The cost for meek-amazon was markedly higher this month, which I don't think is entirely due to the relaxed rate limits. The number of HTTPS

Fereidoon was saying that Iran recently started to agressively block Psiphon's proxies after they only receives 300-400 connection. May be that colud be a reason.

David Fifield david@bamsoftware.com writes:

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for January 2016.

        App Engine +    Amazon +    Azure = total by period

all 2014 $600.63 + $917.89 + $0.00 = $1518.52 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 May 2015 $871.64 + $896.39 + $0.00 = $1768.03 June 2015 $601.83 + $820.00 + $0.00 = $1421.83 July 2015 $732.01 + $837.08 + $0.00 = $1569.09 August 2015 $656.76 + $819.59 + $154.89 = $1631.24 September 2015 $617.08 + $710.75 + $490.58 = $1818.41 October 2015 $672.01 + $110.72 + $300.64 = $1083.37 November 2015 $602.35 + $474.13 + $174.18 = $1250.66 December 2015 $561.29 + $603.27 + $172.60 = $1337.16 January 2016 $771.17 + $1581.88 + $329.10 = $2682.15 -- total by CDN $9378.39 + $10646.60 + $1621.99 = $21646.98 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=usersta...

Halfway through January 2016 we were able to relax the rate limits on the meek backing bridges, and it showed in the number of users, which increased from 6,000 to just over 10,000 simultaneous users.

The cost for meek-amazon was markedly higher this month, which I don't think is entirely due to the relaxed rate limits. The number of HTTPS requests (which cost money on their own) was increased without a matching increase in data transfered. There was a week or so in January when the meek-amazon bridge was having trouble and dropping some connections, so that might have been the cause.

Reminder that if you configure your own CDN or App Engine account and point it at https://meek.bamsoftware.com/, you will be using a completely unlimited bridge, which will go faster and help save money.

== App Engine a.k.a. meek-google ==

Here is how the Google costs broke down: 4274 GB $512.86 5166 instance hours $258.31 Compared to the previous month: 2528 GB $303.39 5158 instance hours $257.90

https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/88F745840F47CE0C6A4FE61D827950B06F9E45...

== Amazon a.k.a. meek-amazon ==

The number of HTTPS requests is strangely high in the EU (Ireland) region. Last month was 142M, this month is 805M. However the amount of data transfered in that region did not increase (968 GB to 957 GB). I don't have an explanation for that.

Asia Pacific (Singapore) 220M requests $264.97 569 GB $78.58 Asia Pacific (Sydney) 1M requests $1.86 5 GB $0.68 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) 21M requests $25.59 161 GB $21.08 EU (Ireland) 805M requests $966.45 957 GB $76.72 South America (Sao Paulo) 6M requests $13.65 38 GB $9.17 US East (Northern Virginia) 79M requests $79.16 559 GB $43.99 -- total 1134M requests $1351.68 2291 GB $230.22

https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE51656...

== Azure a.k.a. meek-azure ==

Zone 1 3000 GB $261.02 Zone 2 493 GB $ 68.08 -- total 3494 GB $329.10

https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8A...

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