[tor-dev] Summary of meek's costs, August 2015

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Fri Sep 18 23:19:07 UTC 2015


Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for August 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
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
--
total by CDN  $6154.49 + $7165.85 + $154.89 = $13475.23 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2015-06-01&end=2015-08-31&transport=meek

This month there was a big rebound as a temporary outage (not related to
censorship) with meek-azure was resolved. The user count is now almost
as high as it has ever been, at about 5000 simultaneous users.

This month is the first time we have actual usage numbers from Azure.
They told us what the cost would have been, but did not actually charge
us. This month (September) is the last month on the free grant we have
for Azure. After that, we will probably have to throttle Azure just like
the other backends. If you want to help make domain fronting more
efficient and future-proof, a good place to direct your attention is to
this ticket, which aims to start using domain fronting as a cheap,
low-volume interface to BridgeDB, instead of as a bulk data transfer
channel:
https://bugs.torproject.org/16650

If you want to set up your own bridge and CDN instance without rate
limiting, I can help you do it. Here are some docs to look at:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#Howtorunameek-serverbridge
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#GoogleAppEngine
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#AmazonCloudFront
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#MicrosoftAzure


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

Here is how the Google costs broke down:
	2920 GB             $350.38
	6128 instance hours $306.38
Compared to the previous month:
	2934 GB             $352.11
	7598 instance hours $379.90

https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/88F745840F47CE0C6A4FE61D827950B06F9E4534


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

Asia Pacific (Singapore)     150M requests $180.30  1191 GB $157.13
Asia Pacific (Sydney)          1M requests   $2.26     7 GB   $0.98
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)          28M requests  $34.17   177 GB  $22.80
EU (Ireland)                 174M requests $209.36   905 GB  $70.40
South America (Sao Paulo)      7M requests  $16.87    49 GB  $11.68
US East (Northern Virginia)   75M requests  $75.07   490 GB  $38.60
--
total                        437M requests $518.03  2821 GB $301.59

https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/3FD131B74D9A96190B1EE5D31E91757FADA1A4F3


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

This is the first month where we have actual (not estimated) usage
numbers, as a result of the new kind of account we're using.
Unfortunately (also as a result of the account transition), meek-azure
was broken until August 14, so these number really only represent half a
month.

Zone 1	1062 GB	 $92.40
Zone 2	 453 GB	 $62.49
--
total   1515 GB $154.89

https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8A34


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
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-May/008767.html
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-June/008932.html
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-July/009030.html
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-August/009213.html
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