[GordonS]

> We also charge $0.01/GB of bandwidth

Can I ask why you are charging such a high price for bandwidth, or indeed why you are charging for it at all?

The only providers I know of that charge such ludicrously high prices for bandwidth are AWS, Azure and GCP - and it's frequently called out on HN as being a despised practice.

[yann_eu]

I’m really surprised that you call our bandwidth price “ludicrously high”. I might not have been clear in my previous comment, currently we’re providing 5TB/mo of free transfer and will always maintain a significant free tier for the bandwidth. We intend to maintain a forever free plan.

As far as I know, our bandwidth price is one of the lowest in the cloud/hosting market. We’re charging for bandwidth because our own providers do charge for it. We do not earn any money out of it, we’re simply covering our own hosting costs.

There is two models to charge bandwidth in the hosting/cloud market: with a limited bandwidth (e.g. 1Gb/s) and per GB. Most cloud providers are charging by GB, AWS, Azure and GCP are charging between $0.05 and $0.23, so between 5x and 23x more. DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode charge $0.01, so the same price. European providers like OVH and Scaleway cap the bandwidth. Do you have any example of providers with a significantly lower price?

[GordonS]

Gah, I'm really sorry, I think I've been silly and mis-read "0.01" as "0.10" :(

At the time I also hadn't seen about the 5TB included transfer.

Unfortunately I can no longer edit/delete my comment, but I hope this serves as a rebuttal.