[herbst]

No. This is absolutely common. I remember well how shared hosters 10 years ago already put caps on cheap packages and took the websites offline in case of traffic. And today it's Amazon who bills small players into dept.

There are many provider who don't tho.

[CalRobert]

I always loved nearlyfreespeech.com for this, (prepay, and if you run out of money the site goes down) but found it to be a pain for projects that really needed a VPS