VPS Documentation

Traffic Limits

Every VPS comes with a monthly traffic allowance. This page explains how traffic is measured, what the limits are, and what happens when you reach them.

Traffic Allowances by Location

Location Traffic Limit Excess Policy
Germany (de_epyc5, de_epyc, de_ryzen) 5 TB / month Throttled to reduced speed
Netherlands (nl_xeon, nl_ryzen) Unlimited (fair use) No hard cap

All quantities are stated in decimal units (1 TB = 1,000 GB).

What Counts as Traffic

Traffic is the total amount of data transferred to and from your server over the network. Both inbound (download to server) and outbound (upload from server) traffic count toward your monthly limit.

This includes:

  • Web traffic (HTTP/HTTPS)
  • File transfers (FTP, SCP, SFTP)
  • Email traffic (SMTP, IMAP)
  • DNS queries
  • Backup transfers
  • Any other network activity

Internal traffic between your server and the hypervisor (e.g. VNC console, API calls to the host) does not count.

Monitoring Your Usage

  1. Open your VPS in the dashboard
  2. The Traffic card on the overview shows your current month's usage
  3. If your plan has a traffic limit, a progress bar shows how much you have used

The card displays:

  • In — total inbound traffic this month
  • Out — total outbound traffic this month
  • Progress bar — used vs. total allowance (only shown for metered plans)
  • Throttled indicator — shown when your server has been speed-limited

Click the traffic card to see a detailed daily or hourly breakdown.

What Happens When You Exceed the Limit

On Germany-based servers, when you exceed your 5 TB monthly limit:

  1. Your server is not shut down — it continues to run normally
  2. Network speed is throttled (reduced) for the remainder of the billing period
  3. The dashboard shows a Throttled status on the traffic card
  4. Traffic usage resets at the start of the next billing month

On Netherlands-based servers, there is no hard traffic cap. A fair use policy applies — extremely unusual traffic patterns may be reviewed.

Tips for Managing Traffic

  • Use a CDN — offload static assets (images, CSS, JS) to a content delivery network to reduce server traffic
  • Enable compression — configure gzip or Brotli compression on your web server to reduce transfer sizes
  • Optimize media — serve images in modern formats (WebP, AVIF) and use responsive sizes
  • Monitor regularly — check the traffic card in your dashboard to catch unexpected spikes early
  • Review logs — check your web server access logs for bots or scrapers generating excessive requests