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This is why I prefer Hubic. It's limited to 10 TB and capped at 10 Mbit, but at least you can be sure these are the limits you can reach without any fear of being banned and losing everything -- unlike on all those "unlimited" services.
You can be sure that OVH will never change their mind?
About what? This is the service they provide currently at this price. If they change their mind, this will be announced publicly in one form or the other, e.g. by raising the renewal price or reducing the user-visible storage/bandwidth limits. You can never be sure they will not change anything, but what's imporant is here it's all in the clear, not by a sysadmin in a back room of Amazon deciding which account to ban today.
@rm_ was the 10Mbps speed limit announced initially, or was it just derived by user's experiments? What is they decide to change it to 1Mbps? Not like Oles hasn't been inconsistent in his decisions before...
It was listed from day 1 in the TOS, but was not actually enforced until a year or so later.
It's "fair-usage" guys. Don't panic. They ban only if they think it's fair.
that is the bloody well discussion here... if they decide the fair usage, you never know when you tripped the line.
Instead of unlimited everything bullshit... they should lay of packages with simple TOS so the people know their limits.
We are in some kind of dilemma here.
I sure agree with you in the point about the TOS but at the same time I think people should know themselves that storing massive amounts of TBs on those services and downloading them on a daily basis could by no means be the intended way of usage...
It's the default point we are always getting to in the end: Some ruin it for everyone.
Agreed 100%
Did you try turning your sarcasm radar off and on again?
I pointed out how this "fair-usage" bullshit gets rape in Amazon thread but is OK when happens in the discussions of LES providers. I should have add "Don't be a dick and Amazon won't ban you. You pay pennies and consume tons of traffic" etc.
The tragedy of the commons. 1968. Classic.
Well no...I wasn't being sarcastic. Though I condemn the very nature of action Amazon, I do 100% agree how people abuse a "fair use" service and force providers to hard-line policies that affect the other 70-80% fair usage consumers.
Don't try going for sarcasm in a language you are not native in, to people who are not native in it either.
"Do as I say not as I do".