[tor-project] Summary of meek's costs, January 2016

[vmon]

> 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 at 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=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2015-11-01&end=2016-01-31&transport=meek
>
> 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/88F745840F47CE0C6A4FE61D827950B06F9E4534
>
>
> == 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/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE516564D
>
>
> == 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/AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8A34
>
>
> Earlier reports in this series:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#Costs
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