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I've never had luck with the unlimited / unmetered folks. Let's say you spin up 10 instances with OVH at the cheapest level (ie, $200/month). That is supposed

I've never had luck with the unlimited / unmetered folks. Let's say you spin up 10 instances with OVH at the cheapest level (ie, $200/month). That is supposed to give you dedicated 3Gbps in addition to compute / storage etc or around 1PB data per month + compute and storage. This compares favorably to google standard egress at $60,000/month. But as soon as you build a business model around this - poof - rate limiting -> some TOS violation claim pops up. "Oh, we meant unlimited or unmetered, but only if..." Seriously, with unlimited / unmetered at $20 these would make the great bases of things like CDN networks, image / static asset hosts for big properties etc. But it generally turns out to be total BS. In contrast - paying for bandwidth with AWS / Google etc -> no one has ever complained to me (though my current usage is minuscule in the distance past had high usage experience)

krn 7y ago
> But as soon as you build a business model around this - poof - rate limiting -> some TOS violation claim pops up. If bandwidth was at the core of my business model, I would certainly want to pay for it separately to avoid possible interruptions. In case of OVH, I assume, that's what "Bandwidth upgrade"[1] with a "limit of 20 Gbps per customer, and per datacentre" is designed for. It's not unreasonable to consider "spinning up to 10 cheapest cloud instances to avoid bandwidth limits" as a service abuse. [1] https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/bandwidth-upgrade.xml https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/bandwidth-upgrad...
tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
Hetzner specifically is not unlimited/unmetered: You get a ridiculous amount of traffic included, and then you pay per TB. The current price per TB is 1 EUR + VAT if applicable, so even if we assume you'll have to pay the German VAT, it's 1.35 USD/TB.
- krn 7y ago
  > Hetzner specifically is not unlimited/unmetered That's true for Hetzner Cloud, but Hetzner's dedicated servers have been unmetered (with a guarantee of 1 Gbps) since October 2018[1]. [1] https://www.hetzner.com/news/traffic-limit/ https://www.hetzner.com/news/traffic-limit/
- GordonS 7y ago
  Using the AWS figures above, it's over $20/TB, so Hetzner still compares very favourably.

krn 7y ago

> But as soon as you build a business model around this - poof - rate limiting -> some TOS violation claim pops up. If bandwidth was at the core of my business model, I would certainly want to pay for it separately to avoid possible interruptions. In case of OVH, I assume, that's what "Bandwidth upgrade"[1] with a "limit of 20 Gbps per customer, and per datacentre" is designed for. It's not unreasonable to consider "spinning up to 10 cheapest cloud instances to avoid bandwidth limits" as a service abuse. [1] https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/bandwidth-upgrade.xml https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/bandwidth-upgrad...

tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago

Hetzner specifically is not unlimited/unmetered: You get a ridiculous amount of traffic included, and then you pay per TB. The current price per TB is 1 EUR + VAT if applicable, so even if we assume you'll have to pay the German VAT, it's 1.35 USD/TB.

krn 7y ago
> Hetzner specifically is not unlimited/unmetered That's true for Hetzner Cloud, but Hetzner's dedicated servers have been unmetered (with a guarantee of 1 Gbps) since October 2018[1]. [1] https://www.hetzner.com/news/traffic-limit/ https://www.hetzner.com/news/traffic-limit/
GordonS 7y ago
Using the AWS figures above, it's over $20/TB, so Hetzner still compares very favourably.