Unmetered stops at the tier you pick
The three tiers are 250 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 2 Gbps. Pick one. The default is 250 Mbps. None of them is billed as a monthly traffic pack, and none has an overage price per gigabyte. A 1 Gbps port is included in that month’s rate. A large transfer does not open a second traffic invoice.
The rate cap is the tier itself. A 250 Mbps port stays at 250 Mbps. The word unmetered does not raise it to 1 Gbps. A higher rate is a different selection on the order form: 1 Gbps adds $251 a month, 2 Gbps adds $749 a month. The tiers are mutually exclusive.
A 100 Mbps port on a cloud bill is not half of 250 Mbps for ordering purposes. 100 Mbps is that provider’s cap. Read the outbound peak from the last 14 days on that host, then place it on the line below. A peak that often sits near 90 Mbps still fits the default 250 Mbps tier, because it stays under about 150 Mbps. A line that already sits against 100 Mbps all day may be clipped by that port. Look at how fast the workload still wants to run. Doubling 100 is not a reason to jump to 1 Gbps.
Unmetered = no traffic fee. The port is still the 250 Mbps, 1 Gbps, or 2 Gbps tier you selected.
Turn Mbps into MB/s
Monitoring and the price sheet use Mbps. Download, sync, and backup tools usually show MB/s. Divide Mbps by 8. A byte is 8 bits, so 250 ÷ 8 = 31.25, about 31 MB/s. 1 Gbps is 1000 Mbps, and 1000 ÷ 8 = 125 MB/s. 2 Gbps is 2000 Mbps, and 2000 ÷ 8 = 250 MB/s.
A tool that holds about 20 MB/s is about 160 Mbps, still inside the 250 Mbps tier. A continuous transfer near 200 MB/s is 200 × 8 = 1600 Mbps, above 1 Gbps, so it lines up with 2 Gbps. Do not treat MB/s as Mbps. A factor of eight moves the tier.
Match a 14-day outbound peak
Open the last 14 days on the machine you already run. Take the sustained outbound peak, in Mbps. Inbound can be a separate note. Outbound is the number for this choice: pages, APIs, and file sync mostly leave the machine. Do not use “how many GB this month.” That is volume. These three tiers are not priced by volume. A large month with a low peak stays on 250 Mbps.
Sustained means a high point that returns during the working window and holds for a while, not a one-second spike. If the backup window is separate from daytime traffic, write it on its own line. If the graph is a 5-minute average, use the tallest bars in the working window. If you have a 95th percentile, use that. A full-month average is pulled down by idle nights and picks a tier that is too small. Headroom means keeping that sustained peak under about six tenths of the tier. Six tenths of 250 Mbps is about 150 Mbps. This is a planning method, not a promise that the port will deliver full rate at every moment.
| Sustained outbound peak, last 14 days | Choice |
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| Often under about 150 Mbps | Keep 250 Mbps, included in the model price |
| Often about 200–700 Mbps | Move to 1 Gbps, +$251 a month |
| Often about 800 Mbps or more, or a continuous transfer near 200 MB/s | Move to 2 Gbps, +$749 a month |
About 150 Mbps is six tenths of 250 Mbps. A peak that stays under that line leaves room on the default port for a short burst. Six tenths of 1 Gbps is about 600 Mbps. A peak that often sits between 200 and 700 Mbps no longer fits 250 Mbps, and 1 Gbps still leaves headroom near that six-tenths idea, so the step is 1 Gbps. A peak that often reaches about 800 Mbps has little room left on 1 Gbps, so the step is 2 Gbps. Six tenths of 2 Gbps is about 1200 Mbps. A continuous transfer near 200 MB/s is about 1600 Mbps, above 1 Gbps, so it goes to 2 Gbps.
Six tenths, 150 Mbps, 200–700 Mbps, and 800 Mbps are a headroom method before you order. They place your own peak into one of three tiers. They do not state that the port will deliver that fraction on demand.
A full 250 Mbps line for 30 days is about 77 TB
A large transfer does not by itself require a higher tier. First turn a 250 Mbps line, filled for 30 days, into a volume, so “tens of terabytes this month” is not read as “buy 1 Gbps.” The arithmetic is 250 ÷ 8 × 86400 × 30 ÷ 1024 ÷ 1024. 250 Mbps is 31.25 MB each second. A day has 86400 seconds, about 2,700,000 MB. Thirty days are about 81,000,000 MB. In units of 1024, that is about 77 TB.
Those 77 TB are a sense of what the rate tier can move if it never idles. They are not a quota, and they are not a point where extra money starts. None of the three tiers bills that volume. If a month moves more than ten terabytes and the sustained outbound peak still stays under about 150 Mbps, the transfer is spread out. Keep 250 Mbps. The same volume packed into the daily peak, once that peak is above about 200 Mbps, follows the previous section and moves to 1 Gbps. The shape of the peak matters. The GB total on the bill does not.
A 1 Gbps line filled for 30 days is about four times 77 TB, roughly 309 TB. A 2 Gbps line is about eight times, roughly 618 TB. Those figures describe port rate. They do not enter the monthly price. The price gap is $251 or $749, not the terabytes moved.
Two things bandwidth does not change
Disk wait is a disk question. When commits slow down and the queue sits on the data disk, moving to 1 Gbps or 2 Gbps does not turn that wait into a bandwidth problem. How to separate a disk queue from outbound traffic is in Read steal, RAM, and disk queue before leaving the cloud. One sentence belongs here: if outbound is not full, do not raise bandwidth to fix the disk.
When users are in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or mainland China, round-trip time is a separate measurement. A bandwidth tier does not shorten that path. The measurement, and whether a local address is required, is in Round-trip time and a Japan address are separate checks.
If you need more addresses, add IPv4 one by one. Do not raise bandwidth instead of adding an address. Each machine already includes one. Extra addresses are $2 each per month, up to 256 on one machine, not sold as a subnet. The count is in Should you add IPv4, or use the address already included?
Add the surcharge, then multiply by months
Bandwidth joins the monthly total before the term multiplies it. The 128GB model with default 250 Mbps is still $465. With 1 Gbps it is $465 + $251 = $716. With 2 Gbps it is $465 + $749 = $1,214. The 256GB model is $592 by default. With 1 Gbps it is $843. With 2 Gbps it is $1,341. Only one tier can be selected.
| Model | 250 Mbps | 1 Gbps | 2 Gbps |
|---|---|---|---|
| 128GB | $465 / month | $716 / month | $1,214 / month |
| 256GB | $592 / month | $843 / month | $1,341 / month |
The table adds bandwidth only. The monthly total also adds extra disks × $83, extra IPv4 addresses × $2, and the operating-system surcharge. The amount due is that monthly total times the number of months. A quarter is ×3, half a year is ×6, a year is ×12, with no discount. A 128GB model with 1 Gbps for a quarter is $716 × 3 = $2,148. A 256GB model with 2 Gbps for a year is $1,341 × 12 = $16,092.
The machine is an AMD EPYC 7543P, 32 cores / 64 threads, 2.8–3.7 GHz. Memory is DDR4-3200 ECC RDIMM, 128GB or 256GB, chosen on the order. Disks default to 2 × 1TB NVMe, with no hardware RAID. Each disk attaches directly. Usable capacity is 2TB. You can add 0 to 2 extra 2TB disks at $83 each per month, also direct. Servers are deployed in Tokyo, Japan. Linux uses SSH. Windows uses RDP. There is no setup fee. Once the peak falls into a tier, open the order form and select 250 Mbps, 1 Gbps, or 2 Gbps. Memory follows the working set. It is a separate choice from bandwidth.
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Take the sustained outbound peak from the last 14 days
Use Mbps. Keep daytime traffic and the backup window on separate lines. Do not substitute the month’s GB total.
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Multiply MB/s by 8
Mbps = MB/s × 8. 250 Mbps is about 31 MB/s, 1 Gbps is 125 MB/s, 2 Gbps is 250 MB/s.
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Under about 150 Mbps, keep 250 Mbps
That is about six tenths of the default tier. A large month that stays under this line does not need a higher port.
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200–700 Mbps moves to 1 Gbps; about 800 Mbps or more moves to 2 Gbps
1 Gbps adds $251 a month. 2 Gbps adds $749. A continuous transfer near 200 MB/s goes to 2 Gbps. Then multiply the new monthly total by the term.
After the peak is placed, pick the port on the order form
250 Mbps is included. 1 Gbps adds $251 a month. 2 Gbps adds $749 a month. None of the three tiers bills traffic by the gigabyte. You can order before signing in.