[jug]

I agree and also delete my account.

The only "fix" here is to act like Hetzner and null route upon DDoS, price cap the thing, or offer unlimited bandwidth on the free tier like e.g. Cloudflare Pages.

Uncapped but paid is a recipe for disaster and you'll always be subject to the will of the support staff when something happens. If they can grasp to a straw leading to suspicions that it's not in fact a DDoS attack, you can for example be sure they'll do just that. Just no.

[zrn900]

Hetzner dedicated servers are (true) unmetered with 1 gbit connection. (can be upgraded).

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax/

With a 48 core Epyc or 80 core arm server, one really shouldnt need much more for a middling project. There are enterprises who run entire services on such hardware.

[livrem]

How does price caps work on Hetzner? I never managed to figure that out from reading their price lists. It looks to me like they charge for each TB, and the only thing I can see is that you can set an email alert to go off when close to some threshold?

[Hetzner_OL]

Traffic limits change depending on our products: See https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/traffic/ 1) dedicated servers: unlimited 2) cloud servers: changes based on package 3) colocation: changes based on product 4) managed servers: unlimited 5) managed vServers: 20 TB 6) Storage Boxes: unlimited We only calculate outgoing traffic. We do not count incoming and internal traffic. --Katie