Sharktech Unmetered Server: 10Gbps Unmetered Bandwidth From $269/mo, Free DDoS Protection Included

If you've ever watched a monthly bandwidth bill balloon into something scary, you already know why the phrase "unmetered server" gets typed into search bars so often. You run a busy site, a game community, a streaming backend, a mirror service — and suddenly you're doing math at 2 a.m. trying to figure out whether that 95th-percentile spike is going to cost you a new laptop this month.

That's the exact corner of the hosting market Sharktech has been parking itself in for years. They're not the new shiny name in town; they're the older, slightly grumpy-looking shop that quietly keeps selling real bare-metal boxes with genuinely unmetered pipes and DDoS protection welded onto the network. Let me walk you through what they're offering right now, because some of the current promo pricing is honestly better than what I expected to find.

What "Unmetered" Actually Means Here

Before the deals, one quick reality check, because this trips people up. "Unmetered" is not the same as "infinite." Sharktech gives you a port speed — 1Gbps or 10Gbps — and you can push as much traffic through that port as the port physically allows, without getting billed per terabyte. So a 1Gbps unmetered plan means you can theoretically move somewhere around 330TB in a month if you saturate the port 24/7. A 10Gbps unmetered plan multiplies that ceiling by ten.

What you don't get is a guaranteed full-duplex wire-rate pipe at all hours under all conditions — no shared unmetered provider really delivers that. But for the vast majority of real-world workloads (game servers, media sites, download mirrors, VPN nodes, API backends), unmetered means you stop watching the counter. That's the peace of mind you're paying for.

Why People End Up at Sharktech Specifically

A few things that show up again and again when you read what users actually say about them:

• DDoS protection is included, not an upsell. Their in-house filtering is rated at 60Gbps+ and it's bundled into every dedicated server by default. A lot of providers treat DDoS mitigation as a $50/month line item. Sharktech welds it into the network.

• Bare-metal access. These are true bare-metal boxes, not virtualized "dedicated" instances. You get hardware-level control through their management panel — IPMI, reboots, OS reloads, the works.

• Five locations. Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and Amsterdam. That's a decent spread for North America plus a European foothold.

• 99.99% uptime SLA, 24/7/365 support, free IPv6 allocation, and /29 IPv4 (5 usable IPs) on the standard configs.

Now, the part you came for.

The 1Gbps Unmetered Options — Where Most People Should Start

Intel Xeon E3-1270v2, 16GB RAM, 1Gbps Unmetered — Los Angeles

This is the cheapest true unmetered dedicated box on their current promo sheet. You get eight threads at 3.5GHz, 16GB of RAM, a 2TB HDD (or 120GB SSD if you prefer), a full 1Gbps unmetered uplink, the standard /29 IPv4 plus free IPv6, DDoS protection, and their SECURE management platform.

Price: $99/month with coupon code LAunmetered.

👉 Grab the Los Angeles 1Gbps unmetered deal

This is the one I'd point a friend at if they were running a mid-traffic website, a small game server, or a VPN endpoint and just wanted to stop worrying about overages. Eight threads and 16GB RAM is genuinely enough for a lot of real work.

Dual Xeon E5-2670, 32GB RAM, 1Gbps Unmetered — Multi-Location

If you need more cores and more RAM but still don't need 10Gbps, this is the sweet spot. Dual E5-2670 gives you 32 threads at 2.6GHz, 32GB RAM, 2TB HDD (or 120GB SSD), 1Gbps unmetered, and the same DDoS-protected network. Pricing varies by datacenter:

• Amsterdam — $159/month (coupon E51Gams)

• Chicago — $169/month (coupon E51Gchi)

• Los Angeles — $189/month (coupon E51G)

• Denver — $189/month (coupon E51Gden)

👉 Check the Dual E5-2670 1Gbps unmetered configs

Notice Amsterdam is the cheapest — European bandwidth has been cheap for a long time, and Sharktech passes that through. If your users are in Europe or you just want the lowest dollar number on the invoice, Amsterdam is the move. Chicago is a solid middle ground for North American latency. LA and Denver run a bit more.

The 10Gbps Unmetered Tier — When 1Gbps Isn't Enough

This is where Sharktech's pricing gets genuinely interesting. 10Gbps unmetered dedicated servers, in the broader market, usually start somewhere north of $500/month and climb fast. Sharktech's entry point sits well below that.

Intel Xeon E3-1270v2, 16GB RAM, 10Gbps Unmetered

Same CPU/RAM footprint as the 1Gbps entry box above, but the network port jumps to 10Gbps unmetered with a 10Gbps public uplink. Regular price on this config ranges from $509/month in Chicago up to $789/month in Los Angeles. Current promotional pricing:

• Amsterdam — $269/month (lowest listed price)

• Denver — $499/month

• Chicago — $305.40/month with coupon 10GbpsCHI (40% off recurring, regular $509)

• Los Angeles — $631.20/month with coupon 10GbpsLA (20% off recurring, regular $789)

👉 See the 10Gbps unmetered dedicated server options

The Amsterdam $269/month figure is the headline number here. For a true 10Gbps unmetered bare-metal box with DDoS protection included, that's aggressive. If you're building a CDN edge, a high-traffic download mirror, a streaming backend, or a large game-server farm, this is the config that actually moves the needle on your bandwidth ceiling.

Dual Xeon E5-2670, 32GB RAM, 10Gbps Unmetered

When you need the 10Gbps pipe and more compute, this is the step up. Dual E5-2670 (32 threads), 32GB RAM, 2TB HDD or 120GB SSD, 10Gbps unmetered, all four locations available. Pricing:

• Amsterdam — $359/month

• Chicago — $589/month

• Denver — $619/month

• Los Angeles — $889/month

👉 Compare the Dual E5-2670 10Gbps unmetered plans

The delta between Amsterdam and Los Angeles on this one is huge — you're paying roughly two and a half times more for the LA box. Unless your audience is overwhelmingly West Coast US, the Amsterdam or Chicago options make a lot more sense on paper.

A Note on the Promo Codes

The coupon codes above (LAunmetered, E51G, E51Gchi, E51Gden, E51Gams, 10GbpsCHI, 10GbpsLA) are pulled from Sharktech's own promotional pricing page. Some of them are marked as recurring discounts, which matters — "recurring" means the price holds for the life of the service, not just the first month. That's a meaningful difference from the wave of "50% off your first month" coupons that flood the hosting coupon sites.

Promo availability is always subject to inventory and Sharktech can pull or modify offers, so if you're reading this and a code doesn't apply at checkout, that's the most likely reason. The bare-metal market has been supply-constrained for a while now; Sharktech explicitly notes on their site that they can't always guarantee 24-hour delivery on customized configs.

What's Genuinely Included vs. What Costs Extra

To set expectations honestly, here's what ships with every unmetered dedicated server above, no extra line items:

• 60Gbps+ DDoS protection on the network

• Bare-metal management panel (IPMI-level access, not just an OS login)

• /29 IPv4 block (5 usable addresses)

• Free IPv6 allocation

• 24/7/365 technical support

• 99.99% uptime guarantee

• Free setup on the promo configs

What you should expect to pay extra for, if you need it: additional IP space, hardware RAID upgrades, larger SSD/NVMe storage, GPU add-ons, and any custom hardware that isn't on the standard order form. Sharktech does take custom requests — their sales team will quote non-standard configs — but those aren't priced on the public sheet.

Who Each Tier Actually Fits

I'm going to be blunt about this, because "unmetered" gets thrown at every use case and that's not helpful.

The $99/month 1Gbps unmetered box is right for a single busy website, a small-to-mid game server, a VPN node, a monitoring/proxy box, or a staging environment that pushes real traffic. If you're currently on a VPS and getting throttled or hitting bandwidth caps, this is the natural next step.

The $159–$189/month Dual E5-2670 1Gbps unmetered tier fits multi-service boxes — several game servers on one machine, a moderately busy app backend with a database, a media-processing node that also serves traffic. The 32 threads matter when you're running more than one workload.

The $269/month 10Gbps unmetered tier is for bandwidth-heavy workloads: download mirrors, CDN edges, streaming backends, large game-server clusters, video transcoding pipelines that push output over the wire. If you've never actually saturated a 1Gbps port for sustained periods, you probably don't need this tier yet.

The $359/month Dual E5-2670 10Gbps unmetered tier is for the above plus real compute — the use case where you're both moving a lot of bits and doing real CPU work on them.

A Quick Word on the "Is It Too Good to Be True" Question

Whenever a provider lists 10Gbps unmetered dedicated servers under $300/month, the obvious question is: what's the catch? The honest answer, having read through their offering and the user feedback that's publicly out there, is that there isn't a hidden catch — there's just a set of reasonable expectations:

• The unmetered port is a shared uplink at the datacenter level, not a dedicated private wavelength. You get the port speed, you get to use it, but you're not buying a guaranteed wire-rate SLA on every packet at peak.

• The hardware on the promo configs is older-generation Xeon (E3-1270v2 is Ivy Bridge-era, E5-2670 is Sandy Bridge-era). That's not a problem for I/O-bound and bandwidth-bound workloads — which is exactly what unmetered servers are usually bought for — but it's not the box you want for CPU-intensive modern workloads.

• DDoS protection is real and included, but it's network-layer filtering tuned for volumetric attacks, not a full L7 application firewall. For most attack profiles people actually face, it's sufficient.

For the use cases unmetered servers are actually purchased for — pushing a lot of traffic without per-TB billing — Sharktech's current pricing is legitimately competitive, especially the Amsterdam 10Gbps box at $269/month.

Where to Start

If you want to poke around the configs and check current availability for a specific location, the entry point is the same for all of the above:

👉 Browse Sharktech unmetered dedicated server deals

My honest suggestion if you're undecided: start with the $99/month Los Angeles 1Gbps unmetered box if your workload is moderate, and only step up to the 10Gbps tier if you can actually name the reason you need a 10Gbps pipe. Bandwidth you're not using is just a more expensive line on the invoice. The unmetered game is about matching the port to your real traffic profile — and Sharktech gives you enough tiers across enough locations to actually do that matching instead of guessing.