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joedicastro / vps-comparison

A comparison between some VPS providers. It uses Ansible to perform a series of automated benchmark tests over the VPS servers that you specify. It allows the reproducibility of those tests by anyone that wanted to compare these results to their own. All the tests results are available in order to provide independence and transparency.
https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison#automation
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Traffic overage costs #9

Open jspraul opened 7 years ago

jspraul commented 7 years ago

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 commented 7 years ago

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

punkeel commented 7 years ago

(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 commented 7 years ago

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 commented 7 years ago

@PunKeel I fixed that in 103aac18b0547c55ecf1a78c80fac6a57a24fba3 Thanks!