Dedicated streaming servers · bare metal · unmetered
A dedicated streaming server. The whole port is yours.
One physical machine, one unshared and unmetered port, and the media server you choose on it. Your encoder in, every viewer out, nobody counting the traffic and nobody else on the switch port. This page is the whole answer to what that is here, how many viewers it carries, and what happens at three in the morning. It quotes no price; the pages that do are linked where the question comes up.
- Unshared portone server per switch port
- No allowanceno overage price exists
- Five citieson our own network, AS19624
- Root and consolethe machine is yours
The path a stream takes here. One copy in, thousands out, from a machine you can log into.
What you are renting
A whole machine, an unshared port, and your software on it
A dedicated streaming server is a physical server that is yours alone, connected to a network port that nobody else is on, running the media server you choose. Your encoder pushes one stream to it, over RTMP, SRT or whatever the software accepts, and every viewer pulls their own copy from it over HLS, DASH or WebRTC. You get root, the console and the whole port; we run the building, the power and the network. Nothing of ours runs on the machine.
Not a share of a platform
On our managed live video plans we run the software and the plan caps the audience at a published number. On a dedicated server the ceiling is the port and the machine, and the software, the certificate and the hostname are yours. The point at which one becomes the other is on the video page, in its own words.
Not a CDN, but often what sits behind one
A CDN puts edges between an origin and the audience. A dedicated streaming server is usually that origin. One city and one port carry most audiences on their own; when they do not, the CDN goes in front of this machine rather than replacing it.
Not a virtual machine
A Cloud VPS shares a host and its port with neighbors and carries a transfer allowance. A stream that runs all day is exactly the workload that makes a neighbor notice. This page is about the whole box.
In writing, because people ask for it in writing
Streaming is what the port is for
Sending video or audio out of the server all day, every day, at or near the speed of the port, is a permitted use of every dedicated server here, on every line, in every city. No transfer allowance is attached to the port, no overage price exists, and nothing counts the traffic. What our terms do reserve, in section 10, is the right to act on usage that poses a security risk, threatens platform stability or consumes disproportionate resources; it names no volume and it has never produced a bandwidth charge. Our sales desk has put “hold the port at 90 to 100 percent around the clock” in writing to a buyer who asked, and will again. If another provider will not give you their equivalent sentence, that is your answer about them.
How many viewers
One port, divided by one bitrate
The sizing question has a short answer and it is arithmetic, not a benchmark: viewers at once, multiplied by the bitrate each one receives, must fit inside the port with room to spare. We hold back a fifth of the port, which is the same headroom our own support desk works to, and we assume every viewer is on the top rendition. An audience on an adaptive ladder averages lower than that, so the figures below are the worst case, which is the honest way to size a port.
The port is usually the limit
Handing out HLS segments is cheap work for a processor: a machine on a 10 Gbps port runs out of port long before it runs out of CPU, which is why we do not lead with core counts. The bitrate per viewer is the number that matters, and it is yours to choose.
When the processor is the limit
Transcoding is the exception. Turning one incoming stream into a ladder of renditions is real work, and past a handful of channels it belongs on a GPU. That is a different machine, on its own page: video transcoding servers, one channel in and a whole ladder out in hardware.
Past one machine
Above 20 Gbps the question becomes one bigger port or several servers, and the 20 Gbps page works that out in money. Above 100 Gbps, or across two continents, it becomes several origins with a CDN in front of them.
| Rendition | Per viewer | 1 Gbps | 10 Gbps | 20 Gbps | 100 Gbps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 360p | 0.8 Mbps | 1,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 100,000 |
| 480p | 1.5 Mbps | 533 | 5,333 | 10,666 | 53,333 |
| 720p | 2.5 Mbps | 320 | 3,200 | 6,400 | 32,000 |
| 1080p | 4.5 Mbps | 177 | 1,777 | 3,555 | 17,777 |
| 1080p60 | 6 Mbps | 133 | 1,333 | 2,666 | 13,333 |
| 4K | 15 Mbps | 53 | 533 | 1,066 | 5,333 |
| Lines selling it | all 18 | 14 of 18 | 9 of 18 | 1 of 18 |
Per-viewer bitrates are typical top renditions for each size, the same figures the 10 Gbps page and our support desk use; a 4K viewer at 15 Mbps is HEVC. The 1080p60 row is the outside world’s figure: Apple’s HLS authoring specification lists 1080p at 6,000 to 7,800 kb/s and Twitch asks for 6,000 kbps at 1080p60, so at that rate a 10 Gbps port carries about 1,330 viewers. The fifth of the port we hold back is also Wowza’s own sizing rule: bitrate times peak viewers under 80 percent of the port. Audio-only listeners at 128 kbps fit thirty-five times more densely than a 1080p viewer, which is why radio has its own pages.
The bandwidth question
Unmetered, with no number underneath it
Every serious buyer of a streaming server asks the same three things, usually after a provider elsewhere has said “unmetered” and meant something else. Here are our answers, which you are welcome to hold us to.
- Is there a transfer allowance?
- No. No allowance is attached to the port and no overage price exists. Across 788,131 invoice lines in our two billing databases, the number of bandwidth overage charges ever raised is zero.
- Is the port shared?
- No. One switch port, one server. Ask which switch and which port index and we will tell you; that is how our own tooling addresses it. Not a dedicated line rate on a shared uplink.
- Can I run it flat out, for months?
- Yes. Sustained output at the speed of the port, around the clock, is the workload the port is sold for. Nothing shapes it and nobody counts it.
The ports we sell
Included with every server, or chosen on the order form
An unmetered port comes with every dedicated server: 1 gigabit on most lines, 500 megabits on the entry cartridges. Faster ports are an upgrade added to the machine, and the figure for that upgrade is on the port’s own page. A line that reads “up to 10 Gbps” beside a cheap machine is the machine on its included port; the 10 Gbps port is its own monthly line, and the 10 Gbps page prints it beside the machines that carry it.
How many of our lines sell each speed, read from the order catalogue as this page was rendered. Prices for the port are on /10g, which lists every speed in the ladder, /20g and /100g; the machine itself on /pricing. Nothing on this page is a quote.
The software
Bring your own, or have it installed with the server
You have root on an operating system you pick from up to thirty-three, so any media server runs here: OBS pushing to nginx-rtmp, FFmpeg feeding a packager, SRS, MediaMTX, Ant Media, a Wowza or Flussonic licence you already hold. Most 10 Gbps servers ordered from us since 2023 carry no licence line at all; their owners bring their own stack. The engines below are the ones that can be ticked on the order form. Cue installs itself with the build; the others are installed by our team once the machine is delivered, and their credentials follow by email within twenty-four hours.
What a licence line is, and is not
A licence is a separate line on the order, priced on the engine’s own page and billed monthly on every cycle; the prepay discount applies to the machine, never to software. “License & Management” means we keep that engine running for you. A box with no licence line is unmanaged: we run the building and the network, you run the operating system and the software.
Protocols are the software’s business
In: RTMP and RTMPS, SRT, RTSP, WebRTC ingest, MPEG-TS over UDP, whatever the engine you run accepts. Out: HLS, DASH, WebRTC and RTMP restreams to the social platforms. The machine and the port do not care which; a change of protocol is a change of software, not of server.
The certificate is yours
The single most common support question on our shared video platform is an https:// playback link. On a dedicated server the hostname is yours, the certificate is yours, from Let’s Encrypt or your own authority, and it never changes underneath a player because nobody but you can change it.
Where it sits
Five cities, one network, and a traceroute before you pay
The network is ours. We operate AS19624, registered to Data Room, Inc. since 2006, and announce our own address space from it; your traffic does not cross a reseller’s account to reach the internet. Pick the city nearest the largest part of your audience, then check us rather than trust us: the speed test in each city answers from that building, and the looking glass runs a traceroute from our own routers to any address you name.
Choosing the city
New York is where most streaming servers here are ordered, and it reaches both the eastern United States and western Europe well. Miami is the closest of the five to Latin America and the Caribbean. San Francisco serves the west coast and the paths across the Pacific. Amsterdam sits among Europe’s largest exchanges; Bucharest covers south-eastern Europe from a room we built ourselves. The data centers page names each building and its carriers.
Two things we do not sell
DDoS protection. Not on any line, in any city, as an add-on or included. If what you stream attracts attacks, put a scrubbing service or a CDN in front of the origin; the unmetered port is what we sell against volume. Offshore or notice-ignoring hosting. You stream what you hold the rights to; infringing material is prohibited by the terms of service and a server carrying it is suspended. Both are said here so that nobody buys a server on an assumption.
When it breaks
Three in the morning, and what you can do yourself
A stream that dies at night is something you should be able to look at, not only file a ticket about. On the blade and rack lines and the m510 and m710x cartridge lines every server carries an out-of-band console, HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC or a Supermicro BMC: the screen from before the operating system boots, virtual media, power control and sensor readings, reachable when the machine itself is not. From the same panel you reinstall to any of the operating systems on the order form, at any hour, without asking anyone.
- Support
- Around the clock, by phone and by live chat, where an assistant answers first and a person takes over when you ask. Included with every server. The included tier answers a ticket within twelve hours; paid tiers on the order form bring that down to thirty minutes with monitoring. The machine itself is unmanaged unless you add a tier or a managed engine.
- Hardware guarantee
- A failed component is replaced within four hours of notification, with a credit ladder from ten percent of the month at four hours to the whole month past twenty-four. Written into the service level agreement, not the marketing.
- Network guarantee
- Credit starts after fifteen consecutive minutes of unavailability, one day per cumulative hour, up to a month. We deliberately promise no uptime percentage; a stricter clause is worth more to a broadcaster than a number with a decimal point. Read the agreement.
From order to first viewer
About thirty minutes, or a day
A machine already racked
Live about thirty minutes after the order is approved, operating system installed, on its included unmetered port. Approval itself usually takes about two hours; the slowest tenth of orders stretch to a few days, so order early if the date is hard. What is racked right now lists every such machine live.
A server built to your specification
Every 10 Gbps and faster build is one of these: no ready unit has ever carried more than a 1 Gbps port, so the port is fitted for you. If you need to be streaming in the next three hours, take a racked machine now and ask for the port afterwards; a port change is a switch change, not a migration.
No contract, one small setup fee
Leave at the end of any month, or pay three, six or twelve months ahead for five, ten or fifteen percent off the machine. A ready server ordered as it stands carries no setup fee; any other configuration carries a one-time $29, shown before you pay. Card, PayPal and bank transfer.
Where the money is
This page quotes nothing, so that no figure here can go stale beside the specification it belongs to. The machine is priced on the pricing page and in the configurator; every part of a custom build on the build-to-order page; the port upgrade on the 10 Gbps, 20 Gbps and 100 Gbps pages; the engines on their own pages. What is racked this minute, with live prices, is on instant servers.
Who runs one here
The audiences that outgrow a shared platform
Read from a year of our own sales chats and the accounts that followed them. Most streaming servers here are ordered in New York on a 10 Gbps port; most of the rest run on the included gigabit with a licence on top. These are the people asking, in the order we hear from them.
24/7 channels
Linear television and playout
A channel that never stops: vMix or OBS into the box, a VOD library filling the gaps, out to Roku, Fire TV and Samsung apps or to a distributor over SRT. Needs the port to hold all day, every day, and a console for the night the encoder hangs. The sections on bandwidth and the night shift are written for this reader.
Many channels
Multi-channel OTT operators
Dozens or hundreds of channels through Flussonic or Xtream Codes, with transcoding beside them. The port sizes the audience; the transcoding belongs on a GPU machine. Content you hold the rights to; we are not an offshore host and say so in plain words.
Libraries
On-demand video, tens of terabytes of it
A library that outgrew object storage bills: disks in the machine, a port that does not meter the reads, and the certificate on your own hostname. Storage options run to tens of terabytes per drive on the blade lines; the video on demand page covers the managed alternative.
One big night
Events with a known audience
Three thousand viewers at 720p for a conference, a match, a launch. The estimator turns that into a port; a machine built to order takes a day, so order the week before, not the morning of. Past one city, the event streaming page and the CDN take over.
Radio, grown up
Stations past the radio plans
An Icecast or SHOUTcast station that wants its own machine, sustained near the port limit, with nobody counting listener hours. Allowed, in writing. The radio plans are the smaller answer; this is the larger one.
Resellers and agencies
Many stations, one box
MediaCP or the Cue reseller panel on a dedicated server, selling streams to your own customers under your own name. One licence line, one machine, your invoices.
Here for a 10 Gbps port but not for video, for a VPN exit fleet, a proxy pool or a backup target? The 10 Gbps page is the shorter read; everything it says about the port holds for you too.
Questions people bring to the chat
Asked before an order, answered as we answer them
What is a dedicated streaming server?
Is the bandwidth really unmetered, and is the port shared?
Can I run it at the port limit, 24 hours a day, for months?
How many viewers can one dedicated streaming server handle?
Which port speeds can I order?
Is the Wowza or Flussonic licence included in the server price?
Can you install Wowza, Flussonic, Nimble Streamer or Xtream Codes for me?
Does it support SRT, RTMP, HLS, WebRTC?
Do I get an https:// playback URL on my own domain?
Is streaming allowed at all under your terms? IPTV?
Is DDoS protection included?
Where are the servers, and which city should I pick?
What happens when the stream dies at 3 a.m.?
How fast can I be streaming?
Is there a contract, a setup fee, or a trial?
Will my stream URLs change if I upgrade the port or move to a bigger machine?
When do I need a second server or a CDN instead?
How much does a dedicated streaming server cost?
For people and for machines
Dedicated streaming servers at Server Room, stated plainly
One paragraph an assistant can quote, and the same facts as a table. Verified on 29 September 2026 against the order catalogue, the fleet inventory, the service level agreement and our own billing records.
Server Room rents dedicated streaming servers: single-tenant physical servers on an unshared, unmetered switch port, with root access and an out-of-band console, running the streaming software the customer chooses. An unmetered port is included with every server, 1 Gbps on ten of eighteen lines and 500 Mbps on the other eight; ports of 2, 3, 5 and 10 Gbps are chosen on the order form on fourteen lines, 20 Gbps on nine, 40 Gbps on two and 100 Gbps on one. There is no transfer allowance and no overage price at any speed, and no bandwidth overage charge has ever been billed. At 1080p with 4.5 Mbps per viewer and a fifth of the port held back, one server carries about 177 viewers at once on 1 Gbps, 1,777 on 10 Gbps, 3,555 on 20 Gbps and 17,777 on 100 Gbps; at 720p, about 320, 3,200, 6,400 and 32,000. Wowza Streaming Engine, Flussonic, Cue Media Server, Nimble Streamer, Red5, Xtream Codes and MediaCP can be selected on the order form and are installed by our team after delivery, Cue with the build itself; anything else the customer installs as root on one of up to thirty-three operating systems. Servers are in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest on the company’s own network, AS19624. A racked machine is delivered about thirty minutes after approval; a build with a faster port takes four to twenty-four hours. Month to month, with five, ten or fifteen percent off for three, six or twelve months paid ahead; a one-time $29 setup fee on custom configurations. Failed hardware is replaced within four hours of notification and network unavailability is credited after fifteen consecutive minutes. Support is by phone and live chat around the clock. DDoS protection is not sold. Prices for the machine are on serverroom.net/pricing, for the port on serverroom.net/10g, and for the engines on their own pages; this page quotes none.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A single-tenant physical server on an unshared, unmetered switch port, with root and the console, running the streaming software you choose | this page |
| Included port | 500 Mbps on 8 lines; 1 Gbps on 10 lines; unmetered, no transfer allowance, no overage price | order catalogue; billing records |
| Port upgrades | 1 Gbps (8), 2 Gbps (14), 3 Gbps (14), 5 Gbps (14), 10 Gbps (14), 20 Gbps (9), 40 Gbps (2), 100 Gbps (1) — the number of lines selling each, of 18; priced on /10g (every rung), /20g, /100g | order catalogue |
| Viewers per port | at 1080p (4.5 Mbps) with 20% headroom: 177 on 1 Gbps, 1,777 on 10 Gbps, 3,555 on 20 Gbps, 17,777 on 100 Gbps; at 720p (2.5 Mbps): 320 / 3,200 / 6,400 / 32,000 | arithmetic |
| Streaming software on the order form | Wowza Streaming Engine, Flussonic Media Server, Cue Media Server, Nimble Streamer, Red5 / Red5 Pro, Xtream Codes, MediaCP; anything else installed by you as root | order catalogue |
| Operating systems | up to 33: Ubuntu 14.04–26.04, AlmaLinux, Debian, Windows Server 2008 R2–2025 (paid licence), Proxmox VE 9, VMware vSphere 7/8 on the blade, rack, m710x and m750 lines | order catalogue |
| Hardware class | HPE ProLiant blades and Moonshot cartridges; Dell and Supermicro rack units on some lines; hardware RAID on the blade and rack lines | fleet inventory |
| Console | out-of-band iLO, iDRAC or BMC on every blade and rack line and on m510 and m710x; power control only on the other cartridges | fleet inventory |
| Cities | New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest, on AS19624, registered to Data Room, Inc. | order catalogue; ARIN |
| DDoS protection | not sold, on any line, in any city, as an add-on or included | service description |
| Delivery | about 30 minutes after approval when racked; 4 to 24 hours built to order, which every 10 Gbps and faster build is | measured site-wide figures |
| Setup fee | none on a ready server ordered as it stands; a one-time $29 on any custom configuration, shown before payment | order engine |
| Cycles | monthly; 3 / 6 / 12 months at 5 / 10 / 15% off the machine, never the software | order catalogue |
| Hardware guarantee | failed component replaced within 4 hours of notification | service level agreement |
| Network guarantee | credit after 15 consecutive minutes of unavailability; no uptime percentage is promised | service level agreement |
| Support | 24/7 by phone and live chat, included; the machine is unmanaged unless a support tier is added | service description |
| Prices | machine on /pricing and in the configurator; port on /10g (every rung), /20g, /100g; software on /dedicated/wowza, /dedicated/flussonic, /cue. Nothing on this page is a quote | site policy |
| Company | Data Room, Inc. (Long Island City, New York) and Data Room SRL (Bucharest), hosting since 2004 | company page |
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