Unmetered VPS

Unmetered is not the same as unlimited: most offers come with a fair-use clause, and some lower the port speed after a set volume or when you saturate the port for days. Read the provider’s terms before you plan to push hundreds of terabytes, and check whether the port speed is guaranteed or shared with other customers on the same host.

Who needs it: video streaming, download mirrors, game servers with many players, VPNs and proxies for a team, and backups that move whole disks every night. For a website or an app that sends a few terabytes a month, a metered plan with a generous allowance is often cheaper. The full list shows the traffic included with every plan and the price of each terabyte over it, so you can compare both kinds.

How the bill handles it: an unmetered plan never carries an extra-traffic charge, whatever traffic you set in the settings above. A metered plan adds the price of every terabyte over its allowance, which is where cheap price tags often lose.