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I didn't know Hetzner Cloud, an first thought, "wow, it's even cheaper than OVH, which is already a bargain" (https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/vps/ https://www.ovhcl

I didn't know Hetzner Cloud, an first thought, "wow, it's even cheaper than OVH, which is already a bargain" (https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/vps/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/vps/). But then I realized you are limited in bandwithd to 20 TB, while OVH provides, for barely more €, unmetered traffic. It's huge because you never have to worry about a random spike day, a bot doing something stupid, an attack, or a use case switch (ex: video streaming).

q3k 6y ago
OVH might give you 'unmetered' traffic, but their connectivity _sucks_. Hetzner's 20TB/mo is equivalent to a constant measly ~60Mbps, but at least you'll reliably get this rate to most of the Internet, and very often will be able to saturate your link speed for peak usage. There have been times where I wasn't able to get more than a handful Mbps from an OVH box in RBX to any network I've tried (multiple eyeball networks, Google Cloud, AS204880...). I also know multiple people who had to quickly migrate out of OVH because they suddenly got DSL-tier performance to their critical customers, and there was nothing they could do about it. So it might be theoretically unmetered, but technically... I'd be surprised if you'd be reliably able to push more than 20TB in a month to outside OVH's AS, or even datacenter. You get what you pay for, and while network connectivity is not nearly as expensive as what large cloud providers would like you to believe, it's not free. A true unmetered, non-oversubscribed, globally reaching Gbps link would run you something close to $200/mo in T1 transit commitment costs alone, and that's if you buy in bulk and already have good settlement-free peering with large networks to supplement that T1 transit.
gruez 6y ago
>But then I realized you are limited in bandwithd to 20 TB How are you using 20TB/month? Are you running a tor relay or something?
- rollcat 6y ago
  Video.
- BiteCode_dev 6y ago
  Streaming, webrtc, chat, file storage and upload, torrenting, file conversion, proxying, web crawling, backups, sync... There is more to the web than crud.
  - IA21 6y ago
    > There is more to the web than crud. not really. 90% of people using the cheapest vps are going to host wordpress or crud apps on there, not their video streaming startup that competes with youtube.
    - anoncake 5y ago
      10% is significantly higher than 0.
nielsole 6y ago
20TB is not the limit but what is included in the VPS costs. Afterwards it's 1€ (plus VAT) / TB

q3k 6y ago

OVH might give you 'unmetered' traffic, but their connectivity _sucks_. Hetzner's 20TB/mo is equivalent to a constant measly ~60Mbps, but at least you'll reliably get this rate to most of the Internet, and very often will be able to saturate your link speed for peak usage. There have been times where I wasn't able to get more than a handful Mbps from an OVH box in RBX to any network I've tried (multiple eyeball networks, Google Cloud, AS204880...). I also know multiple people who had to quickly migrate out of OVH because they suddenly got DSL-tier performance to their critical customers, and there was nothing they could do about it. So it might be theoretically unmetered, but technically... I'd be surprised if you'd be reliably able to push more than 20TB in a month to outside OVH's AS, or even datacenter. You get what you pay for, and while network connectivity is not nearly as expensive as what large cloud providers would like you to believe, it's not free. A true unmetered, non-oversubscribed, globally reaching Gbps link would run you something close to $200/mo in T1 transit commitment costs alone, and that's if you buy in bulk and already have good settlement-free peering with large networks to supplement that T1 transit.

gruez 6y ago

>But then I realized you are limited in bandwithd to 20 TB How are you using 20TB/month? Are you running a tor relay or something?

rollcat 6y ago
Video.
BiteCode_dev 6y ago
Streaming, webrtc, chat, file storage and upload, torrenting, file conversion, proxying, web crawling, backups, sync... There is more to the web than crud.
- IA21 6y ago
  > There is more to the web than crud. not really. 90% of people using the cheapest vps are going to host wordpress or crud apps on there, not their video streaming startup that competes with youtube.
  - anoncake 5y ago
    10% is significantly higher than 0.

nielsole 6y ago

20TB is not the limit but what is included in the VPS costs. Afterwards it's 1€ (plus VAT) / TB