[tor-relays] A report on running a bridge on google cloud

[Matt Traudt]

On 4/26/21 1:40 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
> So for a little bit over a week now, I have been running a bridge on
> Google Cloud and it has charged less then $5. So, while too expensive
> for running relays, it seems to be an ok service for running bridges on.

Is $0.085/GB (egress) accurate[0]? Meaning you sent ~60 GB of traffic?

That sounds really really expensive, even for a bridge. As soon as your
bridge saw more meaningful usage, I would expect you to need to take it
down.

Or maybe your pockets are deeper than mine ;)

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing#standard-pricing