I just used it as an example of some large service. The point is that I expect someone will take advantage.
It’s interesting to know that the limiting factor is bandwidth and not nginx/disk speed though. I’ll admit I don’t see 30Gbit of map tiles happening any time soon.
You are right in that I'd be afraid if this was hosted on AWS or on Cloudflare Workers. This whole idea is only possible because there are some hosts like Hetzner, which offer flat rate bandwidth.
It’s interesting to know that the limiting factor is bandwidth and not nginx/disk speed though. I’ll admit I don’t see 30Gbit of map tiles happening any time soon.