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Was also disappointed after receiving this update today, price increases across the board and gone are the days of generous 20TB free traffic which we've been enjoying for over a decade. Our Hetzner VMs now limited to 1-3TB free traffic, feels like the end of an era.

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This is only for USA, isn't it?

It was expected considering during the last year everyone on Twitter was shouting left and right that everyone should use Hetzner because it is cheap.

Yeah it was cheap - only because the demand was low and they were competing on price.

Now it will only go up.

Its still a really good price though.

But, really? What are you doing, that your VMs need more than 1TB of data per month? That's a huge amount! That's 23MB per minute, continuously.

If you have a website with that kind of reach, the prices seem entirely reasonable.

I agree it is still reasonable.

But some examples of things that are profitable under the old regime, but maybe not at 20x the limit:

API services that consume media, whether to do some business logic specific thing or something specific, e.g. Transcriptions for videos, file conversion API, OCR API provider, etc.

If you try a video app without using WebRTC and peer traffic your bandwidth can blow up too. Even if you use something like push notifications with base64. There are lots of traps that use Bandwidth.

We have about 50TB for about 500.000 users per month. Our Hetzner costs are about 2k per month. Similar setup at aws would cost us about 10 to 20k per month. No joke.

You can get pretty cheap servers with massive storage (2x2TB for example) and use them as backup targets.

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