[ivanr]

Your comment doesn't match what's written on the very page you quote: https://upcloud.com/fair-transfer-policy

> Even if you exceed your monthly share, don’t worry, there are no excess fees. We will simply notify you of reaching the fair transfer policy and may reduce the bandwidth of your Cloud Servers to 100 Mbps for the rest of the month.

EDIT For completeness, there is also:

> If you believe to require more transfer per month than the Fair Transfer Policy provides, you may opt in to a paid transfer model at €0.01/GB. This affords you completely unlimited egress with no restrictions.

[arccy]

> Never pay for network transfer, even when your business takes off. Redirect savings towards accelerating your business growth.

If your network speed is capped, that's a bandwidth limit that can break things, especially "when your business takes off"

[belorn]

A soft capped network capacity is different from a hard spending cap. They have different risk models, benefits and drawbacks.

Personally I prefer a cap on spending given that the risk of runaway costs has a bigger impact than the risk of runaway of legit network traffic. I suspect most people feel that they are more cable of catching and addressing runaway success, rather than an runaway network problem caused by an undiscovered bug or attack (often intentionally done during off-hours in the middle of the night).

[ahofmann]

While this is technically true, it is almost every time false in this case. The network traffic scales with the CPU resources, you use on UpCloud. I know that, because I used their services.

But it would have been enough to just read the links, that are posted here. I encourage everyone to do the same, before posting stuff that is irrelevant and/or plain wrong.