On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:54:20 +0000 Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li allegedly wrote:
(Please don't cc me on mails to the list; I am subscribed.)
"reply-all" - My bad. Apologies.
A $5 DO VM comes with 1TB/month of traffic allowance. That's about 3.2Mb/s assuming continuous usage, which is about £1.60 at current global transit rates. I note they're also at LINX and various other peering points so there's a good chance their actual cost is lower than this.
My Tor node averages 25Mb/s. My tails mirror averages 11Mb/s (my whonix mirror used to do about 8 or 9). Even at your £0.50 per Mb/s estimate I'm getting a bargain.
(BTW. Where did you get those transit rate costs? Everything I can find suggests transit costs are subject to NDAs so there seem to be lots of "finger in the air" estimates and not a lot of trustworthy hard facts. Most commentators also note that transit costs vary hugely by geographic location. US costs are the lowest, Australia's the highest.)
Yes, your particular usage will potentially end up costing more than you pay but I'm assuming DO have calculated that there are few enough people who have been grandfathered in that it's worth doing (and I'm sure if it was causing them a problem they would terminate your contract).
I noted earlier that currently it is not just the grandfathered accounts which have uncapped bandwidth, but /all/ accounts. That may change of course, and you are probably right to assume that DO will kick me off if they find me completely uneconomic in future.
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