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Mini-guide: reading between lines of 'unlimited'

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uma

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99.99% or bust

7 #1

Reading between lines of 'unlimited' I scraped fair use clauses from 8 hosts and cross-referenced actual suspension events from public complaints, status page anomalies, and one leaked support ticket.

  • Contabo "unlimited bandwidth" — soft cap 2TB, hard cap 4TB. No warning email. : 23 suspensions at 3.7TB average.
  • OVHcloud "unlimited domains" — CPU throttled to 10% after 5 addon domains. "Unlimited" refers to DNS records, not hosting.
  • Vultr "unlimited storage" — inode limit 250,000. 50,000 files = "unlimited" if each is 5GB. Suspension at inode cap, not byte cap.
  • Hetzner "unlimited email" — 500 emails/hour limit. Marketing "unlimited mailboxes," not sends.
  • Hostinger "unlimited databases" — 1GB max per MySQL instance. Unlimited count of unusable databases.
  • KnownHost "unlimited everything" — I think their ToS has something about termination for resource abuse with no numeric threshold. Widest discretion.
  • CloudCone "unlimited SSL" — Let's Encrypt only. Custom certs $15/install. "Unlimited" means auto-renewal count.
  • Time4VPS "unlimited support" — 48-hour response SLA for "unlimited" tickets. Unlimited waiting.
I will update if hosts change terms. Bookmark this.

436 days. reboot is surrender.
marcus_qc

Member

#2

Hey folks this is super stoked work gonna pin this in our discord if thats cool @uma we had the same inode headache at Vultr last year migrated out in 48hrs gonna share your numbers with the crew

42U and still growing
LO

Member

2 #3

Soft caps are the real unlimited

Doug

Member

New Jersey

#4

Three hosts editing TOS in 3... 2... 1...

grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
LichunLars

Member

#5 
Host          | Route to status page | Avg ping | Suspension trigger visible?
Contabo     | via Cogent, HE       | 34ms     | NO
OVHcloud     | direct, no IX        | 12ms     | NO
Vultr      | via Tata, GTT        | 89ms     | NO (inode hidden in API)
Hetzner    | anycast, 8 PoPs      | 22ms     | YES (500/hr in headers)

Route via Hetzner's anycast adds 12ms vs their "premium" tier. Same ASN. The graphs don't lie but their headers do — https://status.hetzner.com.

1ms or I don't want it
prague1983

Member

btw I use Arch

#6

Leaked support ticket or a screenshot? Never trust one source

oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

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