[ProblemFactory]

> biggest price differences between them and smaller hosts such as Linode and DigitalOcean.

I suspect that the smaller hosts' plans traffic quota is sold below their own cost - assuming (correctly) that the vast majority of customers would not use anywhere close to the limit.

The traffic quota also scales much slower than the price as you move to bigger, more expensive plans.

I guess that it's fine if you reach the limit on a few servers, but if you rented 1000 x $5 droplets from Linode/DigitalOcean, and maxed out all of their traffic quota, you would get kicked out. Has someone tried to use these hosts just for cheap file servers?

[needcheapbw]

> if you rented 1000 x $5 droplets from Linode/DigitalOcean, and maxed out all of their traffic quota, you would get kicked out.

It might happen but it doesn't refute the parent's point:

"Right now Linode's and DO's smallest $5 plan offers 1TB of transfer, which would cost $85.00 on Google's new standard plan."

[blfr]

I don't know about DO Droplets but you can get a reasonably priced dedicated server* at OVH and knock yourself out piping 4-8 TB to the world for ~$40/mo.

* It's hard to push a lot of useful data with a tiny VPS.

[needcheapbw]

OVH isn't an American company, that probably matters to a lot of use cases.

[X-Istence]

OVH has a datacenter in Canada which is very well connected to North America, they are also working on their USA datacenter.

[needcheapbw]

A US location will be welcome. Might have to start using a real server for a change.