Hosting provider FORNEX has rolled out a network upgrade affecting its VPS infrastructure in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany, raising the baseline port speed to 300 Mbps. The change applies across all plans and, notably, does not come with a price adjustment — a detail that tends to stand out in a market where upgrades often arrive with fine print attached.
What Actually Changed
The headline figure is simple: the standard port speed has been tripled compared to previous limits. From now on, 300 Mbps becomes the default for virtual servers in the selected locations.
For workloads that demand more bandwidth, users can extend the channel up to 1 Gbps. This upgrade is handled through additional traffic allocation rather than a full plan change, which keeps the process closer to a configuration tweak than a migration exercise.
Newly deployed VPS instances receive the updated speed immediately. Existing servers require a restart to activate the new parameters — a small ritual that effectively unlocks a faster network without touching the underlying setup.
Why These Locations Matter
The upgrade focuses on Sweden, Netherlands, and Germany — three well-established hubs in the European hosting landscape.
These regions are known for strong network interconnectivity, proximity to major internet exchanges, and consistently low latency across the continent. For projects targeting European audiences or relying on stable cross-border traffic, such locations are less about geography and more about predictable performance.
In practical terms, the upgrade is less about headline numbers and more about removing friction. Faster ports do not change the architecture of a service, but they tend to reduce the number of situations where users start blaming “the network” for everything else.