Unmetered servers, and what that word should mean
You buy a port and you may fill it. No counter running in the background, no allowance to blow through, no invoice at the end of the month for traffic you could not predict. It is what we are known for.
Why most “unmetered” is not
The word is used loosely. Somewhere in the small print there is a fair-use clause, a shaping policy that kicks in at a third of the port, or a bill that arrives when you actually use what you bought. The port is unmetered; the service is not.
Ours works because of how we buy capacity: for the traffic our customers actually push, not against the hope that nobody uses theirs. That is more expensive to run and it is the reason we can write this paragraph without a footnote.
No overselling, anywhere. The cores, the memory and the port you pay for are yours alone.
What you can get
- 1, 10, 25 and 100 Gbit ports, unmetered or metered by the month
- Redundant paths to the major backbones, so peak hours stay flat
- Basic DDoS protection as standard, large attacks absorbed upstream
- IPv4 and IPv6, more addresses on request
- Your own IP space announced from our network
- Routing we own, so a bad path is something we can actually fix
- Remote KVM, power control and free reinstalls on every machine
- A free DirectAdmin licence, included
How much pipe do you actually need?
Think in hours rather than gigabits. Fifty terabytes takes four and a half days on 1 Gbit, eleven hours on 10 Gbit and just over an hour on 100 Gbit. Put your own numbers in the calculator and the answer is usually obvious.
And remember the floor, not the peak: what matters is what happens during your busiest hour, not what the graph averages.
Who runs unmetered here
- Backup and storage platforms moving large volumes on a schedule
- Media and download infrastructure with unpredictable peaks
- Mirrors, repositories and distribution nodes
- Virtualisation hosts serving many customers from one machine
- Anyone tired of explaining a traffic invoice to their finance department
What is not welcome is on the acceptable use page, in plain language. A big port is not an invitation.
Price an unmetered machine
Tell us the workload and the port you have in mind. You get a configuration and a price, usually well within the day.