Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for April 2015.
App Engine + Amazon + Azure = total by month February 2014 $0.09 + -- + -- = $0.09 March 2014 $0.00 + -- + -- = $0.00 April 2014 $0.73 + -- + -- = $0.73 May 2014 $0.69 + -- + -- = $0.69 June 2014 $0.65 + -- + -- = $0.65 July 2014 $0.56 + $0.00 + -- = $0.56 August 2014 $1.56 + $3.10 + -- = $4.66 September 2014 $4.02 + $4.59 + $0.00 = $8.61 October 2014 $40.85 + $130.29 + $0.00 = $171.14 November 2014 $224.67 + $362.60 + $0.00 = $587.27 December 2014 $326.81 + $417.31 + $0.00 = $744.12 January 2015 $464.37 + $669.02 + $0.00 = $1133.39 February 2015 $650.53 + $604.83 + $0.00 = $1255.36 March 2015 $690.29 + $815.68 + $0.00 = $1505.97 April 2015 $886.43 + $785.37 + $0.00 = $1671.80 -- total by CDN $3292.25 + $3792.79 + $0.00 = $7085.04 grand total
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=usersta...
The number of simultaneous users increased hugely in April, from 2000 to around 5000. There are big increases around April 9 and April 15, which I conjecture were caused by a performance improvement in meek-azure and its coverage in TWN. meek-azure used to be hugely bottlenecked, but now it should handle as many users as the others. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008637.html https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-weekly-news-%E2%80%94-april-15th-2015
We moved over 10 TB in April.
Because of meek's extra layer of indirection, it doesn't correctly compute per-country user statistics (the server sees the IP address of the CDN, not of the actual user). Now that a nontrivial fraction of bridge users use meek, a nontrivial fraction of bridge users are being miscounted. Keep that in mind when you look at the per-country bridge user graphs--if users are connecting through meek, they don't count towards that country's total. Here is a ticket that aims to fix the issue by passing the client IP through the CDN. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13171
If you want to help reduce costs, you can 1. Use meek-azure; it's still covered through a grant for the next four months. 2. Set up your own App Engine or CDN account. Then you can pay for your own usage (it might even be free depending on how much you use). Here are instructions on how to set up your own: https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/meek.git/tree/appengine/R... https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#AmazonCloudFront https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#MicrosoftAzure Then you will have to enter a bridge line manually. Follow the instructions at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#Howtochangethefrontdo... but instead of changing the "front=" part, change the "url=" part. For example, bridge meek 0.0.2.0:1 url=https://<myappname>.appspot.com/ front=www.google.com
== App Engine a.k.a. meek-google ==
Both bandwidth and instance hours were up about 19%.
Here is how the Google costs broke down: 6304 GB $756.59 2597 instance hours $129.84 Compared to the previous month: 5316 GB $637.93 2173 instance hours $108.64
https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/88F745840F47CE0C6A4FE61D827950B06F9E45...
== Amazon a.k.a. meek-amazon ==
Both usage and cost were down a bit from the previous month.
Asia Pacific (Singapore) 114M requests $136.79 884 GB $117.92 Asia Pacific (Sydney) 443K requests $0.55 3 GB $0.34 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) 51M requests $61.03 305 GB $39.32 EU (Ireland) 173M requests $208.17 1598 GB $127.21 South America (Sao Paulo) 5M requests $9.91 23 GB $5.31 US East (Northern Virginia) 46M requests $45.56 418 GB $33.26 -- total 389M requests $462.01 3231 GB $323.36
https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/3FD131B74D9A96190B1EE5D31E91757FADA1A4...
== Azure a.k.a. meek-azure ==
meek-azure increased a lot because of improved performance this month.
https://onionoo.torproject.org/bandwidth?fingerprint=AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89... Estimated bandwidth use this month: 2015-04 1982 GB Compared to last month: 2015-03 737 GB
https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8A...
David Fifield
Earlier reports in this series: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007429.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007576.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007716.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-December/007916.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-January/008082.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008235.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-March/008427.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008596.html
