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

Wed Nov 18 21:32:27 UTC 2015

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for October 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
--
total by CDN  $7443.58 + $7987.32 + $946.11 = $16377.01 grand total

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

In October we had about 4,000 simultaneous users all month.

There was an unfortunate outage of meek-amazon (not the result of
censorship, just operations failure). Between 30 September and 9 October
the bridge had an expired HTTPS certificate. 
	[tor-talk] Outage of meek-amazon
	https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-October/039231.html
	https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-October/039234.html
And then, as a side effect of installing a new certificate, the bridge's
fingerprint changed, which caused Tor Browser to refuse to connect. It
used to be that we didn't include fingerprints for the meek bridges, but
now we do, so we didn't anticipate this error and didn't notice it
quickly.
	Update the meek-amazon fingerprint to B9E7141C594AF25699E0079C1F0146F409495296
	https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17473
	[tor-talk] Changed fingerprint for meek-amazon bridge (attn support)
	https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-November/039397.html
Interestingly, the meek-amazon bridge still had about 400 simultaneous
users (not as much as normal) during the time when the fingerprint
didn't match. I would have expected it to go almost to zero. Maybe it's
people using an old version of Tor Browser (from before March 2015) or
some non–Tor Browser installation.

Our grant for meek-azure ran out and now it costs money. Accordingly
I've rate-limited it to limit costs. I set it to 1.1 MB/s on 2 October
and to 0.8 MB/s on 30 October.
	[tor-talk] meek-azure now rate-limited
	https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-October/039169.html

meek-google was also out for a few days around 30 October because I
messed up the app upload and pointed it to the wrong bridge.

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:
	2842 GB             $341.06
	6619 instance hours $330.95
Compared to the previous month:
	2871 GB             $344.53
	5451 instance hours $272.55

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

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

Usage of meek-amazon was quite low this month because of bridge outages
having to do with an expired HTTPS certificate and a changed relay
fingerprint.

Asia Pacific (Singapore)       6M requests  $8.24   36 GB  $5.05
Asia Pacific (Sydney)        635K requests  $0.79    1 GB  $0.21
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)           1M requests  $1.71    5 GB  $0.71
EU (Ireland)                  39M requests $46.81  130 GB  $9.97
South America (Sao Paulo)      2M requests  $4.98    5 GB  $1.23
US East (Northern Virginia)   24M requests $24.36   86 GB  $6.64
--
total                         74M requests $86.89  266 GB $23.81

https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE516564D
(Note new fingerprint.)

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

Zone 1  1652 GB  $202.51
Zone 2   586 GB   $98.13
--
total   2238 GB  $300.64

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
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