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

[David Fifield]

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for December 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
December 2015  $561.29 +  $603.27 +  $172.60 =  $1337.16
--
total by CDN  $8607.22 + $9064.72 + $1292.89 = $18964.83 grand total

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2015-09-01&end=2015-12-31&transport=meek

The number of users increased by about 1,000 in December 2015.

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

I set up a bridge that is not rate-limited. If you use it, your meek
will go a lot faster.
https://bugs.torproject.org/17890
The catch is that you have to set up a CDN or upload a PHP file
yourself. 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:
	2528 GB             $303.39
	5158 instance hours $257.90
Compared to the previous month:
	2162 GB             $259.52
	6856 instance hours $342.83

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


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

Asia Pacific (Singapore)      56M requests  $67.98   425 GB  $58.83
Asia Pacific (Sydney)          2M requests   $3.37    10 GB   $1.41
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)          30M requests  $37.14   242 GB  $31.64
EU (Ireland)                 142M requests $171.48   968 GB  $76.50
South America (Sao Paulo)      5M requests  $11.03    31 GB   $7.46
US East (Northern Virginia)   86M requests  $86.54   635 GB  $49.88
--
total                        324M requests $377.54  2314 GB $225.72

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


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

Zone 1  1560 GB  $135.71
Zone 2   267 GB  $ 36.89
--
total   1827 GB  $172.60

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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