Peace of mind. I always preferred flat fees for all services, even if I have to pay a bit more. When it comes to hosting I would of course expect a mechanism th

Peace of mind. I always preferred flat fees for all services, even if I have to pay a bit more. When it comes to hosting I would of course expect a mechanism that prevents abuse. For example, lowering the traffic speeds considerably after a reasonable cap. Ideally, though, all the figures involved should be spelled out. Moreover, lower speeds would not be acceptable for a professional site (see next). The funny (or worse) thing is that I don’t have any professional sites, and my personal sites are essentially text based. Hence, I never use more than 50MB of Linode’s 200GB! But still… I greatly value having the option of agreeing on a final price and absolutely ruling out any surprises at the end of the month. By the way, I miss the American meaning of “unlimited” or “flat fee”… There it means what it says, but here in Spain the “flat fees” of mobile operators in particular are so ridiculously abusive that you wonder how it’s legal to advertise them so prominently with two paragraphs of “fine print” afterwards.