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Ask HN: What are the downsides of “Unlimited/Unmetered bandwidth” VPS providers?

2 pointsby asidialiabout 4 years ago
I recently checked out DreamHost&#x27;s Dedicated VPS plan which comes with supposedly unlimited bandwidth.<p>I am unable to find any direct speed metrics on their site (as opposed to DigitalOcean, 1Gbps, but bandwidth adds up).<p>Any DreamHost Dedicated VPS users here that can chime in on their experience?<p>Any other &quot;Unlimited Bandwidth&quot; providers that you recommend?<p>What should I watch out for when picking the right unlimited bandwidth provider?

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corebufferabout 4 years ago
I like digging for cheap hosts for hobby projects and will try to help from that experience. I never used DreamHost specifically but tried a lot of the ones on MetaDedi[1]. There you will find best dollar-ram, dollar-cpu and unlimited bandwidth.<p>For bandwidth, I would be careful to read their Acceptable Use Policy and check if it is really unmetered or &quot;fair usage&quot;. For completely unmetered and free usage, look for seedboxes (things people host torrent on). Outside of this, I can recommend Hetzner from my experience. Other options are providers from the Tor wiki, used for exit nodes, and so on. Note that the network quality will vary a lot as you go to cheap free unmetered vs restrictive metered. Some of the restricitve metered will also sell plans with 100TB+ monthly, making them great for hosting too.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.metadedi.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.metadedi.net&#x2F;</a>