability with published credits, 99.95% with a management plan. It’s all on our SLA page.
Can I test it before I pay? You should be able to. Run ping, traceroute or MTR from our looking glass, or pull the 1 GB test files from speedtest.chi.gigenet.com, speedtest.lax.gigenet.com and speedtest.iad.gigenet.com. One stream won’t fill a 10 Gbps port, so run several at once.

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers on bandwidth, pricing, the SLA and delivery for 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps unmetered servers.

What does unmetered mean on these servers?

We don’t meter the port. There’s no monthly data cap, no overage charge and no throttling, in either direction, so the practical limit is the port itself, 1 or 10 Gbps. That keeps the monthly bill predictable, which is most of the point.

Is unmetered the same as unlimited?

Close, but not quite. Unmetered means we don’t count or cap your traffic: you can run the port as hard as you like, all month, without an overage bill. The port size is still the ceiling, so a 1 Gbps port moves at most about 324 TB in a 30-day month in each direction. Be wary of any plan sold as “unlimited” that doesn’t tell you the port speed.

Where are the 10 Gbps servers?

In Chicago, on our Chicago network, where transit comes from PCCW, Cogent, GTT and Zayo. The 1 Gbps Special can be ordered in Ashburn (East), Chicago (Central) or Los Angeles (West). Need 10 Gbps in Ashburn or Los Angeles? Ask on the quote form and we’ll tell you what we can do.

Is the 10 Gbps port shared with other customers?

Access switches are shared, as they are at any host selling 10 Gbps ports. We watch each rack’s uplinks and add capacity, or stop taking new servers in that rack, before a neighbor’s spike can crowd you. If you need a guaranteed rate, tell us on the quote form and we’ll say plainly what we can commit to.

How much traffic can a 10 Gbps port move?

About 3.2 PB in a 30-day month in each direction if you run it flat out. A 1 Gbps port tops out around 324 TB, and a 30 TB plan averages roughly 93 Mbps. Most workloads never hold 10 Gbps for a whole month; what you’re paying for is headroom for the peaks without an overage bill.

How much does an unmetered dedicated server cost?

A 1 Gbps unmetered server starts at $159 a month: the Xeon D-1541 Special with 64 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, in Ashburn (East), Chicago (Central) or Los Angeles (West). 10 Gbps unmetered starts at $499 a month on the current promotion (MSRP $599) for dual Xeon E5-2670 v2, 64 GB of RAM and 2 × 1 TB SSD; the 128 GB tiers are on the cards above. That $499 Chicago package is the cheapest 10 Gbps dedicated server we sell. If you don’t need an unmetered port, our standard dedicated servers start at $126 a month in Chicago and Los Angeles with 30 TB of transfer.

Can I get a 1 Gbps unmetered port?

Yes, two ways. The $159 Xeon D-1541 Special comes with a 1 Gbps unmetered port and can be ordered in Ashburn (East), Chicago (Central) or Los Angeles (West). Or pick any standard build and swap its 30 TB transfer line for a 1 Gbps unmetered uplink on the order form ($320 a month for that line). We don’t list a 2 Gbps package; for anything between 1 and 10 Gbps, ask for a custom quote and tell us what your traffic looks like.

What does the SLA cover?

Every server comes with our Essential SLA: 99.5% network uptime, a 30-minute ticket response and 2-hour hardware replacement. Add a management plan and you’re on our Awesome SLA, with 99.95% uptime, a 15-minute priority response and 1-hour replacement. A 100% uptime SLA is available only with our High Availability Guarantee. Read the full SLA →

How fast can I get one?

In-stock builds are online the same day or the next day, and custom builds take a week or less. Want more RAM, extra IP blocks or bigger storage than the cards show? Ask for a custom quote.

Can I test the network before I order?

Yes. Check routes and latency from our looking glass at lg.gigenet.com, or download a 1 GB test file from speedtest.chi.gigenet.com/1gb.img (Chicago), speedtest.lax.gigenet.com/1gb.img (Los Angeles) and speedtest.iad.gigenet.com/1gb.img (Ashburn). One download stream won’t fill a 10 Gbps port, so run several in parallel if you want a realistic number.

Can I run a streaming server on an unmetered dedicated server?

Yes, it’s one of the workloads these servers are built for. Up to about 160 viewers at 6 Mbps, the $159 Special’s 1 Gbps port covers it; past that, look at the 10 Gbps packages in Chicago. Either way there’s no overage, inbound or outbound, because we don’t meter the port.

Need more bandwidth, more IPs or a custom build?

These packages cover most high-throughput workloads. If yours needs something beyond what's listed, we'll build it. Custom RAM, additional IP blocks, and higher storage configurations are all available on request.
Further reading: 10Gbps unmetered dedicated servers, explained

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