When the channel width is taken into account in total and incoming and outgoing traffic?

Question

Network administration

Good afternoon.
I rented a virtual server (VDS) with a declared channel of 100Mbps.
Set it up for a personal VPN. The home computer is connected to the VPN all the time.
When using a torrent through a VPN, there is a correspondingly high network load.
The hoster blocked my server, referring to the fact that I use 60Mpbs for incoming traffic and 60Mbps for outgoing, which is 120Mbps (and this is more than 100Mbps).
Question: Are incoming and outgoing traffic counted separately?
And why, then, at a home provider, the tariff of 50Mbps implies both 50Mbps download and 50Mbps upload. Not in total.
When renting a server, the calculation is carried out in the amount? Or is the host misleading me?

Answer 1

Depends on the conditions of the SPECIFIC tariff.
It happens that the tariff is not symmetrical.
For example, when hosting in datacenters, there is a note in the conditions that "only outgoing traffic from the server is considered, but the ratio of incoming traffic to outgoing traffic must be at least 1 to 10".
Providers to residential buildings sometimes have directly opposite tariffs, when, on the contrary, return traffic is not welcome.
There are tariffs where only one direction of traffic is considered, incoming or outgoing.
There are tariffs where it considers both directions of traffic.
It is not clear why you are asking this question on a forum that has no idea what kind of company you are providing services to you and on what terms, and not just carefully reading the contract and / or not having a conversation, trying to negotiate, with the same company.

Answer 2

As a Hoster, you have the right to consider it as you like, it is clear that such torrent clients are just expenses for the Hoster, and who needs purely unprofitable clients, but no one

Answer 3

The vast majority of Russian hosters offer the so-called "100 Mbps anlim", while Western ones, for example, often, on the contrary, offer 1 Gb / s (of course, shared) with several TB of traffic per month. The bottom line is, and any sane person should understand this himself, the local "unlim" is actually not anlim at all, that is, these are not 24x7 100 Mbps allocated to you personally, and it cannot be otherwise, otherwise the price would surprise you. It’s just that this moment, unfortunately, is often not advertised (although many hosters have this in the rules) and far from the topic of hosting, naive people often take it on faith, like you, drawing an analogy with a home provider, for example.
By the way, are you sure that you were blocked with exactly this wording? It's just that many hosters directly prohibit the use of torrents, sometimes even legal ones (although I think you used them for illegal ones).
As for your question - it depends on the host. Some incoming traffic is not taken into account at all, although this is usually typical for hosters with limited traffic, Western ones. On local up to 100 Mbps (up to, maybe 100 there, even in Europe, most of the time it doesn’t reach much) under-anlims, as a rule, they don’t do this. That is, if your words are true, the hoster's justification for your blocking sounds a bit feigned and wild, in my opinion they could have voiced the reason for you more directly and sanely. However, this still does not change the fact that you were blocked on a case, next time don't be so naive!
By the way, I see in your previous question you were already advised to let torrents by VPN, which you, unfortunately, did not listen to. Otherwise, you simply wouldn't have such a question.