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Unless I'm making a mistake someplace, Digital Ocean includes 1TB egress to the internet from a $5-per-month host. On Google Cloud Platform that egress would cost $120/month by itself.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#Compute

https://cloud.google.com/compute/network-pricing

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What you find is if you spin up 1000 of these $5 hosts (ie, $5000 per month which is pretty) and try to egress 1PB per month you can't. Either they disconnect you, the systems can't actually handle it or some other gimmick.

One thing folks like about AWS - you can actually know what you will be paying and there is no fake / hidden limits.

That's my somewhat outdated experience wasting a TON of time on this idea ages ago.

But going back to the original number of $0.01/GB, that's what they state upfront as a bandwidth overage cost. I would be very surprised if they disliked customers paying the overage fee. And that's still only $10k per petabyte, vastly cheaper than AWS.

Give them a warning if you're going to spike your bill that high, but there shouldn't be any fake/hidden limits.

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