Nine cents per gigabyte feels like cellphone-plan level ripoff rather than a normal amount for an internet service.

And people wonder why Cloudflare is so popular, when a random DDoS can decide to start inflicting costs like that on you.

I don’t mind the extortionate pricing if it’s upfront and straightforward. fck-nat does exist. What I do mind is the opt out behavior that causes people to receive these insane bills when their first, most obvious expectation is that traffic within a data center stays within that data center and doesn’t flow out to the edge of it and back in. That is my beef with the current setup.

But “security” people might say. Well, you can be secure and keep the behavior opt out, but you should be able to have an interface that is upfront and informs people of the implications