Dedicated servers · 100 Gbps port
100Gbps dedicated serverOne machine. One port. No meter.
A 100Gbps dedicated server at Server Room is a whole Intel Xeon Silver / Gold machine on its own unshared 100 Gbps switch port. The port costs $3,999 a month on top of the hardware, and it is unmetered: no transfer allowance and no per-terabyte charge.
- Unshared 100 Gbps port
- No transfer allowance
- No overage price
- Monthly billing, no contract
- Built to order
- Our own network, AS19624
This page covers three things: what the port costs next to ten smaller servers, what a machine needs before it can fill 100 Gbps, and what unmetered means in our billing records.
The port in numbers
What 100 Gbps moves
100 Gbps is 12.5 gigabytes a second in each direction. The figures below are arithmetic on that rate, not a forecast of your traffic.
To send a 1 TB file at line rate. The same file takes over two hours on a 1 Gbps port.
Thirty days at line rate. Almost nothing runs flat out all month, so read it as a ceiling.
A 10 Gbps port, ten times over, behind one address on one machine.
Bandwidth overage charges in 790,586 invoice lines of our billing history.
The arithmetic
One 100 Gbps server or ten 10 Gbps servers
Ten servers on 10 Gbps ports add up to the same aggregate, so that is the fair comparison. Both columns below are the same line, priced on its cheapest build. On today's catalogue the single machine is the cheaper buy, by $2,044.03 a month.
| Per month | 1 server, 100 Gbps | 10 servers, 10 Gbps each |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | $83.67 | $836.70 |
| Ports | $3,999 | $5,290 |
| Total | $4,082.67 | $6,126.70 |
| Aggregate port | 100 Gbps | 100 Gbps |
What one big port gives you
- One address and one origin for the whole 100 Gbps, with nothing to balance in front of it.
- One operating system to patch and one machine to monitor.
- No load balancer or DNS round-robin to build and keep running.
What ten machines give you
- Ten times the cores, memory and drives.
- A hardware fault takes out a tenth of the capacity, not all of it.
- Each server still tops out at 10 Gbps, so no single client or flow gets more than that.
The money is only part of it. If the job is serving many clients from one copy of the data, one port is simpler. If the job needs CPU as much as bandwidth, ten machines may suit it better.
Price per gigabit
What a gigabit costs at each port speed
Every port speed from 10 Gbps up that the Intel Xeon Silver / Gold line sells, each on the same cheapest build, so only the port changes from row to row. The lowest figure in the last column today is the 100 Gbps row. Per gigabit, the 100 Gbps port is the cheapest bandwidth this line sells.
| Port | Port price | Machine and port | Per gigabit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Gbps | $529 | $612.67 | $61.27 |
| 20 Gbps | $1,629 | $1,712.67 | $85.63 |
| 40 Gbps | $2,799 | $2,882.67 | $72.07 |
| 100 Gbps | $3,999 | $4,082.67 | $40.83 |
If 100 Gbps is more port than you need, the 10 Gbps dedicated server and 20 Gbps dedicated server pages cover those steps.
Sizing
Can one server fill a 100 Gbps port?
Yes, when the data comes from memory and the work is spread across cores. At 12.5 GB a second, every part of the path has to keep up: storage, memory, CPU and the machine at the other end.
Storage
A SATA SSD reads at about 550 MB/s, close to the 600 MB/s ceiling of its 6 Gb/s interface. Feeding the port from disk alone takes more than twenty of them working in parallel. The line takes up to 24 drives behind its largest controller, but hot data belongs in memory.
Memory
The line takes up to 1 TB of RAM. Files served from the page cache never touch a disk, which is how download mirrors and CDN origins reach line rate.
Cores
Up to 40 cores across two sockets. Spread the network card's receive queues over them (RSS and IRQ affinity on Linux) and serve many connections at once: a single TCP stream rarely fills 100 Gbps by itself.
A transfer runs at the speed of the slowest link between the two ends. A client on a 1 Gbps line downloads at 1 Gbps however big our port is; the 100 Gbps pays off when many clients pull at once.
Workloads
When a 100Gbps server is the right buy
Buy the port for your peak, not your monthly total. These jobs have peaks that decide everything.
Origin behind a CDN
On a release or a live event, every edge node fetches from the origin at the same moment. The origin's port sets how fast the whole network fills its caches.
Large file distribution
Game patches, operating system images, software mirrors, public datasets. Release day is when the port matters, and a 100 Gbps server carries ten times the release-day traffic of a 10 Gbps one.
Moving data between sites
Replicating storage, backups or training datasets between datacenters. At line rate, 100 TB moves in about two and a quarter hours.
When it is the wrong buy: if your traffic is a steady monthly total rather than a peak, a 1 Gbps port moves about 324 TB in thirty days and comes included on 10 of our 18 lines. Our unmetered dedicated servers page sizes those ports by monthly traffic.
The terms
What unmetered means on this port
No allowance is attached to the port, so there is nothing to exceed and no overage price to apply. Section 10 of our terms of service lets us act on use that threatens the platform or its security. It names no traffic figure and has never produced a bandwidth charge.
- Port
- 100 Gbps, unshared: one switch port, one server
- Port price
- $3,999 a month, added to the machine
- Cheapest machine
- $83.67 a month: Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz · 16 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1)
- Setup fee
- $29, charged once, shown on the order page before you pay
- Transfer allowance
- None
- Overage charges billed
- 0 in 790,586 invoice lines
- Network credit
- One day of the monthly charge per cumulative hour down, once an outage passes 15 consecutive minutes, up to a month. See the service level agreement
- Support included
- Basic 24×7×12: response within 12 hours, hardware replaced within 24 hours. Faster tiers from $19 a month on the support page
- Chat
- An AI answers in seconds and can check your account and your server. A person takes over the moment you ask
- Cities
- New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami and Amsterdam
- Network
- Our own, AS19624
- Delivery
- Built to order once payment is approved. No machine on the shelf carries a port above 1 Gbps
Answers
Questions about 100Gbps servers
How much does a 100Gbps dedicated server cost?
The cheapest complete build is $4,082.67 a month: $83.67 for the machine (Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz · 16 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1)) plus $3,999 for the 100 Gbps unmetered port. Bigger processors, more memory and more drives add their own prices in the configurator. A configured build also carries a one-time $29 setup fee, shown before you pay.
Is a 100Gbps server really unmetered?
Yes. The port has no transfer allowance and no overage price. Across 790,586 invoice lines in our billing history, not one bandwidth overage charge has been raised. You can run the port at line rate all month and the bill stays the same.
How much data can a 100 Gbps port transfer in a month?
About 32,400 TB in thirty days at line rate, which is 12.5 GB every second. A 1 TB file takes 80 seconds. Real traffic is rarely flat out, so treat the monthly figure as a ceiling rather than a target.
Which servers can have a 100 Gbps port?
On today's catalogue, 1 of our 18 configurable lines sells it: Intel Xeon Silver / Gold, with one or two processors, up to 1 TB of memory and up to 24 drives. Pick the 100 Gbps port in the configurator; the link on this page selects it for you.
Where can I get a 100G dedicated server?
In New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami and Amsterdam, the cities the line is built in, all on our own network, AS19624. You choose the city in the configurator.
How long does a 100Gbps server take to deliver?
It is built to order. No ready server on our shelf carries a port above 1 Gbps, so every 100 Gbps machine is configured for its order once payment is approved. Ask on chat for the current build time in your city before you order.
Do I need 100 Gbps, or is 10 Gbps enough?
Size the port to your peak, not your monthly total. If your peaks stay under 10 Gbps, a 10 Gbps port at $529 a month carries them. Once they run past about 60 Gbps, one 100 Gbps machine costs less than the 10 Gbps servers it would take to carry them; the cost table on this page shows the sums.
Elsewhere on the site
Related pages
Configure the 100 Gbps server
Choose the processor, memory, drives and city. The 100 Gbps port is already selected, and the order page shows the monthly price and the setup fee before you pay.