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Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by yurishimo on Thursday November 28, 2024 @09:40AM (#42265577)
Until you remember that marketing is a separate department from finance which is a separate department from ops/engineering.

The engineers said 20TB in aggregate was fine but likely didn’t consider the “bad apples”. Marketing obviously wants to use the biggest numbers and then finance comes in with the hammer and dev points to egress as an simple way to upset rhe fewest number of real customers.

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Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by hyperpape on Thursday November 28, 2024 @10:04AM (#42265735)
As an engineer, if you don't qualify whether your answer is average or max, you've messed up.
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Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by drpossum on Thursday November 28, 2024 @10:27AM (#42265891)
I'm confident the marketing folks would just say something akin to "shut up nerd", cash their bonuses, and leave you with the problem.
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Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by cluckindan on Thursday November 28, 2024 @10:36AM (#42265971)
As an engineer, NEVER give out averages without checking that they are consistent with the distribution of the actual data.
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Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by phil21 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:17PM (#42266953)
Averages tend to skew once exposed to adverse selection.
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Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by Moru on Friday November 29, 2024 @04:09AM (#42272378)
Don't think you find much engineers in the marketing department though.
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Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by bmicraft on Thursday November 28, 2024 @05:31PM (#42269007)
It does make sense: The average was low enough that a 20TB cap worked. Then marketing started boasting about the 20TB limit and attracted a bunch of high-bandwith customers, thereby driving up the average making 20TB decidedly "not fine".
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