100 Mbps Unmetered Bandwidth: What Does It Actually Mean?

Speed vs. data

Bandwidth has two separate numbers that plans mix up on purpose. Speed is how fast a connection can move data at any instant — measured in megabits per second (Mbps). Data is the total amount you transfer over a month — measured in gigabytes (GB). A 100 Mbps cap means no single transfer goes faster than 100 megabits per second. Unmetered means there is no monthly data limit at all.

A quick unit check: 100 Mbps is 12.5 megabytes per second (divide by 8). That's fast enough to stream several HD videos at once, so a single small website will rarely come close to the cap.

What the cap feels like in practice

For a typical personal site or API, 100 Mbps is not the bottleneck — the server's CPU and RAM are. A container running a small web server will saturate its 256–512 MB of memory long before it saturates the link. The cap mainly matters when you're moving large files around, and even then it's generous.

The useful guarantee is the unmetered part: no surprise overage bill at the end of the month, no throttling after a data threshold. You pay a flat $1–$2.99 and the data is yours.

• 100 Mbps = up to 12.5 MB per second per transfer
• Unmetered = no monthly data limit, no overage fees
• Fine for websites, APIs, dev boxes, and learning
• The cap protects every container from a noisy neighbor