Dedicated servers · 20 Gbps port
20Gbps dedicated server Your own port. Nothing on a meter.
A 20Gbps dedicated server is a whole machine wired to its own 20 Gbps switch port: no other customer's traffic on it, no transfer allowance, no per-terabyte bill. At Server Room the port costs $1,629 a month on top of the hardware, and 9 of our 18 configurable server lines take it.
- Unshared 20 Gbps port
- No transfer allowance
- No overage price
- Billed monthly
- Built to order
- AS19624, our own network
You pick the processor, memory, drives and city. The port is the same price on every line, so the choice of machine comes down to the workload. Below: every line that takes the port, what the step from 10 Gbps buys, and what a server needs before it can push 2.5 gigabytes a second.
The port in figures
What a 20 gigabit server moves
Twenty gigabits a second is 2.5 gigabytes a second, each way. Everything below is arithmetic on that rate. Your traffic decides how much of it you use.
To send a 1 TB file at line rate. At 10 Gbps the same file takes 13 minutes 20 seconds.
Thirty days flat out. Few servers run at line rate all month, so this is a ceiling, not a forecast.
Roughly how long 100 TB of backups or replicas take to move at the full 20 Gbps.
Bandwidth overage charges raised in 790,586 invoice lines of our billing history.
Live from the order catalogue
Every server line that takes a 20 Gbps port
9 lines sell the 20 Gbps port, at $1,629 a month on each. Each row is that line's cheapest complete build plus the port. More cores, memory or drives add their own price in the configurator, and the link on each row opens it with the 20 Gbps port already selected.
| Line | Cheapest build | Cities | Machine | 20 Gbps port | Total | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Opteron 6300 | AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA 500 GB | New York, Bucharest, Miami | $51.86 | $1,629 | $1,680.86 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E5-2600 v1/v2 | Intel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) | New York, Bucharest, Miami | $70.93 | $1,629 | $1,699.93 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 | Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) | New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami, Amsterdam | $73.47 | $1,629 | $1,702.47 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon Silver / Gold | Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz · 16 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) | New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami, Amsterdam | $83.67 | $1,629 | $1,712.67 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2 | 4 × Intel Xeon E5-4650L Octo Core 2.60 GHz · 64 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) | New York, Bucharest, Miami | $109.69 | $1,629 | $1,738.69 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4 | 4 × Intel Xeon E5-4650 v3 12 Core 2.10 GHz · 128 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) | New York, Bucharest, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam | $186.37 | $1,629 | $1,815.37 | Configure |
| AMD EPYC | AMD EPYC 7413 24 CORE 2.65 GHz 128MB L3 CACHE · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB | New York, Bucharest | $217.59 | $1,629 | $1,846.59 | Configure |
| Ampere Altra Q64-22 | Ampere Altra Q64-22 2.2GHz 64 Core · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB | New York, Bucharest | $288.58 | $1,629 | $1,917.58 | Configure |
| Intel Xeon Gold | 4 × Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16 Core 2.10 GHz · 128 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) | New York, Bucharest, San Francisco | $409.38 | $1,629 | $2,038.38 | Configure |
Every build above is configured for you, so each one carries a one-time $29 setup fee, shown on the order page before you pay. Paying for 3, 6 or 12 months at once takes up to 15% off the monthly total.
The arithmetic
One 20Gbit server or two at 10 Gbps
Two servers on 10 Gbps ports reach the same 20 Gbps in aggregate, so that is the comparison to make. Both columns are the AMD Opteron 6300 line on its cheapest build. On today's prices the pair costs $519.14 a month less than the single machine, and it brings a second set of cores, memory and drives.
| Per month | 1 server, 20 Gbps | 2 servers, 10 Gbps each |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | $51.86 | $103.72 |
| Ports | $1,629 | $1,058 |
| Total | $1,680.86 | $1,161.72 |
| Fastest single server | 20 Gbps | 10 Gbps |
| Machines to run | 1 | 2 |
Buy the 20 Gbps port when
- The traffic has to leave from one machine: a single origin, a single storage node, a single database primary.
- The service lives behind one IP address that partners or firewalls already trust.
- The data set must exist once. Two servers means a sync job, and a sync job can fall behind.
- Your software is licensed per server or per socket.
Buy two servers when
- The traffic is many independent clients, so a load balancer or DNS can spread it.
- You want the workload to survive one machine failing.
- You need CPU and memory as much as bandwidth.
- You would rather keep the difference in price.
Price per gigabit
Where 20 Gbps sits on the port ladder
The Intel Xeon Silver / Gold line sells every port speed from 10 to 100 Gbps, so it shows the whole ladder on one machine with only the port changing. Going from 10 to 20 Gbps adds $1,100 to the monthly bill. Per gigabit, 20 Gbps is the most expensive step on this line: dearer than 10 Gbps below it and than 40 and 100 Gbps above it.
| 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 your peaks fit in 10 Gbps, the 10 Gbps dedicated server page covers that port. If they run past 40 Gbps, the 100Gbps dedicated server can work out cheaper per gigabit.
Sizing
Can one server fill a 20 Gbps port?
Yes, if storage, memory, the TCP stack and the far end all keep up with 2.5 GB a second. The port is rarely the bottleneck. These three usually are.
Storage
The 20 Gbps lines use SATA and SAS drives. A SATA SSD reads at about 550 MB/s, the limit of its 6 Gb/s link, so streaming cold data at line rate takes five or more of them striped together. Hot data is better served from the page cache: these lines take up to 2 TB of memory.
TCP windows
One flow can carry at most its window divided by the round trip. At 80 ms, a typical New York to Amsterdam path, 20 Gbps needs a window near 200 MB. Current Linux kernels cap the automatic send buffer at 4 MB by default, which holds one flow on that path to about 400 Mbps. Raise net.ipv4.tcp_wmem and tcp_rmem, or run parallel streams.
Cores and queues
Packet processing at this rate spreads across cores through the network card's receive queues (RSS). These lines go up to 128 cores. Check that interrupts land on more than one of them, and serve many connections at once rather than one.
A download is never faster than the slowest link between the two ends. A client on a 1 Gbps line gets 1 Gbps however big our port is. Before you order, trace the route from your own network through our looking glass.
Workloads
Jobs that justify a 20Gbps unmetered server
Size the port to your peak hour, not your monthly total. These jobs have peaks that decide everything.
Origin for a CDN or live video
When a stream starts or a release goes out, every edge node asks the origin at once. The origin's port sets how fast the caches fill and how long the first viewers wait.
Downloads and mirrors
Game patches, OS images, package mirrors, public datasets. Launch day is when the port matters, and a 20 Gbps port serves twice as many clients at the same speed as a 10 Gbps port.
Replication between sites
Backups, storage replicas and training data moved between datacenters. Run the copy as parallel streams and a 100 TB job finishes in about half the time a 10 Gbps port needs.
When it is the wrong buy: a steady monthly total of a few hundred terabytes fits a 1 Gbps port, which moves about 324 TB in thirty days. The unmetered dedicated servers page sizes ports by monthly traffic.
The terms
What unmetered means on a 20 Gbps port
There is no allowance on the port, so there is nothing to exceed and nothing to bill as overage. Section 10 of our terms of service lets us act on use that threatens the platform or its security. It contains no traffic figure.
- Port
- 20 Gbps on one switch port, cabled to your server only
- Port price
- $1,629 a month, added to the machine, the same on every line
- Cheapest machine
- $51.86 a month for the AMD Opteron 6300 line: AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA 500 GB
- Setup fee
- $29 once, shown on the order page before payment
- Transfer allowance
- None
- Overage charges billed
- 0 in 790,586 invoice lines
- Network credit
- Once an outage passes 15 consecutive minutes, one day of the monthly charge per cumulative hour, up to one month. Read the service level agreement
- Support included
- Basic 24×7×12: 12 hours response, hardware replaced within 24 hours. Faster plans start at $19 a month on the support page
- Live chat
- An AI assistant replies in seconds and can look up your account and your server. Ask for a person and one joins
- Cities
- New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest, depending on the line
- Network
- Our own autonomous system, AS19624
- Delivery
- Built to order: the machine is built and the port set up after payment is approved
Answers
Questions about 20Gbps dedicated servers
How much does a 20Gbps dedicated server cost?
The cheapest complete build is $1,680.86 a month: $51.86 for the machine (AMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA 500 GB) and $1,629 for the unmetered 20 Gbps port. Larger processors, more memory and more drives add their own prices in the configurator. A one-time $29 setup fee applies, and paying for 3, 6 or 12 months takes up to 15% off.
Is a 20Gbps unmetered server really unmetered?
Yes. The port carries no transfer allowance and no overage price, and our billing history shows no bandwidth overage charge in 790,586 invoice lines. Run the port at line rate for the whole month and the invoice does not change.
What is a 20Gbps dedicated server port?
A switch port set to 20 Gbps and connected to your server alone. Nothing else shares it, so no other customer's traffic competes for it. It is billed as a fixed monthly line on top of the machine.
How much data can a 20 gigabit server transfer in a month?
About 6,480 TB in thirty days at line rate, which is 2.5 GB every second. A 1 TB file takes 6 minutes 40 seconds. Real traffic rises and falls, so read the monthly figure as a ceiling.
Which servers can take a 20Gbps port?
9 of our 18 configurable lines: AMD Opteron 6300, Intel Xeon E5-2600 v1/v2, Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4, Intel Xeon Silver / Gold, Intel Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2, Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4, AMD EPYC, Ampere Altra Q64-22 and Intel Xeon Gold. The largest builds reach 128 cores or 2 TB of memory. The cheapest is the AMD Opteron 6300 line. Each line's row on this page links to the configurator with the port selected.
Is one 20Gbps server cheaper than two 10Gbps servers?
No, two at 10 Gbps cost less. On the AMD Opteron 6300 line, one server with a 20 Gbps port is $1,680.86 a month and two servers with 10 Gbps ports are $1,161.72. The single port is worth its price when the traffic must stay on one machine: one address, one copy of the data, one origin.
Is the 20 Gbps port one link or two 10 Gbps links bonded?
We confirm that per order, for the line and city you choose. It matters only if a single flow has to go faster than 10 Gbps. If that is why you are buying, say so in chat before you order.
Where can I get a 20Gbps dedicated server?
In New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest, all on our own network, AS19624. Not every line is built in every city. The table on this page lists the cities for each line, and you choose one in the configurator.
Elsewhere on the site
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Build your 20 Gbps server
Pick the line, processor, memory, drives and city. The 20 Gbps port is preselected, and the order page shows the monthly price and setup fee before you pay.