Dedicated Servers for Video Streaming & Live Broadcast

Streaming is an outlier among web workloads. A busy video endpoint can saturate a 1 Gbps port with a single 4K HEVC stream sent to a few hundred concurrent viewers, and a mid-sized VOD platform will routinely push 5-10 Gbps during peak hours. That changes the shopping list. You need raw network capacity (10 Gbps unmetered is the baseline, not an upgrade), storage that handles sustained sequential reads (NVMe, not SATA SSD), and peering that puts you close to your audience (AMS-IX, DE-CIX, FICIX, and LINX) so last-mile latency stays low.

Compute matters too, but in a specific way: if you are transcoding on the fly, you want CPUs with AVX-512 support for x264/x265 efficiency, or GPU acceleration for h264/HEVC/AV1 via NVENC or VAAPI. If you are only serving pre-encoded ABR (HLS/DASH) packages, you need less CPU but far more network and disk throughput. AnubizHost's streaming tier supports both profiles — you pick the configuration that matches your architecture.

We also consider the offshore dimension. Streaming platforms are routinely targeted by DMCA takedowns, competitor complaints, and network-level interference. Hosting in DMCA-ignored jurisdictions with proper legal protection means your streams stay up during high-traffic events rather than disappearing mid-broadcast because some automated rights-enforcement bot filed a notice.

The streaming-optimized dedicated servers ship with a choice of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (16 cores, excellent single-thread performance for live transcoding), AMD EPYC 7313P (16 cores, ECC memory, great for concurrent transcodes), or Intel Xeon Silver 4314 (16 cores, AVX-512, perfect for x264/x265 quality-preset encoding). RAM starts at 64 GB and scales to 256 GB. Storage is NVMe-first: we default to 2x 1.92 TB NVMe in RAID 1 for the hot tier, with optional 4x or 8x expansion for VOD libraries.

Network is where streaming servers earn their price. Every streaming-tier machine includes a 10 Gbps unmetered port as standard — no overage fees, no burst penalties. Peering is the differentiator: our Amsterdam facility peers at AMS-IX with 400 Gbps aggregate capacity, our Frankfurt option at DE-CIX, and Helsinki at FICIX. This means your HLS segments reach European eyeball networks with single-digit millisecond last-mile latency.

For customers distributing globally, we offer multi-region deployments: place an origin in Amsterdam and mirror to Romania or Bulgaria for southern European audiences. We support anycast IP setups with BGP for customers who announce their own IP space, making it straightforward to build a cost-effective home-grown CDN on dedicated hardware instead of paying per-gigabyte to Cloudflare or Fastly.

Streaming plans are priced to reflect the 10 Gbps unmetered uplink that comes standard. The Streaming Starter at $129/mo includes an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, 64 GB DDR4, 2x 1.92 TB NVMe, and 10 Gbps unmetered — a reasonable single-origin setup for mid-sized VOD or small live platforms. The Streaming Performance tier at $159/mo upgrades to AMD EPYC 7313P, 128 GB RAM, and 4x 1.92 TB NVMe for multi-region origins and busy live events. The Streaming Pro tier at $199/mo adds EPYC 7443P, 256 GB RAM, 8x 3.84 TB NVMe, and dual 10 Gbps bonded for high-capacity libraries.

Add-on GPU acceleration (NVIDIA T4 or RTX A4000 for NVENC encoding) is available at $80-$150/mo depending on card. For customers running on-the-fly transcoding at scale, GPU-accelerated configurations typically pay for themselves inside the first quarter via reduced CPU pressure and better concurrent-stream density.

Streaming server provisioning runs 24 to 48 hours for standard builds. On request we can pre-install common streaming stacks: Nginx with the RTMP module, nginx-vod-module for on-the-fly HLS/DASH packaging, Wowza Streaming Engine (BYO license), SRS (Simple Realtime Server), or Jellyfin/Emby for VOD. If you run FFmpeg-based pipelines, we can pre-install FFmpeg with x264, x265, SVT-AV1, libfdk-aac, and hardware-accelerated codec support compiled in.

Post-delivery, you get IPMI remote console access for any OS-level issues, a reverse DNS control panel for clean player URLs, and self-service reinstall through our dashboard. For customers who prefer to run their own build pipeline, we provide a clean Debian 12 or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS image and stay out of the way.

Our engineering team has helped set up multi-tenant VOD platforms, live tournament streams, adult content platforms, and IPTV backends on this hardware, so if you need architecture input during the initial build, it is available at no extra charge.

Streaming platforms face a uniquely hostile operational environment. You are high-bandwidth (which makes you an expensive customer that most providers try to throttle quietly), frequently targeted by DMCA and rights-enforcement bots (which most providers eagerly forward), and deeply dependent on network quality (which most providers market but do not deliver). AnubizHost's streaming tier is designed to solve all three.

We run unmetered 10 Gbps ports without burst penalties or hidden thresholds — if you sustain 10 Gbps for 720 hours in a month, that is what you paid for. Our offshore jurisdictions (Iceland, Finland, Netherlands, Romania, Bulgaria) do not enforce US DMCA takedowns, so your service stays online through copyright bot attacks. And our peering is genuinely tier-1: we pay for quality transit from NTT, Cogent, Telia, and Lumen and augment it with private peering at the major European exchanges.

Payment options include Bitcoin, Monero, Litecoin, Ethereum, and major credit cards. For streaming customers distributing anonymously, we operate with no KYC and accept pseudonymous signups backed by crypto payment. Combined with our fast provisioning and real engineering support, AnubizHost is a practical streaming home for platforms that need performance, resilience, and privacy in equal measure.