{"id":45,"date":"2020-07-24T18:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/black.host\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2021-02-02T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T00:00:51","slug":"what-is-unmetered-vps-and-how-we-make-it-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/black.host\/blog\/what-is-unmetered-vps-and-how-we-make-it-possible","title":{"rendered":"What Is Unmetered VPS and How We Make It Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In short Unmetered Virtual Private Server<\/a>, a.k.a VPS is a service on which the outgoing and incoming traffic is unmetered. Some hosting providers are using marketing tricks to advertise their unmetered services as unlimited, which is not the case with the unmetered hosting. Even if the traffic is not counted\/metered, there is still a limitation on how much traffic you can generate. That limitation comes from the bandwidth capacity on the NIC (network interface controller or card) on your VPS or Dedicated server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have this topic covered in more detail in another blog post: Unmetered HOSTING, WHAT is it, and WHY do you need it?<\/a>

But to summarize, the traffic limitation can be seen in the following way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NIC bandwidth<\/td>Monthly traffic<\/td><\/tr>
10Mbps<\/td>~3.3 TB<\/td><\/tr>
100Mbps<\/td>~33 TB<\/td><\/tr>
1Gbps<\/td>~330 TB<\/td><\/tr>
10Gbps<\/td>~3.3 PB<\/td><\/tr>
100Gbps<\/td>~33 PB<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
UNMETERED bandwidth to monthly traffic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back in my early sysadmin days, I imagined the bandwidth as a pipe, where 10 Mbps is a drinking straw, and 100Gbps is a gas pipeline. Now imagine transferring all the water from a lake with the straw, quite a challenge, huh? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As nowadays the golden standard for network capacity on VPS services is 1Gbps, many hosting providers can\u2019t, and many don\u2019t want to offer unmetered services. Thus creating confusion by false advertising unmetered hosting as a ploy, e.g., InMotion hosting, which leads us to one of the main points of this blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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