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by jjnoakes 654 days ago
> In general, I really love the idea of running all your stuff on a server you own as opposed to e.g. Heroku or AWS. Simple predictable monthly bill really gives you peace of mind.

Have you found hosting you like with bandwidth expense caps? I'm looking for something like this but I don't want surprise network bills if I misconfigure something.
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diggan 654 days ago
> Have you found hosting you like with bandwidth expense caps?

Not exactly what you're looking for, but solves the same problem in a different way:

I've been quite happy with using Hetzner's dedicated servers which come with 1 GBit unmetered connection (unlimited bandwidth), so no surprise network charges :)

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apitman 654 days ago
Note that if you saturate that 1Gbps link they will almost certainly ask you to stop. Lots of VPS offer "unlimited" but it's really not. It's only unlimited within their "fair use" restrictions, ie only as long as they think it's reasonable.

Would love to be shown a counterexample provider.

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1oooqooq 653 days ago
that's fine. if you're on that level either you're doing something wrong and should stop or you are making lots of money and should upgrade.

aws will just charge you regardless.

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_cenw 654 days ago
This happened once (?) in the history of LowEndTalk and Hetzner, and that was someone who was using several servers, 27/7, over several months at 100% link utilization to shovel raw footage around.

You are very unlikely to replicate this running any type of personal infrastructure. Or anything that's not specifically this.

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devjab 654 days ago
It’s not really unlimited as they will charge you $1/TB for what they call “overusage”.
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_cenw 654 days ago
That's cloud, non-standard NICs, load balancers or vSwitches. Their standard 1 Gbps link does not charge usage fees. The one person that reported it did it on several servers, over 3+ months - and they weren't charged, just asked to slow down or upgrade to a dedicated link.
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Aeolun 654 days ago
5-10x cheaper than AWS still.
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notpushkin 654 days ago
Yeah, I think plenty of VPS providers do unmetered traffic too. Mine has a limit but it's something like 8 TB/mo, so I'm not particularly worried either.
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thelittleone 654 days ago
Perhaps Hetzner or OVH?
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