Looking for a fancy calculator that estimates how much your VM instance will cost based on the egress/ingress traffic you will consume, only to be bill-shocked at the end of the month?

If so, we’re sorry to disappoint you.

We’re an unmetered hosting provider, so the price you see on our website will actually appear on your bill throughout the year. Yeah, that’s right, no “per-GiB”, no “cross-zone egress”, no “95th percentile surprise”, no “please talk to sales for pricing above 10TB”, no “fair use” in the footnotes, just a simple price.

But if you prefer a per-GiB price

We can do the math…
Let’s take our most popular unmetered VPS hosting plans: UNM 4 vCores

  • The Bill: $26.99 per month
  • The Port: 1 Gbps
  • The Traffic: ~301,749 GiB /month
  • The Math: The Bill / The traffic = $0.000089 per GiB.

Yep, you’re reading that right: that’s four zeros after the decimal point, which, compared to the big three cloud providers, is lower by orders of magnitude.

Demystifying the magic number of: 301,749 GiB

You might be thinking: Why are we talking about “traffic limits” when we sell unmetered?
Well, let’s clear up some things, first and foremost, unmetered ≠ unlimited, as we’ve covered in a blog post back in 2016. Unlike Q_rsqrt the number of 301,749 GiB is not magical, it’s just the law of physics, and it’s quite easy to calculate it using this formula:

Traffic (GB) = Time (s) * Bandwidth (Gbps) / 8

Which leads us to:

  • Time = 30 days x 24 hours/day x 3600 seconds/hour = 2,592,000 seconds
  • Bandwidth = 1 Gbps / 8 = 0.125 GB/sec (since 1 byte = 8 bits)

So now let’s multiply them, 2,592,000 s x 0.125 GB/s = 324,000 GB, which, when converted to binary units, gibibytes, equals 301,749 GiB/month, which is the theoretical limit of what a 1 Gbps connection could achieve if fully utilized over 30 days.

Sounds too good to be true? Well, in reality, network overhead, protocol inefficiencies, and real-world usage mean you’ll never hit this mark, but you can get quite near it.

The Solution Isn’t a Better Calculator

When we launched our first unmetered services in 2014, our philosophy was simple: you shouldn’t need a calculator for your hosting bill. That’s still the idea.

Fast-forward to 2025, and it seems the web hosting industry still faces the same issues, only this time, under the guise of scalability, and it’s written in YAML.

The solution is obvious, and it has a name: unmetered.
No drama, no surprises, just the same boring bill every month.

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