Compare KVM and Dedicated Core plans with truly unlimited transfer. Learn which tier fits your production workload without surprise overage costs.
Most hosting conversations about bandwidth end badly: you pick a plan with a "generous" monthly transfer cap, your app gains traction, and you face overage bills or throttling. Production applications should never gamble with data limits.
RackWorks does not meter transfer on a growing set of plans. If your application distributes files, serves video, runs a content platform, or handles API traffic from mobile clients, unlimited bandwidth changes the economics. You stop checking graphs and invoices. You deploy.
The Real Cost of Measured Transfer
Cheap shared hosting often quotes 1TB or 5TB monthly limits. At scale, that math breaks fast. A video delivery system, a SaaS API backend, or even a well-trafficked blog can consume 500GB monthly in legitimate traffic. One traffic spike, one marketing campaign, or one viral post moves you into overage territory. Some hosts charge $0.10 per additional GB. A single month of 2TB over your cap costs an extra $100.
Unlimited transfer removes that anxiety. Your bill stays constant month to month, regardless of whether your application moves 100GB or 2TB. That certainty matters in production.
KVM Plans with Unlimited Transfer
RackWorks KVM virtual machines on three tiers include unlimited transfer as a standard feature.
KVM Growth at $20/month is the entry point for production workloads. You get 4 vCPU, 4GB RAM, and 80GB SSD storage, plus unlimited bandwidth. It fits small to mid-sized applications: a single-region web application, a REST API serving a mobile app, a database-backed content system, or a staging environment that needs real-world load capacity. At this price, the unlimited transfer benefit is substantial; a shared host with equivalent specs and a 5TB cap might look cheaper until your first overage month.
KVM Pro at $40/month scales to medium workloads. 6 vCPU, 8GB RAM, 160GB SSD, unlimited transfer. This tier typically serves multi-user SaaS applications, high-traffic content platforms, or applications that combine web and background processing. The extra vCPU matters for concurrency; the extra RAM lets you cache aggressively; the unlimited transfer means you are not watching your bandwidth like a hawk.
KVM Heavy at $80/month handles heavy production loads. 8 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD storage, unlimited transfer. This is for applications that demand headroom: microservice architectures, large-scale data processing, busy marketplace platforms, or any workload where CPU and memory contention would cause failures or latency spikes. At this tier, unlimited transfer is nearly a given, but the unlimited status still shields you from surprises as your platform evolves.
On all three KVM plans, billing discounts apply: quarterly billing saves 5%, semi-annual 10%, annual 15%.
Dedicated Core NVMe: When Noisy Neighbors Are the Real Cost
Unlimited transfer matters, but on KVM plans you still share physical CPU resources with other customers. In production, that shared environment can cost you more than any bandwidth overage: if a neighbor spikes CPU, your application slows. You have no recourse.
RackWorks Dedicated Core NVMe plans eliminate that risk. You get genuine dedicated CPU cores (not vCPU slices) and NVMe storage, not SSD. No noisy neighbors. No CPU steal. Your performance is not a hostage to someone else's code.
DC-1 at $25/month is 1 dedicated core, 2GB RAM, 40GB NVMe, unlimited transfer. It suits single-purpose applications or workloads that need predictable CPU behavior more than raw volume: a real-time monitoring agent, a lightweight API, or a database replica that must never stall.
DC-2 at $35/month pairs 2 dedicated cores with 4GB RAM and 80GB NVMe, unlimited transfer. This is a small business application server, a git server, a lightweight CI/CD runner, or a medium-traffic web application where you need guaranteed CPU performance and no resource contention.
DC-4 at $55/month delivers 4 dedicated cores, 8GB RAM, 160GB NVMe, unlimited transfer. It is a production web application with traffic, a database server for a busy application, or any workload where CPU predictability and latency consistency are non-negotiable.
All Dedicated Core plans include the same billing discounts: quarterly 5%, semi-annual 10%, annual 15%.
Choose by Workload, Not by Price Alone
If your application is stateless, scales horizontally, and traffic is bursty but not sustained, KVM Growth or KVM Pro gives you room to grow and unlimited bandwidth without the dedicated core cost. The shared vCPU model works when your peak load is predictable and you do not need single-digit latency tail performance.
If your application is a database, a message queue, a real-time service, or anything where CPU latency or contention causes visible customer impact, the Dedicated Core line is cheaper than the alternative: switching hosts because performance degraded unexpectedly. DC-2 or DC-4 eliminates that risk entirely.
In both cases, unlimited transfer means you scale your application first and worry about hosting costs second. That is production-ready economics.