It is great that Linode had dropped the price of bandwidth dramatically as part of its plans, but overages are still billed at the old $100 per Terabyte rate ($0.10/GB). So a 2TB overage costs $200, and yet you can get that same amount of bandwidth, plus extra CPU, memory, and storage resources all for only $10 with the new Linode 1G plan. I learned that the hard way when my site was subject to a high bandwidth attack last month and I received a $1,098 bill for an 11TB overage. Yet that same amount of transfer only costs $60 if you buy 6 of the $10 Linodes. In fact, I could have just bought a bunch of Linodes near the end of the month and cancelled them on Sep 1 and I would have paid only $60 instead of $1098 for the 11TB of bandwidth. But I didn't notice the issue until I received the $1098 bill, and by then it was too late.

Anyway, my suggestion to Linode is that they consider dropping the bandwidth overage charges to a level consistent with their 95% reduction in plan bandwidth charges. Otherwise people will just buy a bunch of these $10 nodes for the 2TB of included bandwidth and never even turn them on. But it would be easier if Linode just reduced the bandwidth overage fee to that same $5/TB level. Cheers!

$1098 overage - ouch ! ! !

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Either provide enough details for people to help, or sit back and listen to the crickets chirp.
Security thru obscurity is a myth - and really really annoying.

There's supposed to be a difference in price between pre-committed bandwidth and on-the-fly bandwidth, to reflect the fact that if you pre-purchase bandwidth then Linode can better plan. But the difference definitely shouldn't be as extreme as it is now. The $0.10/GB pricing is antiquated, from back when the Linode pricing matched. As in, a $20 linode came with 200GB of bandwidth. The problem is that they multiplied Linode bandwidth by 10x but didn't reduce overage fees to match.