Unmetered, with a sensible ceiling.
We don't meter your bandwidth and we don't charge per gigabyte. What we do is publish honest fair use thresholds, so you know exactly where the line is and what happens if you cross it.
The numbers, in plain text
Measured per service, per calendar month, on the standard included uplink.
Per VPS, per calendar month, on the included 1 Gbps port.
Per server, per calendar month, on the included 1 Gbps uplink.
Bandwidth is set by the uplink listed on each colocation plan; fair use is applied symmetrically.
What "unmetered, fair use" actually means
Unmetered means there is no per-gigabyte counter ticking against you. You can burst to your full port speed, run sustained workloads, push backups, serve video, and we won't slice your bill into traffic line items.
Fair use means we publish a monthly soft ceiling so the network stays fast and predictable for everyone sharing the upstream capacity. The thresholds above are deliberately generous and cover the vast majority of real workloads we see.
If you exceed the threshold in a given month, nothing happens automatically. You will not see an instant overage charge, you will not be rate-limited silently, and your service will not be suspended.
What happens if you go over
One-off month above the threshold: we do nothing. Spikes happen. A product launch, a viral post, a one-time data migration, none of these will trigger any action from us.
Recurring overages, month after month: we'll get in touch. A real engineer or account manager will email you, share your traffic graphs, and have a conversation about what's driving the volume and what makes sense going forward.
In most cases the answer is simply moving you to a higher uplink, a custom plan, or a multi-server setup that fits the workload. If a usage-based add-on is appropriate, we agree on it together, in writing, before anything changes on your invoice.
We will never silently change your bill, throttle your port without warning, or suspend a paying customer for hitting fair use. That is not how Hostander operates.
What's not covered by fair use
Fair use exists to protect the network for legitimate workloads. The following are handled separately under our acceptable use policy and may result in immediate intervention regardless of traffic volume:
- Open proxies, anonymization exit nodes, or services designed to launder third-party traffic through your port.
- Outbound denial-of-service traffic, port scanning at scale, or any activity that triggers abuse complaints from upstream networks.
- Public file sharing, warez or piracy hubs, and other workloads whose primary purpose is to maximize bandwidth consumption.
- Sustained traffic patterns that destabilize shared upstream capacity, even if the absolute volume is below the published threshold.
Workload that doesn't fit the standard fair use?
Tell us what you're running. We'll size the right uplink, the right plan and the right commercial terms before you ever sign up.