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Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by hdjjhhvvhga on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:14AM (#30055124)
It is very good these things are getting publicized. More and more people realize these payment schemes for what they are: a scam. Every cloud provider that refuse to put a hard spending limit participates in this.

It is important to remember that not all cloud providers participate in it. For example, in Hetzner Cloud, they explicitly provide the maximum amount you are going to pay for a given instance or service in a given month. You are guaranteed not to pay more. Everybody knows why Amazon etc. refuses to do it this way.

Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by zekica on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:54AM (#30055437)
On Hetzner and with their €1.00 per TB after 20TB included, you can pay up to €324 per vps as you are limited to 1Gbps if you fully saturate the link all month.
Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by dx034 on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:13AM (#30055608)
I doubt you'll manage to get the exact 1Gbps per VPS out all month. On dedicated that's more likely. But luckily they have a very easy setting for billing alerts and maximum in the settings page.
Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by mawalu on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:40AM (#30055307)
Hetzner Cloud(!) only has 20TB/Month included in the monthly costs and states that you have to pay for any additional traffic. I never reached that on one of their cloud boxes so I don't know how it looks like but it definitely isn't all up front. But yes the dedicated machines come with no additional traffic charges whatsoever
Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by CodesInChaos on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:10AM (#30055581)
Additional traffic costs 1 EUR/TB (plus VAT, depending on where you live). So it's about 50 times cheaper than the big clouds.