Unmetered VPS Netherlands: What a 1 Gbps Port Moves and What It Costs

Type "unmetered VPS Netherlands" into a search engine and many listings promise the same thing: a fast port, no limits, a low price. The useful questions are narrower. How much can the port actually move? At what volume does unmetered beat a quota? When is a VPS the wrong tool? This guide answers all three for NexonHost's UNEX1 to UNEX4 plans in the Netherlands region, with the arithmetic shown.

What unmetered means on UNEX, and what NEX meters

Two of NexonHost's Linux VPS families come in the same four sizes. NEX plans are metered: a monthly transfer allowance on a 10 Gbps port. UNEX plans are unmetered: no transfer quota, on a 1 Gbps port. What many searches call unlimited bandwidth is, on these plans, unmetered transfer: no quota, but the port speed is still a limit.

Prices are a month on monthly billing, excluding VAT. Annual billing takes 10% off, so UNEX1 is then €16.20 a month.

A quota caps volume; a port caps rate. At full speed, NEX1's 10 Gbps port would use its whole 4 TB in about 53 minutes (4 TB × 8 ÷ 10 Gbps = 3,200 seconds). Spread over a 30-day month, the same 4 TB averages just 12.3 Mbps. NEX suits short bursts on a modest total; UNEX suits steady volume.

What a 1 Gbps port moves in a month

A port speed is a rate, so the monthly ceiling is rate × seconds. A 30-day month has 2,592,000: 1 Gbps × 2,592,000 s ÷ 8 = 324 TB at line rate.

Real transfers carry overhead. RFC 6349, the IETF's framework for TCP throughput testing, counts 1,538 bytes on the wire for every full-size Ethernet frame (1,500-byte MTU) and, assuming 40 bytes of IPv4 and TCP headers with no options, puts maximum TCP throughput on gigabit Ethernet at 949 Mbps. Linux enables TCP timestamps by default, and once both ends agree to use them, RFC 7323 puts that option at 12 bytes per segment with padding. That leaves 1,448 bytes of payload in every 1,538: about 941 Mbps, or roughly 305 TB a month, the same figure as our 1Gbps unmetered dedicated server guide.

Most websites average far less than the first row. How much bandwidth a server needs works through six workloads.

Break-even: when UNEX beats NEX of the same size

UNEX1 costs €18 a month and NEX1 €9; whether the extra €9 pays off depends on your volume. The store sells extra-traffic packs for NEX plans, one per server: 2 TB for €5, 10 TB for €15 or 100 TB for €100 a month.

Past each break-even, the next NEX step costs more than the unmetered plan: NEX1 with 10 TB extra is €24 a month, NEX2 with 10 TB €33, NEX3 with 100 TB €132 and NEX4 with 100 TB €164. UNEX stays flat up to the port's ~305 TB.

So UNEX1 pays for itself once traffic averages more than about 18.5 Mbps, and UNEX4 once it passes about 130 Mbps. Below those lines NEX is cheaper, and its 10 Gbps port gives bursts more room. The store does not say whether inbound traffic counts towards a NEX quota, or what happens if you pass it without a pack, so ask before running a quota plan near its limit. Unmetered bandwidth vs metered compares other providers' published rates.

Port upgrades and DDoS protection

Faster ports

Every UNEX plan can take a faster unmetered port:

The 2 Gbps step costs €50 for one extra gigabit; 4 Gbps works out at about €67 per extra gigabit. UNEX4 with 2 Gbps is €139 a month, more than the €129 entry dedicated server, whose 1 Gbps port the store labels "Unmetered (Guaranteed)". The VPS ports say only "Unmetered". Before paying for a faster VPS port, check that your vCPUs can fill it (see below).

DDoS protection

Every UNEX plan includes network DDoS protection rated at 20 Gbps / 1 Mpps, and 100 Gbps / 10 Mpps costs €150 a month more. It is Layer 3/4 protection against network floods. It does not stop an HTTP (Layer 7) flood of requests that look like real visitors; for a website, that is the job of a website DDoS protection proxy with a web challenge and WAF. With any host, ask what happens when an attack exceeds the protected tier.

Why the Netherlands region

The store offers UNEX plans in three regions: Romania, the Netherlands and Germany. All three are EU member states, so the GDPR applies in each. Choosing the Netherlands is a network and audience decision, not a compliance upgrade; EU data residency explains what residency does and does not buy.

The network argument is interconnection: the Netherlands is home to AMS-IX, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, which PeeringDB listed with 854 connected networks on 12 October 2026. But the store names only the region, not a city, facility or upstream, so do not assume a path; if the route to your users matters, run mtr from their networks to a test server first.

Pick the Netherlands region explicitly when you order; the configurator lists all three.

Good fits for an unmetered VPS

The pattern is steady outbound traffic, modest CPU and a small working set.

• Reverse proxies and CDN origin edges. Lots of transfer for little computation, though TLS still costs CPU.
• Download mirrors. The Ubuntu 24.04.5 server ISO is 4.08 GB, so 1,000 downloads is 4.08 TB, more than NEX1's whole monthly allowance.
• Partial package mirrors and caches. Debian's mirror-size page lists 873 GB for amd64 plus 317 GB of architecture-independent packages, and UNEX4's disk is 100 GB. Mirror one project or run a cache, not a full archive.
• Game patch distribution. A 10 GB patch to 1,000 players is 10 TB, roughly 24 hours of a full port at 941 Mbps.
• Small streaming relays. The 1 Gbps guide works out how many concurrent viewers fit on one gigabit.
• VPN endpoints for teams. Steady encrypted traffic, which raises the CPU question below.

Bad fits, and when to step up

• CPU-heavy work. Video transcoding, builds and large databases need cores before they need transfer.
• More than 100 GB of data. That is the largest UNEX disk.
• Sustained traffic above 1 Gbps. At €139 to €289 a month for UNEX4 with a faster port, you are already paying dedicated-server prices.

The step up is a Netherlands dedicated server in Amsterdam, from €129 a month: 2× Xeon E5-2630 v4 with 20 cores and 40 threads, 128 GB of RAM, a 240 GB SSD with room for up to six disks, a guaranteed 1 Gbps unmetered port, and 40 Gbps / 4 Mpps of DDoS protection included. With a 2 Gbps guaranteed port it is €179 a month. At either speed, that is €40 a month more than UNEX4 with the same port, for a whole machine instead of eight vCPUs.

Measure before you commit

A 1 vCPU plan has a 1 Gbps port, but one vCPU will not necessarily fill it. TLS, WireGuard, OpenVPN, compression and small packets all cost CPU per byte, and there is no honest single number for what one vCPU can push. Measure it:

1. On a machine near your users, run iperf3 -s.
2. On the VPS, run iperf3 -c <that host> -t 30 -P 4. The client sends by default, which measures the VPS uploading, as a download server does; add -R to test the other direction.
3. Then run your real service and watch CPU in top.

If iperf3 fills the port but your service stalls at 100% CPU, you need more vCPUs, not a faster port. Start on a one-month term, so the experiment costs one month.

Where to start

An unmetered VPS Netherlands plan from NexonHost starts at €18 a month for UNEX1: 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM, a 40 GB SSD, a 1 Gbps unmetered port and 20 Gbps / 1 Mpps of DDoS protection. Every plan, up to UNEX4 at €89 a month, is on the unmetered Linux VPS page. If your traffic sits below the break-even above, the metered Linux VPS range is cheaper, and virtual servers lists every VPS family.

Prices are as of 12 October 2026, excluding VAT. Check the product page for current figures.

Sources

• RFC 6349 — IETF framework for TCP throughput testing: §4.1.1, 1,538 bytes on the wire per full-size Ethernet frame (1,500-byte MTU), IPv4 with 40 bytes of TCP/IP headers; Table 4.1.2, 949.2 Mbps maximum TCP throughput on 1 Gbps. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• RFC 7323 — TCP extensions for high performance: §1.3, the Timestamps option adds 10 bytes (up to 12 with padding) to the TCP header. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• IP sysctl — Linux kernel documentation: tcp_timestamps default 1 (enabled). Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• iperf3 — ESnet's invocation reference: -s, -c, -t, -P, and -R to reverse the direction. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• AMS-IX — PeeringDB exchange record: 854 connected networks. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• Mirror Size — Debian: amd64 873 GB, architecture-independent ("all") 317 GB, updated daily. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• Ubuntu 24.04 release directory — Canonical: ubuntu-24.04.5-live-server-amd64.iso, 4,080,486,400 bytes (the listing rounds it to 3.8G, in GiB). Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• NexonHost store configurator, UNEX1–UNEX4 and NEX1–NEX4: plan prices, billing discounts, regions, Extra Port (2 Gbps +€50, 4 Gbps +€200), Extra Bandwidth packs (2 TB €5, 10 TB €15, 100 TB €100), DDoS options (20 Gbps / 1 Mpps included, 100 Gbps / 10 Mpps €150); entry dual-Xeon dedicated build in Amsterdam, its port options and included DDoS tier. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• Netherlands dedicated server — NexonHost: 2× Xeon E5-2630 v4, 20 cores / 40 threads, 128 GB, 240 GB SSD (up to 6 disks), from €129. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
• Computed: 1 Gbps × 2,592,000 s ÷ 8 = 324 TB; 1,448 ÷ 1,538 × 1,000 Mbps ≈ 941 Mbps, × 2,592,000 s ÷ 8 ≈ 305 TB; daily and monthly TB = Mbps × 86,400 s (or 2,592,000 s) ÷ 8 ÷ 1,000,000; 4 TB × 8 ÷ 10 Gbps = 3,200 s ≈ 53 minutes; average Mbps = TB × 8,000,000 ÷ 2,592,000; break-even = cheapest NEX plan + pack covering the volume against the UNEX price of the same size; 4 Gbps add-on €200 ÷ 3 extra Gbps ≈ €67; 4.08 GB × 1,000 = 4.08 TB; 10 TB × 8 ÷ 941 Mbps ≈ 85,000 s ≈ 24 hours; dedicated with 2 Gbps = €129 − €50 + €100 = €179.