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Hetzner appears to impose unlisted “fair use” on traffic

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Re: Hetzner appears to impose unlisted “fair use” on traffic

#21
I don't get it. If you're paying for 1Gbps then why does it matter how much you use up to that amount? If they're overselling their capacity then they should just stop doing that. If they can only handle 80% of the sustained capacity, only sell up to that amount.

You pay for pipe capacity, you don't pay for usage according to sales page. If they want to change their business model they can. It's not my fault that I'm using what I bought to its full capacity

Re: Hetzner appears to impose unlisted “fair use” on traffic

#22
post #4

250TB/month is about 770 Mbps sustained. And you still only get a strongly worded letter!

Does not matter. Hetzner say Unlimited and Guaranteed traffic at 1Gbit/s with no fair use policy mentioned for that port speed.

Although I agree, when you look around, and especially when you look at AWS, Hetzner's offer is still excellent in terms of value for money.

Re: Hetzner appears to impose unlisted “fair use” on traffic

#24
I'd like to see how many people in this thread saying "but they promised UNLIMITED..." have ever actually worked in network engineering for a colo/hosting ISP.

This person is probably paying like 50 bucks a month or less and is in the top 1% of bandwidth users as measured by individual ethernet ports from a top of rack aggregation switch or similar.

Re: Hetzner appears to impose unlisted “fair use” on traffic

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AWS pricing is a rip-off.

... and their systems are designed to make controlling it difficult to impossible while locking people in to their ecosystem.

Free/cheap to get in, expensive to get out. Your data is held at ransom to some degree.

Re: Hetzner appears to impose unlisted “fair use” on traffic

#27

I'd like to see how many people in this thread saying "but they promised UNLIMITED..." have ever actually worked in network engineering for a colo/hosting ISP. This person is probably paying like 50 bucks a month or less and is in the top 1% of bandwidth users as measured by individual ethernet ports from a top of rack aggregation switch or similar.

> I'd like to see how many people in this thread saying "but they promised UNLIMITED..." have ever actually worked in network engineering for a colo/hosting ISP.

Raises hand

The fact that these kinds of lies are normal doesn't make them OK. Instead, just... don't lie.

Re: Hetzner appears to impose unlisted “fair use” on traffic

#29
post #21

I don't get it. If you're paying for 1Gbps then why does it matter how much you use up to that amount? If they're overselling their capacity then they should just stop doing that. If they can only handle 80% of the sustained capacity, only sell up to that amount. You pay for pipe capacity, you don't pay for usage according to sales page. If they want to change their business model they can. It's not my fault that I'm…

every isp ever since the dawn of the commercial internet oversells its capacity, you rely on 98% of the users not actually trying to max out their circuit at near line rate 24x7.

if they did not do this an ordinary residential last mile connection would be $250/mo not $50/mo.

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