If you’re okay with servers located in Germany, Hetzner is a provider I can vouch for and they offer additional egress at 1EUR/TB. 20TB included, too. (Billing has been rather painful, though.)
I have a dedicated server at Hetzner for 25 euro a month. I get an i7, 16 GB of RAM and 2x3 TB in RAID 1, which is nice since I'm hosting large media files.
I'm currently sitting at 4.2 TB of outbound traffic for the last 30 days, so I still have plenty of room to scale up my outbound traffic before I hit any limits. But most importantly my costs are fixed.
Quite. I did have some issue with my server becoming unreachable every couple of weeks at the start of the year for a couple of times. Not sure if it was a fault that I caused or if there was some kind of a networking issue. I know I tinkered with the server a bit earlier, but it seems to have resolved itself without me really doing anything, so it could really be either way.
One problem is also that apparently some Americans have really bad peering to my server. As an European, I can't really confirm if this is the case, but it's what I've heard.
They've generally changed to unlimited traffic for the standard 1gbps uplink (with 1gbps guaranteed bandwidth).
Not unlimited to 10gbps - but free up to 20tb:
> Traffic usage is unlimited and free of charge.
Please note that our unlimited traffic policy does not apply to servers that have the 10G uplink addon. In this special case, we will charge the usage over 20TB with € 1.00/TB. (The basis for calculation is for outgoing traffic only. Incoming and internal traffic is not calculated.) There is no bandwidth limitation.
Can also vouch for Hetzner. Used them at several companies and they've always been pleasant to deal with.
I've moved several people off AWS into Hetzner exactly because of their egress costs, in one case cutting their total hosting cost by 90% for that reason.
Even for people who stick with AWS and don't want to deal with any added complexity, even something as simple as putting a caching proxy in Hetzner and routing European customers to it can sometimes produce significant cost reductions.
Besides Hetzner, I can also highly recommend netcup.eu, especially for hobby projects. Their prices are even lower and include more data volume. Their interface is not as nice as Hetzner or Digitalocean, but I am fine with that.
https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php
Billing: If you have access to an European bank account they offer SEPA direct debit, which works like a charm.
Have you looked at Time4vps, I have been using one of their 1TB storage servers, and I pay quarterly what netcup seems to charge monthly.
It's openvz instead of kvm, but I use it to backup with rsync and borg. I also run a calibre library on mine and I've never had any issues.
Could not set up auto-charging, had to visit the billing portal once a month and manually initiate a Paypal or credit card transaction. Probably okay if you’re a company, not so convenient for an individual with a side project (at least I prefer set and forget).
That was two years ago though, maybe it has improved.
Hmm, weird, I believe I switched from credit card to PayPal at some point and there was no auto-charging prior to that either. Anyway, happy to be corrected.
