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Updates to DigitalOcean Bandwidth Policy
Did anyone get this email from DO or this is old news?
Hello,
To help our customers understand their bandwidth usage, we’ve introduced daily usage tracking in the billing page, and have revised our bandwidth billing policy to increase allowances for accounts with multiple Droplets by pooling transfer limits and lowering the overage price to $0.01/GB. There will be no charges for bandwidth usage prior to June 1. Charges will be applicable to usage starting on June 1, and will appear on your invoice starting in July.
Based on your historical Droplet bandwidth consumption, we estimate that you may see an increase in bandwidth charges. Please visit your billing page for more information or to setup billing alerts.
To help you understand all the details about these changes, and what they mean for your DigitalOcean account, please refer to this FAQ page. You can see the transfer limits for each type of Droplet on the pricing page.
Happy Coding,
DigitalOcean
Looks like from June onwards DO will start billing b/w overages. As per their FAQ:
Q: My account is part of the January 2013 Grandfathering announcement? Are you changing this now?
A: No, all accounts grandfathered will continue to be treated as such.
So I guess pre Feb 2013 accounts are not affected by this and will remain unmetered.
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I did notice the "Droplet transfer" widget under Billing today, but didn't give it too much importance at first.
No notification email though. Maybe they're just sending the emails to people at risk of suffering higher charges (quote from your email):
I've got 38.5TB of monthly bandwidth pool to use from, so not really worried about overage.
Damn it. I created my account 03/2014. Missed it by a year.
A bit of confused to understand that "bandwidth pool" calculation on their billing section.. They dont provide per droplet calculation.. argh....
In my case:
Based on your historical usage, we do not expect an impact to your monthly invoice. Please visit your billing page for more information or to setup billing alerts.They explain it here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/digitalocean-bandwidth-billing-faq
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Ah, that means my email is on its way
Mine was a bit better!
Is your account pre feb 2013 or they awarded you for some other loyality ?
Heh, they have finally caught on
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It's amusing that bw excess is 0.01/GB but the bw included with small droplets is 0.005/GB if you count the whole cost of the droplet as bandwidth. Also, droplet-to-droplet transfer using the DO private network is free.
That suggests if you want to push a lot of transfer from a DO server, it's best to spin up a lot of small droplets and use them as a kind of CDN that you feed through the private network. You pay less for the external bw and you also get the extra network ports, processing power, and storage for free
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Its really old. Reaaaally old. Dunno when I signed up tho. I'll check it.
Edit:
Member since 01/14/2013
14th of January, 2013.
Are traffic allowance pooled? Why would you have to do this?
As per their FAQ:
Ah, good point. So there's no need to ever pay 0.01/GB. Just spin up more idle droplets to get their allowance at 0.005/GB. Of course that ties up hardware and IP addresses as well. @Jarland has DO really thought this through? Maybe it's time to be like Scaleway and charge a la carte for ipv4 addresses, making it possible to launch ipv6-only droplets.
Ya ipv6-only or w/o public ipv4 otherwise this will only result in waste of IP space as people will simply spin up many instances to increase the b/w pool which is more profitable than that overage pricing.
Or, you know, lower the bw overage pricing to 0.004/gb, so people don't feel the need to start up additional droplets... That's around 120 usd for 100mbit worth of traffic, which should be doable (nearly) anywhere in the world.
That's why I'd like to see pay-as-you-go fixed rate bandwidth fee at 0.005/GB, less hassle for both the provider and the customer.
Once I had to spin up like 20 linode $10 server for couple days powered off because one of my client had a traffic spike on his tiny linode. That makes a multi-hundred bill $70 at the end of the month, but if they could price their traffic better, I wouldn't have to waste all these stuff.
Yeah, that's the best way for them to incentivise them to:
a) raise prices or
b) reduce bandwidth on that plan.
I like it to be honest, works for me.
Honestly the only reason I have so many instances at Digitalocean is because I didn't have to worry about overages. That was literally the only reason I used DO since Vultr has always been superior in every way possible for me so looks like I'll be doing some migrations. I also made my account during the grandfather days but their payment system was fubared so I moved on (processing wasn't working on their end, or some part of their system wasn't). I did point their system processing issues when I came back year (s)? later to retry DO regarding being grandfathered and they just said that's unfortunate or something to that extent. Not that I care just that's the quality of care the only time I reached out. If a new company is having issues with payment and/or processing I just move on and don't bother to ticket. Not complaining that I'm not grandfathered I should have tried to work with them to fix their system years ago but tbh I don't have the time/care especially not for new companies.
You mean zero-based? That's psychologically pretty terrifying: every request to the server means "zomg this is costing me money!" even if the amount is tiny. And 0.005/GB is $5/TB which is pretty steep compared with competing VPS that usually come with an allowance included, priced on the idea that the allowance will usually be underutilized.
I usually won't get anywhere near using a full monthly allowance myself, but worry a little because my usage of hourly servers is to only spin them up when I want to use them for something. So if the allowance is prorated that could be an issue, e.g. a 1TB monthly allowance is just 1.3GB an hour or so. Spinning up a server and transferring a few GB of data could result in an overage charge. Sure it's pennies, but if DO thought people didn't care about pennies they wouldn't have switched from hourly to per-second billing.
That's the "cloud" way. Raise the price to something like $0.09/GB and you've got Amazon pricing, kick it up to $0.12 - $0.23/GB and you've got Google pricing.
AWS/Google don't do any inclusive traffic though, do they? And the instance is more expensive.
Bandwidth is not free. Either you put up a 10G HE.net pipe and share it across 20k 1G VPS and give everyone 'unmetered', or you charge a reasonable amount and provide the quality bandwidth that's actually usable.
Mine seems to be grandfathered still.
No BW charges!!
Sorry for being a little off topic but why would one go with Digital Ocean? Their prices don't seem very low end imo
1GB free outbound per month, unmetered inbound.
They start at $5/m which is within LET limits. Their $5 instance is maybe comparable to a $3.50 BuyVM slice in terms of hardware. So you do pay a premium. On the other hand, they are essentially never out of stock, and if you want 100 of them, you can launch them from an API and actually get them. And if you spin them back down a few hours later, you're charged only for the few hours. So they have their attractions.
My main knockaround/convenience VPS is a 1GB BuyVM slice in Las Vegas that I've had for a while, but if I want something temporary then spinning up a DO or Hetzner instance works really well. They have their uses.
Anyone with grandfathered DO account (created before January 2013) willing to setup a VPS for me.
I can pay more than the price DO asking since I need more than 1TB per month for private proxy & VPN
i have account grandfather ,,
Hey man, you know that's not allowed right
Nice way to necro a thread tho.
@Jarland
These Terms of Service are personal to you, and are not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by you except with our prior written consent.i just help for someone ,,if you need..
Is grandfathered DO accounts going to become the new OVH.de ~45euro special ?