> Dude, I’ve used 180 TB of traffic in one month on a 16$/mo server, and still, no throttling. But legitimately using lots of bandwidth isn't the same as a DoS

> Dude, I’ve used 180 TB of traffic in one month on a 16$/mo server, and still, no throttling. But legitimately using lots of bandwidth isn't the same as a DoS attack. Try and remember that bandwidth isn't the only resource being used. > Scaleway In my experience they throttle your CPU usage after a while. > Hetzner requires you to buy traffic, but there it costs 1$ per 1TB of traffic, which is 1000x cheaper than Firebase. At no point did I suggest using Firebase was a good idea. I said it's always cheaper to run your own services in the long run, and that they'd have found out their own problems (see my first reply) sooner.