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Bandwidth, unmetered, and what fair use actually means
How much traffic a game or web server really uses, what unlimited means in practice, and the two cases that genuinely need a conversation.
Most people worry about bandwidth and then use a tiny fraction of it. A twenty-player game server produces a steady trickle measured in low megabits; a small web application serves most of its traffic as cached assets. Neither is close to a limit that matters.
What actually uses traffic
- Serving large downloads - mod packs, video, installers - which is bandwidth in the way a game server is not.
- A backup job pushing copies off-site every hour.
- Being attacked, which is somebody else's traffic arriving at your address.
Fair use, said plainly
Unmetered means we do not bill per gigabyte, not that a single server may saturate a shared uplink indefinitely. If you plan to distribute large files at volume, say so and we will put you somewhere it does not affect anybody else. That is the whole policy.