What is the max allowed Fios data usage per month for a household?

[adamhurwitz]

Hi Verizon community, I'd love to learn where I can read more about Fios' personal home internet plans and the maximum data that can be used per month by a household.

I'm a hobbyist software developer and I'm looking to run a home server that may use up to 12.15 TB data per month. Fios' site says that there are "No data caps..." and I want to make sure that this is accurate.

Much appreciated!
Adam

[Cang_Household · Accepted solution]

There are no data caps for residential usage, but 0.0 B per month data cap for business usage. Exhibit C from the Fios Internet ToS. ToS explicitly prohibits hosting server of any kind.

ToS: Restrictions on Use

Verizon Legal clarified the ToS back in 2021 that "The intent [is] to prevent the use of the home internet connection to provide connectivity as a server being accessed by the general public."

And specifically, a "peer to peer sharing service ... [constitutes] commercial use."

I am not Verizon Legal, so my interpretation on this matter is limited in authority at best. I would say you could operate servers to serve your family members, and that is where the line has to be drawn.  If the intended audience is the general public, then it immediately violates the ToS and subjects your account to termination (no matter you served 10 TB of contents or 1 bit of contents, it makes no difference). For more information, please feel free to contact Verizon Legal via mail correspondence.

[smith6612]

As Cang_Household mentioned, there's no data caps as long as you're not disrupting the Fios network or doing anything against the ToS. Hosting a web server from home does fall into that area where Verizon could come after you citing the ToS.  Now with that said, if you're only hosting a web server in order to do ACME Challenges for Certbot to sign SSL Certificates to devices only accessible within your internal network, and nothing more... then you're probably fine. If you're hosting a small game server once in a while for your friends to enjoy, you're probably fine.

For something like a web server pushing Terabytes of data, I would honestly recommend standing up your projects onto some  web hosting. Many hosts  provide unmetered bandwidth, and you won't be exposing something on your home network to the Internet.