Wow. You literally cannot pay them 10 times the price to give you that much bandwidth now. If you were using 20TB they just don't want you as a customer anymore
Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
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Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#102They recently changed to bill by the hour. Not hard to destroy and reprovision once you're near the traffic limit.
Massive loophole.
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#103Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#104When has AWS done something like this? LB11 going from 20TB to 1TB for the same price is wild if you’d built a business on this platform.
Never. I don't think AWS have _ever_ icnreased prices.
Right - I’ve been on them since EC2 flat network / simple DB days and was trying to remember if I ever got an email like this.
I know google has jacked rates (maps etc) and killed services (I used their first paas before it was basically abandoned)
I have argued online with folks about their pricing - my point usually being as soon as you try to do Netflix or YouTube on the “Free” or unlimited or ultra low cost providers - you find out it’s a lie.
My impression was hetzner had started null routing customers for “abuse” who used a lot. No idea if that’s true, but used to be the way the “unlimited” VPS providers did it.
Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#105Ahh, yes, the good old "here, you purchased X amount of things for $Z. But don't dare to use everything you paid for, or we double the price"
Hetzner have definitely always been scumbags about the bait & switch on aspects of their service like that. Granted it's pretty typical of the too good to be true rule of life.
Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#106As a Hetzner client, any price rise is disappointing. We are compute-heavy, not egress-heavy, user so will be largely unaffected by these changes, but I'm still a yuge Hetzner fan.
Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#107This is pretty steep... their website still seems to list the old included traffic and price (though okay, I guess they still have 3 days to update). Is there a more official link, or was it distributed through email?
Haven't been able to find a link. Seems like it was only distributed by email — which isn't great communication IMO
Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#108> for other customers who have used much more resources
So, "Pi mal Daumen"* this means that US customers have a bandwidth consumption which almost an order of magnitude higher than that of European and Singaporean customers?
I wonder what it consists of.
* π x thumb = ballpark figure
Re: Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
#109Inflation, the real inflation is 10%
Inflation doesn't explain reducing the included traffic from 20TB to 1TB while simultaneously increasing prices. This is a much more dramatic change than what inflation would justify.
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#110I thought of giving a recommendation here but I fear that they would raise the prices too... :|
That's exactly how these things spread - as soon as one provider gets called out for good value, they seem to "adjust" their pricing.