[fabian2k]

Traffic is the big item that can add additional charges:

> Data transfer overages above the free allowance are charged at $0.09/GB.

On the $5 instance the second TB (at $90) is 18 times as expensive as the instance itself with the first TB included.

[kuschku]

Wow. That traffic is almost 50 times more expensive than at hosters of dedicated servers, or when you buy it directly from Tier 1 or Tier 2 networks.

Hetzner charges 1.36€ per Terabyte of traffic, and with most servers, gives you 10-20TB included.

I’ve heard people talk about the ridiculous traffic costs of AWS, but this is an entirely new dimension of expensive.

[fabian2k]

You get 30 TB traffic inclusive with the smallest Hetzner server that has ECC (4 core Xeon with 64GB RAM). And that is for ~70 EUR per month + setup fee.

That amount of traffic is more than 2000 EUR per month at AWS. Of course this is comparing entirely different things, but still, if you have significant traffic and can't avoid it with a CDN or something like that, AWS (as well as Google and Microsoft clouds) get seriously expensive.

[creullin]

I get that, but that's after the first TB. For a $5 VPS I'd expect most customers wouldn't go over that.

[Someone1234]

I'd agree. But it would be nice to have an option in the account settings so you literally cannot accidentally spend $90 on a $5 account.

[user5994461]

It's not expected... until your site get unexpectedly featured on HN, reddit or any news site.

[bendbro]

I'm pretty sure AWS only charges on traffic out.

Edit: just did some research, there are many cases this isn't true