Reminds me of this situation: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/business-44885...

Private or commercial pilot ?

Commercial

You are delusional

Have you even read the investigation?

They increased their prices substantially

Nope. Lite plan receives only same-tier model updates.

I don't see it as selectable my side either (opencode & max plan)

They updated it now

No luck here. Did you do anything specific to make it show / reauth or something?

ah nvm - found the guidance on how to change it

People here don’t understand that Visa and Mastercard get only a small part of the fee. Most of it goes to the issuer and the acquiring banks.

I suspect they aren’t doing this (just) to avoid fees - it’s more about national security in a world where the US might stop being a reliable ally, and in a world where the US has used withdrawing Visa / Mastercard as a strategy to weaken enemy economies.

I think the recent stories of the International Criminal Court judge being forbidden to use VISA and Mastercard, making his life somewhat more challenging, did make some politicians aware of the risks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Guillou

Bandwith costs

It would be $0 if they spent 10 minutes just throwing Cloudflare CDN in front. They don't even need to move off Vercel.

We handle 200x their request load on two Hetzner servers.

A profitable customer? How would Hetzner know if you're profitable or not?

I've hosted side projects on Hetzner for years and have never experienced anything like that. Do you have any references of projects to which it happened?

Because you are using an incredibly large amount of bandwidth for €30 a month.

They offer unlimited bandwidth with their dedicated servers under a “fair usage” policy.

The bandwidth costs would be higher than what you pay monthly, so they would simply drop you.

You are probably using very little bandwidth, so it doesn’t matter in your case.

However, I assume Jmail consumes a very large amount of bandwidth.

I have heard of hetzner terminating customer relationships if too many legal complaints are filed against your VPSes.

But not because of being "not a profitable customer". Mind sharing some links here?

I am not sure how one even gets 250TB/mo through a 1Gbps link. In any case, completely saturating your networking for the full month is outside most people's definition of "fair use".

Yeah but they still advertise with unlimited traffic. "All root servers have a dedicated 1 GBit uplink by default and with it unlimited traffic" https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/traffic/

Germany does the same thing too . They can force you to unlock via faceid/biometric but can't force you to enter password.