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

[David Fifield]

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for July 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
--
total by CDN  $5497.73 + $6346.26 + $0.00 = $11843.99 grand total

The big event last month was an outage of meek-azure that was caused by
a mistake during an account migration:
	https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-July/038487.html
The outage is unfortunately still ongoing, although there's been
progress in getting it fixed (I opened a ticket with Microsoft support
and they have to migrate things manually). In the meantime, you can use
Tor Browser 5.0a4, which uses a newly configured CDN endpoint.

The number of users dropped below 3000, perhaps because of the
meek-azure outage.

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2015-05-01&end=2015-07-31&transport=meek

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 ==

Instance hours were up sharply, over 40%, I don't know why.

Here is how the Google costs broke down:
	2934 GB             $352.11
	7598 instance hours $379.90
Compared to the previous month:
	2807 GB             $336.87
	5299 instance hours $264.96

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


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

Number of requests was up 8% while bandwidth was down 11%.

Asia Pacific (Singapore)     155M requests $187.04  1034 GB $137.11
Asia Pacific (Sydney)          1M requests   $2.46     5 GB   $0.66
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)          28M requests  $34.08   157 GB  $20.10
EU (Ireland)                 198M requests $238.14  1124 GB  $86.91
South America (Sao Paulo)      7M requests  $16.02    50 GB  $11.94
US East (Northern Virginia)   71M requests  $71.71   395 GB  $30.90
--
total                        463M requests $549.45  2768 GB $287.62

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


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

The meek-azure outage started on July 20. You can see it clearly in the
attached graph, where bandwidth dropped almost to zero. If you are
affected by this outage, you should try Tor Browser 5.0a4, which uses a
working CDN endpoint for meek-azure. You can also manually change the
configuration in other versions of Tor Browser:
	https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-July/038496.html
	https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16634

https://onionoo.torproject.org/bandwidth?fingerprint=AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8A34
Estimated bandwidth use this month:
	2015-07 1974 GB
Compared to last month:
	2015-06 3038 GB

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
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