but can't the ISP still see something is up if there is traffic 24/7

Nextgrid 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Amount of traffic is what matters. Are you saturating your pipe 24/7 for an entire month? Sure, you may have problems. But you'd have the same problems if you were torrenting (let's assume legal torrents here, I am not talking about copyright) or hosting a mega LAN party with hundreds of people streaming their games all at once.

Otherwise, no worries.

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Marsymars 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would use less bandwidth than wi-fi cameras that are uploading 24/7.

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srean 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't ISP's just charge per caps on ingress and egress volume?

From your comments it is clear that they don't. Super infuriating. Why should they care what I do with ingress and outgress that I paid for, as long as I am not hurting them.

	▲	Nextgrid 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		His comments are based on fear-mongering he read somewhere or an overly-literal interpretation of terms and conditions written to cover the ISP's ass in every theoretical situation possible. ISPs who enforce data caps already priced it in and technically have an incentive for you to exceed your cap as fast as possible so you pay to increase said cap (they can however still slow down your traffic as they wish, to ensure sufficient capacity for everyone). ISPs who don't enforce a cap actually still internally enforce a reasonable cap of several terabytes at their discretion. And of course, they can and will use traffic shaping to ensure the integrity of their network so your usage doesn't affect others. If you exceed that soft cap consistently several months in a row they may get in touch, but other than that you're fine. TLDR: host your server and enjoy. When you get to the scale of the next YouTube, then you have to worry.

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lelandbatey 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, though even though they can see that, as long as it's encrypted they can't know for sure, so as long as you don't cause problems they won't care at all that you're using it for something. In all my years I've never had an ISP complain about constant encrypted traffic, though some ISPs do have general data caps like Comcast.