Knowledge Base

What is the current traffic policy for new C-Servers VPSes?

Starting on April 20th, 2025, C-Servers is introducing a new approach to bandwidth speed and allowances on VPS services for new users.

Previously, we chose to state that bandwidth was unmetered. However, we found actually most customers do prefer to have known limits on their VPS services because, obviously, they don't know on what they can count and they much rather prefer to have known limits. Moreover, having unmetered bandwidth on VPS services has rendered, on some instances, some users to take for example a NanoVPS 512 or 384 and use their VPS service to do several dozen terabytes, which we eventually found it was not compatible, if massified, with the lower cost of these services.

We've been testing these limitations on the business model we wanted to follow with the NanoVPS-II 320, ExtraVPS-6144 and the JumboDisk, with great success.

As such, C-Servers is introducing a hybrid approach for bandwidth, aimed at getting the best of both worlds: guaranteed bandwidth amounts at the start and fixed Internet line speeds per plan after their completion, in a fair use mode. This way, anyone who purchases the VPS knows what is our reference bandwidth amount and knows that, strictly depending on server Internet loads, they can use more or less bandwidth after their guaranteed amount knowing that they won't stay without Internet at any given moment and that, if necessary at a global level, we will rate-limit their speed (but never cut the Internet).

The new VPS bandwidth amounts, for newly created VPSes and plans, are:

NanoVPS-II 320 » 500GB guaranteed @ 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps after completion (fair-use). 
NanoVPS-II 512 » 4 TB guaranteed @ 1 Gbps, 250 Mbps after completion (fair-use).
NanoVPS-II 768 DiskPlus » 8TB guaranteed @ 1 Gbps, full speed after completion (fair-use) // except Finland, 16TB @ 1 Gbps
NanoVPS-II 768 CorePlus » 12TB guaranteed @ 1 Gbps, full speed after completion (fair-use).
CentralVPS-II 2048/2560 » 20TB guaranteed @ 1 Gbps, full speed after completion (fair-use).
ExtraVPS-4096 » 25TB guaranteed @ 1 Gbps, full speed after completion (fair-use).
ExtraVPS-6144 HUGE » 30TB guaranteed @ 1 Gbps, full speed after completion (fair use).

Guaranteed means that no throttling will be applicable on our end and that producing such an amount of traffic is guaranteed to be possible by C-Servers.
It's still a shared Internet line though, so general management terms apply.

After the guaranteed traffic is depleted, starting from DiskPlus and higher plans, 1 Gbps full speed continues just as before in a fair-use basis. This means that, at any moment and depending on global server traffic produced at a given server, bandwidth availability needs, excessive usage that significantly disturbs other users and similar, C-Servers reserves the right to rate-limit, temporarily or permanently, any given VPS to speeds between 10% and 75% of the original maximum speed. We will always give details on that rate limitation via e-mail or ticket.

The same logic applies on NanoVPS-II 512 and 320, although we don't rate-limit below 60 Mbps on these plans.

The TB's of traffic predicted are reference amounts, meaning that it is the expected traffic by us for the pricing and purchased VPS, based on real traffic loads and levels seen at our servers, and what we believe is reasonable for 99.99% of the customers.

Global server traffic available

Each dedicated server deployed has a certain global traffic/bandwidth limit which C-Servers, just like any other provider, must respect. At any moment, any user (pre-purchase and post-purchase) can send us a ticket and ask if a given server has more traffic or less traffic used. 

C-Servers will disclose if a given server has less or more traffic ongoing, in general terms, as a reference (answering e.g. Zeta4 has less traffic currently and you can deploy your project freely; Delta1 has more traffic used, it's not as advisable for what you want to do), and will also advise which server would be most suitable if a user discloses their project and the amount of traffic expected at their VPS, when sending us a ticket.

This will provide for reasonable expectations when using our VPS services past the guaranteed bandwidth amounts.

When does the traffic allowance reset?

At the 1st day of each month.

Is traffic allowance counted as uploads+downloads?

Yes - for predictability purposes, all traffic produced at a given virtual server counts towards the limit, with the exception of internal Virtual Private Cloud traffic.

For previous users with other plans

Traffic allowances will continue to appear at the MultiVPS Portal fully unmetered in the same shared line sense as before, with the full 1 Gbps at all moments, even past the recommended traffic and even in the NanoVPS-384 Original plans. This means absolutely everything stays as it was, even on renewals.

Users can guide themselves by the reference TB traffic amounts corresponding to the equivalent plan (with the exception of NanoVPS-384 Original users, which guide by NanoVPS-II 512), strictly as a standpoint for the traffic levels expected at these plans and for peace of mind (as recommended, but not enforced, traffic levels).