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

Mon Dec 14 11:50:09 UTC 2015

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for November 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
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
--
total by CDN  $8045.93 + $8461.45 + $1120.29 = $17627.67 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2015-08-01&end=2015-10-31&transport=meek

The number of users is holding steady at around 4,000–5,000.

meek-google had an outage as a result of a server migration between 23
November and 4 December.

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:
	2162 GB             $259.52
	6856 instance hours $342.83
Compared to the previous month:
	2842 GB             $341.06
	6619 instance hours $330.95

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

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

Asia Pacific (Singapore)      39M requests  $47.84   361 GB  $52.28
Asia Pacific (Sydney)          1M requests   $2.24     4 GB   $0.64
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)          16M requests  $20.27   106 GB  $13.78
EU (Ireland)                 122M requests $146.93   736 GB  $58.25
South America (Sao Paulo)      3M requests   $8.43    11 GB   $2.71
US East (Northern Virginia)   78M requests  $78.74   535 GB  $42.01
--
total                        263M requests $304.45  1755 GB $169.67

https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE516564D

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

Zone 1  1467 GB  $126.31
Zone 2   350 GB   $47.87
--
total   1817 GB  $174.18

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
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-September/009533.html
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009672.html
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-November/009941.html
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