Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs

Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by freefaler on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:56PM (#42268144)

- in EU there are large peering exchanges to swap traffic

- in USA no peering exchanges exists and you need to pay for your traffic most of the time. Few big operators in US and they enforce this.

Looks like some deal wasn't renewed and they lost a big chunk of cheap pipe or/and some of their upstream providers decided to do something with routing.

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Re:Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs by Slartie on Friday November 29, 2024 @04:11AM (#42272397)

Also, Hetzner is way bigger in the EU than in the US. Good access to services hosted by Hetzner is thus more relevant to EU ISPs, because customers in the EU will probably use more services hosted on Hetzner infra. This gives Hetzner more leverage in the EU to negotiate beneficial conditions with regard to its uplinks and peering agreements.

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