A lot less bandwidth and higher prices with less than a week until it goes live. That's insane.
Less than a week for newly created resources. At least they’re allowing until February for existing resources.
Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
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Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#22So it seems that trying to compete with duopoly isn't working.
Can we assume it is cause there is only few big corporations dominating internet infrastructure in US compared to EU with tons of medium sized and even small business that do it?
I would love some good read about US infrastructure, especially why costs are so high compared to EU?
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#24Are tariffs already in place or is this just a thinly-veiled scapegoat for haircutting traffic allocation by 95%? To a customer, it certainly feels like a bait and switch to sell a subscription product and once customers are embedded materially change the economic trade.
By tariff they just mean contract pricing, not the tax kind.
Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#25So it seems that trying to compete with duopoly isn't working.
Can we assume it is cause there is only few big corporations dominating internet infrastructure in US compared to EU with tons of medium sized and even small business that do it?
I would love some good read about US infrastructure, especially why costs are so high compared to EU?
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#26Am I calculating right that 20TB per month means around ~60Mbits per second for 24/7? Not a network expert, but it is hard to see how this could be sustainable for less than €5/month. Sounds a bit like the usual case where company is able to give a generous offering because most customers utilize just a small portion of it. Maybe with the attention they have been getting, they have attracted more bandwidth hungry cus…
They already offer it on their European servers and it's still unchanged. Also, just because it's included doesn't mean everyone is using it to their full capacity.
Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#27Are tariffs already in place or is this just a thinly-veiled scapegoat for haircutting traffic allocation by 95%? To a customer, it certainly feels like a bait and switch to sell a subscription product and once customers are embedded materially change the economic trade.
It's the language barrier. The German word Tarif doesn't mean the same as the English word tariff.
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#28I think this is fair. All their competitors have crazy pricing for bandwidth, so why should be they be generous ?
That's, non ironically, the answer
Pulling the price too low in comparison, let's say with AWS, will just make your life harder but will not squeeze them in any way
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#29Bit annoying that the word tariff differs between the continents. Was thinking it related to possible trade tariffs
I wonder why English decided to narrow its meaning. Well I guess a language doesn’t decide anything, but I think you know what I mean. In many EU countries it simply means “cost list” or “price list” which can be for import duties but also for a range of other things.
It’s very nice to have it called tariff in basically every EU country though. We get green energy tariffs and if it was called something different in each country they wouldn’t be fun.
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#30Is traffic generally much more expensive in the US than in Germany? This seems to be a US-only change and I'm wondering a bit about the reasoning here and whether to expect this to also change in other regions.