In November last year we reached a significant milestone when our outbound traffic exceeded the 1 petabyte (0r 1 000 terabytes and 1 000 000 gigabytes) threshold per month.
It is always our intention that our customers benefit from our economies of scale, and being such a large consumer of bandwidth allows us to keep our pricing favourable for our customers.
Hetzner passes on third-party discounts directly to our customers, and this large volume of traffic generated across our network allows us to purchase bandwidth at reduced rates. This is why we were able to drastically reduce our traffic tariffs for our customers last year – by up to 70%.
The outbound traffic i.e. traffic that exits our network to the internet, peaked at 1.1 petabytes in November. The total bandwidth usage across our Johannesburg and Cape Town networks was 1.7 petabytes. This represents an increase of 130% compared to November the previous year. While December is always a lower volume month, these increased traffic volumes are continuing this year.
Our traffic ratios have remained consistent to the 30/70 split between international and local (SA) traffic despite the increase in traffic volumes.
