Published: 6 October 2026
Above 20 Gbps, the question stops being "how big a port can I afford" and becomes "can one machine actually feed it". We sell dedicated servers with guaranteed, unmetered ports of 25, 50, 100 and 200 Gbps. A 100 Gbps server starts at €4,499 a month and can move up to 32,400 TB in 30 days, or feed about 20,000 HD video viewers at once. This post covers what each tier costs, which chassis makes sense behind which port, and the workloads that genuinely need this much bandwidth.
Every high bandwidth configuration we sell
| Server | 25 Gbps | 50 Gbps | 100 Gbps | 200 Gbps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dual Xeon Gold 6148, 40 cores, 256 GB DDR4 | €1,799 | €2,799 | €4,499 | Not offered |
| AMD EPYC 9254, 24 cores, 128 GB DDR5 | €2,244 | €3,869 | Not offered | Not offered |
| Dual AMD EPYC 9254, 48 cores, 256 GB DDR5 | €2,474 | €4,099 | Not offered | Not offered |
| Dual AMD EPYC 9554, 128 cores, 512 GB DDR5 | €2,754 | €4,379 | Not offered | Not offered |
| Dual AMD EPYC 9754, 256 cores, 1 TB DDR5 | €3,314 | €4,939 | €7,939 | €13,439 |
Monthly prices, server and port together, no setup fee. The Gold 6148 includes its 25 Gbps port in the base price, which makes it the cheapest way into this class by a wide margin. Gold servers are typically delivered within about an hour, EPYC builds within 14 days.
What each tier moves
| Port | Monthly ceiling | 1080p viewers at 5 Mbps | 4K viewers at 25 Mbps | Time to send 1 TB | Entry price per Gbps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Gbps | 8,100 TB | 5,000 | 1,000 | 5 min 20 s | €71.96 |
| 50 Gbps | 16,200 TB | 10,000 | 2,000 | 2 min 40 s | €55.98 |
| 100 Gbps | 32,400 TB | 20,000 | 4,000 | 80 s | €44.99 |
| 200 Gbps | 64,800 TB | 40,000 | 8,000 | 40 s | €67.20 |
The cheapest gigabit in the whole range is the Gold 6148 on 100 Gbps, at about €45 per Gbps per month. For comparison, a 10 Gbps Xeon at €659 works out at €65.90 per Gbps, and a 20 Gbps Xeon at €1,159 at €57.95. We broke the smaller tiers down in our 10 Gbps cost analysis.
The real question: can the server feed the port?
At 100 Gbps the network card wants 12.5 GB of data every second. Where that data comes from decides which chassis you need.
Serving from RAM: the Gold 6148
The Gold 6148 holds six SATA SSDs. Even six fast SATA drives read only around 3 GB per second together, roughly 25 Gbps. So at 50 or 100 Gbps this machine works best when the hot data lives in its 256 GB of RAM: live streaming relays, where every viewer receives the same few seconds of video, popular file caches, and edge nodes where a small set of objects takes most of the requests. For that kind of traffic it is the most cost effective box we sell.
Serving from disk: the EPYC 9754
If your catalogue is far larger than RAM, for example a video library or a software archive with a long tail, the data has to come off disk at line rate. The dual EPYC 9554 and 9754 take up to 24 NVMe drives (24 × 1 TB for €520 a month, or 24 × 1.98 TB for €820), and a modern NVMe drive alone reads several GB per second. Twenty four of them can feed 100 or 200 Gbps from storage. EPYC also brings PCIe 5.0 and twelve DDR5 memory channels per socket, which is what keeps the data moving between drives, memory and network without a bottleneck. It is also the only chassis we offer at 200 Gbps.
Tuning for very high throughput
- Mind which processor the network card is attached to. On a two socket server the card hangs off one socket. Keep the serving processes and their memory on that side, or every packet takes a detour across the link between the processors.
- Spread the work. One TCP connection will not fill 100 Gbps. Use many connections, spread the card's queues and interrupts across cores, and run enough server workers to keep every queue busy.
- Keep encryption close to the kernel. At these rates HTTPS is the expensive part. Kernel TLS with sendfile avoids copying every byte through user space and is worth testing on any modern Linux.
- Test from many places. No single test client can absorb 100 Gbps. Measure with many machines in different networks at once, or the result will describe your test client, not your server.
Who needs 25 Gbps and up
The honest answer is a small group, and they usually know who they are:
- Live events and sports streaming, where 20,000 people watching at 1080p is already 100 Gbps.
- Video on demand origins sitting behind your own or a commercial CDN, where cache misses arrive in bursts.
- Game and software launches, where a patch day can move more data in one evening than the rest of the month.
- Large dataset distribution, such as research data, AI training sets or busy public mirrors.
- Backup and replication hubs receiving from dozens of sites at the same time.
If your peak is under 20 Gbps, the 10 Gbps and 20 Gbps tiers are cheaper, and most websites are best served by the €209 entry server on 1 Gbps.
One big server or two smaller ones?
Before you buy a single 100 Gbps machine, price the alternative. Two Gold 6148 servers on 50 Gbps in two different countries cost €5,598 a month, against €4,499 for one on 100 Gbps. You pay about €1,100 more, and in exchange a hardware fault, a maintenance window or a network incident in one location only halves your capacity instead of taking you offline. For anything with an audience that notices outages, the pair is usually the better buy.
Ordering
Pick a tier on its page: 25 Gbps, 50 Gbps, 100 Gbps or 200 Gbps. Ports this size are not stocked in every city at every moment, so if you need one in a particular country, or want to plan a launch date around delivery, open a ticket or start a live chat before you order and we will confirm what can be delivered and when.