10Gbps Dedicated Servers: One Tenant, One Machine
Ten gigabits is the tier where our bare metal line and our VPS line overlap. What you are actually choosing between here is isolation, not speed.
X-ZoneServers 10 Gbps dedicated servers start at €659 per month for a guaranteed 10 Gbps port — 7 bare-metal configurations with up to 3.24 PB of monthly transfer across 12 EU and US datacenter locations. The port is effectively unmetered: hold the full committed rate around the clock, with no overage charges and no fair-use throttling inside your tier.
Most of our tiers only have one answer. This one has two, because X-ZoneServers sells a 10Gbps VPS as well as a 10Gbps dedicated machine, and the port figure on the label is identical. What differs is who else is on the hardware. A VPS shares a physical host, a hypervisor scheduler and a network card with other customers, and it is sold on a different bandwidth model. A dedicated 10Gbps server has exactly one tenant, and that tenant sets every policy on the box: kernel version, core pinning, interrupt affinity, memory placement, and who is allowed to know the machine exists. If you can name what that separation is worth to you, this is the right product. If you cannot name it, the honest answer is that you may not need it yet.
The Capacity Is Committed to One Tenant
A guaranteed 10 Gbps port carries 1250 MB/s of payload. Held for a full 30-day month it moves 3.24 PB, serves 2000 simultaneous 1080p viewers at 5 Mbps or 400 4K viewers at 25 Mbps, and clears a 1 TB dataset in 13 minutes 20 seconds. That part is arithmetic, and arithmetic is the easy part. What single tenancy changes is that these figures behave as a floor instead of an average. Nothing else on the machine is queued behind the same network card, competing for the same interrupt lines or waking the same cores, so the throughput you measure at three in the morning is the throughput you can still plan against at peak. Capacity planning stops being a statistical exercise and becomes a division sum.
Figures use decimal units (1 Gbps = 125 MB/s) across a 30-day month, at 5 Mbps per 1080p stream and 25 Mbps per 4K stream. They describe what the port can carry, not a guarantee of application throughput: disk, CPU and the far end all apply their own limits.
7 configurations at 10Gbps
Dual Xeon E5-2630v3, 16c/32t at 2.4GHz with 128GB DDR4, opens the tier at €659. Dual Xeon E5-2690v4 adds cores at €679 and is the most popular pick here, while the 44c/88t E5-2699v4 with 256GB sits at €749. The single socket EPYC 9254, €1169, gives you 24c/48t at 2.9GHz on DDR5-4800 inside one NUMA node, which is the simplest topology to reason about when you are pinning threads. Dual EPYC 9254 at €1399 doubles that into two nodes, Dual EPYC 9554 brings 128c/256t and 512GB for €1679, and Dual EPYC 9754 tops the tier at €2239 with 256c/512t and 1TB of DDR5. Each of them arrives as a whole machine, so the kernel, the interrupt map and the choice of which cores stay idle for the network path are all yours.
Dual Xeon E5-2630v3
Entry Level
Dual Xeon E5-2690v4
Popular Choice
Dual Xeon E5-2699v4
High Performance
Single EPYC 9254
Entry Level
Dual EPYC 9254
High Performance
Dual EPYC 9554
Ultimate Performance
Dual EPYC 9754
Maximum Performance
What a 10Gbps server is for
Workloads with a separation clause
When a client contract or an internal control set says the data must sit on hardware no other tenant touches, a shared instance cannot satisfy it however fast the port is.
Real-time services that must not jitter
Voice, game and interactive session traffic care about the shape of latency rather than its average. Owning every core and every network queue removes the neighbour that would blur that shape.
Your own hypervisor, your own rules
Run your own virtualization layer on top and you set the NUMA layout, the pinning policy and how far memory is oversubscribed, instead of inheriting decisions made inside somebody else's host.
Steady egress delivery nodes
Cache and delivery endpoints that hold the port busy for hours at a stretch, where the committed tier keeps the invoice known in advance and the packet path is never shared with another tenant's traffic peaks.
What the Isolation Costs
Entry is €659 a month, which works out at €65.9 for each guaranteed gigabit, and seven configurations sit on this tier, running up to €2239. Read that entry figure as the price of exclusivity rather than the price of throughput, because the port speed on its own is also available from the VPS line. The dedicated machine earns the difference when you can point at the specific reason: an auditor who requires separate physical hardware, a latency budget that a co-resident tenant would break, or a tuning profile that only root on real hardware can apply. If none of those describe your workload, and the way the VPS line is sold suits how you buy transfer, we would rather you started there and moved across when the reason actually arrives. Within a tier there are no overage charges, so the monthly figure is the whole figure.
When 5Gbps Is Already Enough Isolation
The 5Gbps machine from €519 is single tenant as well, so if isolation is the reason you came looking, you already have it one tier down. Its 1.62 PB a month covers most single-application workloads comfortably, and the €140 you would spend to come up here buys port capacity, not privacy. Stay where you are until the link itself, rather than the tenancy model, is the thing limiting you.
See 5Gbps serversThe Trigger for 20Gbps
Isolation does not improve at 20Gbps, so the trigger for the extra €500 is arithmetic rather than architecture. Step up once you are consolidating several isolated services onto one machine, or holding the port near line rate for hours every day, and the monthly ceiling here stops feeling comfortable. The 20Gbps tier starts at €1159 and lifts that ceiling to 6.48 PB. Every tuning decision you made carries across unchanged.
See 20Gbps serversAll guaranteed bandwidth tiers
The same hardware range is sold at nine committed port speeds. Compare the entry price of each.
10Gbps dedicated server questions
What actually changes when I move from the 10Gbps VPS to the 10Gbps dedicated server?
Our compliance rules require dedicated hardware. Does this tier satisfy that?
Can a single TCP connection really reach the full 10Gbps?
Does latency stay predictable while the port is saturated?
What do NUMA and IRQ control give me in practice?
Is a 10Gbps guaranteed port the same as an unmetered 10Gbps server?
Not Sure Which Side of the Line You Are On
Tell our own system administrators what your isolation requirement actually is and they will say plainly whether the dedicated 10Gbps machine or the VPS line fits. CPU model, memory to 1TB DDR5, storage and operating system are quoted on request, and deployment takes about an hour.