Unmetered 25 Gbps ports
Inbound and outbound traffic are unmetered, with no monthly cap and no egress or overage fees. The Pro 64 and Max 96 have 2 × 25 Gbps.
Streaming & media
Deliver video and downloads without egress bills
Run origin, transcoding and delivery on servers with 25 Gbps ports and unmetered traffic. Your bill stays flat no matter how many terabytes your viewers pull.
Top pick for streaming & media
Pro 48
48 cores and 576 GB of RAM for transcoding ladders, packaging and an in-memory cache of hot segments, with 2 × 7.68 TB NVMe Gen5 and a 25 Gbps port. Ready in minutes in 8 locations.
- Processor
- AMD EPYC 9455P48 cores · 96 threads
- Memory
- 576 GBDDR5-6000 ECC
- Storage
- 2 × 7.68 TBNVMe Gen5
- Network
- 25 GbpsUnmetered traffic
$999/mo
DeployReady in minutes · 8 locations
Benefits
264 TB in one server
The Storage 264 holds twelve 22 TB drives plus NVMe for hot data, enough for a large media library on a single origin.
Cores for transcoding
48 to 64 Zen 5 cores on Pro servers run software encoding ladders, and the GPU L40S adds hardware encoders for AV1, HEVC and H.264.
Protected public endpoints
Always-on DDoS protection filters floods at the network edge, before they reach your ingest and origin servers.
Recommended servers
Three configurations that fit.
Prices per month in USD, excluding taxes, with unmetered traffic and DDoS protection included.
Pro
Pro 48
48 cores and 576 GB of RAM for transcoding ladders, packaging and an in-memory cache of hot segments, with 2 × 7.68 TB NVMe Gen5 and a 25 Gbps port. Ready in minutes in 8 locations.
- AMD EPYC 9455P48 cores · 96 threads
- 576 GBDDR5-6000 ECC
- 2 × 7.68 TBNVMe Gen5
- 25 Gbps portUnmetered traffic
Storage264 TB raw
Storage 264
264 TB raw on twelve drives plus 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe, behind a 25 Gbps port: a single-server origin for VOD libraries, archives and large download catalogs at $699/mo.
- AMD EPYC 4565P16 cores · 32 threads
- 128 GBDDR5 ECC
- 12 × 22 TBHDD + 3.84 TB NVMe
- 25 Gbps portUnmetered traffic
Pro
Pro 64
Two 25 Gbps ports, 64 cores and four NVMe Gen5 drives for busy edge or origin nodes that serve and transcode at the same time. $1,349/mo, ready in minutes.
- AMD EPYC 9555P64 cores · 128 threads
- 768 GBDDR5-6000 ECC
- 4 × 3.84 TBNVMe Gen5
- 2 × 25 Gbps portUnmetered traffic
Architecture and sizing
How to run it well.
01
What a 25 Gbps port delivers
Capacity planning for delivery starts with arithmetic. As an estimate, a 25 Gbps port divided by a 5 Mbps 1080p stream gives 5,000 concurrent viewers at line rate. Plan for about 80% sustained utilization to absorb bursts: roughly 4,000 viewers at 1080p, or about 1,300 at 15 Mbps for 4K.
Because traffic is unmetered, the port can run at that level around the clock with no per-GB charge. At 80% utilization for 30 days, a 25 Gbps port moves about 6.5 PB, and the monthly price doesn't change.
Disks must keep up with the port. Serving 25 Gbps without a cache means reading about 3.1 GB/s, which a hard-drive array cannot sustain on scattered reads. Keep hot titles and live segments in RAM and on NVMe, and let the disks hold the long tail.
Beyond one server, add nodes: the Pro 64 and Max 96 have 2 × 25 Gbps ports and the Max 192 has 2 × 100 Gbps.
02
Origin, cache and transcoding architecture
A layout that scales from one server to many:
- Ingest: SRT or RTMP into a media server such as SRS, MediaMTX or OvenMediaEngine.
- Transcode: FFmpeg builds the bitrate ladder. Software encoders such as x264 and SVT-AV1 scale with cores, so measure one ladder with your presets and multiply. A GPU L40S offloads encoding to NVENC, including AV1.
- Package: HLS and DASH, using CMAF segments to serve both from one set of files.
- Origin and cache: NGINX or Varnish in front of the segment store, with hot segments in RAM.
- Edge: a CDN, or FlexDedi servers in other locations pulling from your origin.
Once you grow, put the stages on separate servers linked by a free private VLAN in the same location, so a transcoding spike never starves delivery. Internal traffic is not billed, and public traffic is unmetered, so origin fills to a CDN or to your own edge nodes add nothing to the bill.
03
Storing large media libraries
The Storage 264 has twelve 22 TB drives, 264 TB raw, plus two 1.92 TB NVMe drives. The layout decides usable space and rebuild risk:
| Layout | Usable (estimate) | Survives |
|---|---|---|
| RAID 6 or RAIDZ2 across 12 drives | ~220 TB | any 2 drive failures |
| Two 6-drive RAIDZ2 groups | ~176 TB | 2 failures per group |
| RAID 10 | ~132 TB | 1 failure per mirror pair |
Estimates are before file-system overhead. Large drives take a long time to rebuild, so double parity is the safer default for a library you can't easily re-create.
Use the NVMe pair for the OS and a cache of hot titles, and put a Pro server with plenty of RAM in front when one origin is not enough. Keep a second copy elsewhere: an origin is not a backup, and servers are unmanaged, so backups are yours to run. A second Storage 264 in another location (Ashburn, Los Angeles, Amsterdam or Frankfurt) makes a simple target.
Your stack
Runs what you already use.
Full root access and one-click images for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Windows Server and Proxmox VE, or your own ISO through the KVM console.
- FFmpeg
- NGINX
- Varnish
- SRS
- MediaMTX
- OvenMediaEngine
- Shaka Packager
- GStreamer
- ZFS
FAQ
Streaming & media, answered.
Is traffic really unmetered on streaming servers?
Yes. Every server includes unmetered traffic on its port, inbound and outbound, with no monthly cap and no egress or overage fees. As an estimate, a 25 Gbps port running at 80% for a month moves about 6.5 PB, and the price stays the same.
Do I still need a CDN?
It depends on where your viewers are. With 10 locations you can run your own edge nodes close to large audiences, and a common pattern is to use FlexDedi servers as the origin behind a CDN for the long tail. Unmetered traffic means origin fills cost nothing extra on our side.
Can I transcode on a GPU?
Yes. The GPU L40S includes NVIDIA hardware encoders and decoders with AV1, HEVC and H.264 support, usable through FFmpeg or GStreamer. It is assembled to order and usually delivered the same day in Ashburn, Dallas, Amsterdam or Frankfurt.
How much usable space does the Storage 264 give?
It has 264 TB raw across twelve 22 TB drives. As an estimate, RAID 6 or RAIDZ2 across all twelve gives about 220 TB before file-system overhead, and RAID 10 about 132 TB. The two 1.92 TB NVMe drives are separate and suit the OS and a hot cache.
Which locations have 25 Gbps servers?
The Pro 32 and Pro 48 have 25 Gbps ports in New York, Ashburn, Dallas, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Singapore. The Storage 264 is available in Ashburn, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, and the Pro 64 offers 2 × 25 Gbps in six locations. In Tokyo and Sydney, Core servers have 10 Gbps ports.
Start with Pro 48.
Our top pick for streaming & media costs $999/mo with unmetered traffic and DDoS protection included. Or let an engineer size the whole setup with you.
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