2Gbps Dedicated Servers: The Second Gigabit as Reserve
Nobody architects a service around two gigabits. You buy the second one because the first is peaking and the next real design tier costs about double the whole machine.
X-ZoneServers 2 Gbps dedicated servers start at €259 per month for a guaranteed 2 Gbps port — 7 bare-metal configurations with up to 648 TB 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.
Ports rarely fail gracefully. They fill, and then everything behind them slows at once: page loads, backup windows, even the health checks your monitoring relies on to tell you what is wrong. Once a gigabit link is running near its ceiling through the evening, the question stops being which capacity you need and becomes when you will act on it, on an afternoon of your choosing or at two in the morning on somebody else's. That is what this step changes. It is not a bigger design, it is the same design with the pressure taken off, and its real product is that it converts an urgent decision into a scheduled one.
What 250 MB/s Buys, and Why the Number Is Exactly Twice
The port moves 250 MB/s sustained and 648 TB over a thirty-day month, committed rather than best effort, with no overage charges inside the tier. The more useful way to read those figures is structural. Two gigabit links running flat out fit inside this port exactly, with nothing spare, and this is the smallest absolute step anywhere in the range. If you are arriving from one saturated port, the practical reading is room to roughly double before the same pressure returns. Measured against the tiers above, that is not a lot of runway, and it is not meant to be. What matters is that none of it requires changing how the service is built: the same application, the same deployment, the same operational habits, on a link that is no longer the first thing to give way.
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 2Gbps
Seven builds carry this port, and they do not all pay the same for it. The three Dual Xeon E5 machines take €50 for the second gigabit: €259 for the E5-2630v3, €279 for the E5-2690v4 that most customers choose, €349 for the E5-2699v4. The four EPYC builds take €80: €529 for the single EPYC 9254, €759 for the dual 9254, €1039 for the dual EPYC 9554 and €1599 for the dual EPYC 9754. The two lines are priced differently for the same extra gigabit at every step of this ladder, but the direction is not constant, and this is the step where it favours Xeon. Here the Xeon builds take €50 against the EPYC €80. One rung further, from two gigabits to five, that reverses to €260 on Xeon against €240 on EPYC. The practical reading at this step is simple: the Xeon line is the cheaper place to buy the reserve, while the EPYC line is where you buy it because the processor was already going to be EPYC.
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 2Gbps server is for
Streaming catalogues where the 4K share is the real variable
The ceiling is 400 concurrent 1080p streams or 80 at 4K, and almost nobody sits at either end. What decides your number is the mix: each viewer who moves up to 4K costs five of the 1080p ones. The input to size on is therefore the share of your audience on the larger profile, not the size of the audience.
Restore windows that have to close before the working day
Wire time for a terabyte is 1 h 6 min at this speed, and the figure that matters is not the average night but the worst one. Halving transfer time does not make a backup better in any technical sense. It decides whether a restore finishes inside the maintenance window or is still running when the first users arrive.
Cache origins that must not become the bottleneck behind a CDN
An origin is sized for misses, not for hits, and miss rates move for reasons outside your control: a purge, a new edge region, one badly set header on a popular object. A doubled uplink means an unexpected miss storm is served slowly rather than refused outright, which is the behaviour an origin actually gets judged on.
Release days and patch days on a machine sized for normal ones
Distribution traffic is bursty in a way that monthly averages conceal: eleven quiet days, then everybody downloads within the same hour. Sizing the link for the median leaves the launch window rationed, and this step is usually bought so that the spike day is merely busy instead of a queue of failed downloads.
A Line Item, Not a Budget Conversation
The step from one gigabit to two costs €50 to €80 a month depending on platform. Set against the machine underneath it, that is an adjustment rather than a decision, which is precisely why it tends to be approved quickly, and why it is worth approving before the port is already full rather than after. On the entry build the per-gigabit figure improves as well, to €129.50, though that is a by-product of the step and not a reason for taking it. Nobody buys a second gigabit for the unit economics of a second gigabit. They buy it because the alternative on the table sits at a price point that needs a different approval, and because a modest recurring cost is far easier to defend than a larger recurring line.
When the Single Gigabit Is Still the Right Answer
Stay on 1Gbps, from €209, if your peak sits comfortably under the port and your growth is steady rather than lumpy. A link that touches its ceiling for twenty minutes on a Sunday evening is busy, not saturated, and paying to double it changes nothing you would notice. The step becomes worth buying when the ceiling is being reached on ordinary weekdays, or when a single unplanned event would take the service down with it.
See 1Gbps serversThe Signal That You Have Outgrown the Reserve
Move up to 5Gbps, from €519, when the doubled port stops behaving as reserve and becomes the working level, or when one planned event, a launch or a bulk migration, needs more than this port can give it on its own. The hardware does not have to follow you: the same seven chassis are sold at 5Gbps and again at 10Gbps. The platform only changes at 20Gbps, where the Xeon E5 line ends.
See 5Gbps serversAll guaranteed bandwidth tiers
The same hardware range is sold at nine committed port speeds. Compare the entry price of each.
2Gbps dedicated server questions
I have two machines that each peak at a gigabit. Will one 2Gbps server really hold both?
If nobody designs a service around two gigabits, what is this tier actually for?
We peak at a gigabit for two hours a night and sit near idle otherwise. Is a second gigabit wasted?
Is buying two gigabits just a way of putting off the 5Gbps decision?
Two saturated gigabits fit this port exactly. Should I plan to use all of it?
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