On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:37:44 +0600 Roman Mamedov rm@romanrm.ru allegedly wrote:
My history with DigitalOcean ($5/month), in/out/total:
Dec '12 4.99 TiB | 5.32 TiB | 10.31 TiB | 44.00Mbit/s Nov '12 6.35 TiB | 6.84 TiB | 13.19 TiB | 43.70 Mbit/s Oct '12 2.10 TiB | 2.26 TiB | 4.36 TiB | 13.97 Mbit/s
A caveat on digitalocean. I signed up for a trial (and am happy) but I couldn't believe that my current traffic level was sustainable long term at that price point. So I specifically asked the question "what can I realistically use?" They replied:
"We are currently offering free bandwidth and we certainly appreciate you reaching out to us because you are pushing a substantial amount and we do have backend processes running that constantly run consistency and health checks and bandwidth usage is something that we monitor. Mainly for detecting abuse or otherwise suspicious traffic.
Your current traffic level of 32-40Mbps is fine. In the future we will eventually switch away from a free bandwidth model. Initially we roll out features to make everything simpler and to gauge our customers usage and to understand how to best cater the service to their needs."
So - prices /will/ go up and/or bandwidth allowance /will/ go down.
Best
Mick
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