Traffic overage costs

[jspraul]

Please consider documenting cost of traffic overages for each provider.

Also worth noting differences in cost between inbound/outbound traffic (Linode inbound is free, for example).

[joedicastro]

Thanks! I'll look into that! I'll try to put all the information that I find about it.

[punkeel]

(Hello there, I don't think this is worth creating a new issue so I'll post it here)

I have serious doubts about the OVH’s and Scaleway’s unlimited traffic, seems more marketing strategy than real to me (joe di castro).

Traffic is really unmetered, french hosting providers never billed for traffic (to my knowledge at least). You're limited by your bandwidth, but not charged for it / throttled after some consumption level.

Disclaimer: none, I don't work for an hosting provider, I'm just an happy customer

[joedicastro]

Thanks @punkeel I'll change that because you are probably the third person to tell me the same (the others in HN), and even gave me a reasonable explanation why probably they do that. I quote that explanation by RX14 here:

Scaleway are owned by one of the largest ISPs in France. Bandwidth is typically brought symmetric, but home traffic is nearly entirely download. It's my assumption that they use their server business to offset their bandwidth costs for their underutilized outbound links.

[joedicastro]

@punkeel I fixed that in 103aac1
Thanks!