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When Do You Need 10Gbps?

Not every workload needs 10Gbps. But some can’t live without it. The key is knowing when the jump to 10G is worth it.

1. Continuous High-Bandwidth Streaming

If you’re delivering video or audio to tens of thousands of concurrent users, 10Gbps isn’t luxury — it’s necessity. It ensures your streams don’t buffer and your audience doesn’t drop off.

2. Large-Scale File Delivery

For workloads like software updates, game patches, or media file distribution, 10Gbps helps you push massive amounts of data quickly and reliably.

3. Transcoding and Encoding

Heavy processing tasks like video transcoding and live encoding consume bandwidth just as much as CPU/GPU power. Pairing compute with 10Gbps ensures bottlenecks don’t shift to the network layer.

4. When You Don’t Need It

Many enterprise applications, websites, or small-scale streaming services can run perfectly on 1Gbps or less. Buying 10Gbps for these cases adds cost without benefit.

5. The Gloman Approach

We don’t believe in overselling bandwidth. That’s why we offer instant 10Gbps servers for workloads that demand it, and more cost-effective options for those that don’t. Matching the right workload with the right infrastructure is part of our boutique approach.