DigitalOcean DigitalOcean to start charging for bandwidth !

eva2000 · Apr 25, 2018

DigitalOcean users have been lucky up to now as DO didn't track or bill for bandwidth in excess of your bandwidth pooled allowance quota. But that is all about to change from June 1, 2018 onwards DigitalOcean Bandwidth Billing FAQ | DigitalOcean

Why is DigitalOcean updating bandwidth pricing?
As our product portfolio expands, we are clarifying our billing policies so customers can evaluate and plan their infrastructure with greater confidence. We've always had transfer quotas for outbound data from Droplets. We're introducing a pooled transfer allowance across all Droplets to make it easier to understand consumption and allow customers to use as much of their allowance as they need.
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When will this pricing change go into effect?
Starting on June 1, 2018 outbound data transfer in excess of the pooled allowance will be tracked. Charges will appear on the July 1 invoice.

How will this change my costs?
Based on our analysis of the historical usage patterns of our customers, less than one percent of users will exceed their pooled allowance.

To help you understand how this change may affect you, we will collect usage data and display projections about your transfer pool starting on April 24 and throughout the month of May on your account's Billingpage.

The first bandwidth bill under the new pricing will appear on the invoice for July 1, based on usage during the month of June.

How often is the data updated in the Control Panel?
Outbound data transfer and projected transfer allowance is updated once daily.

What type of data transfer counts towards the total transfer pool?
Only outbound transfer is counted.

This means any transfer sent from a Droplet over a public network interface is deducted from the data transfer pool. In all other situations, transfer is not metered. Uploading data from your computer or the Internet to a Droplet is not metered. Communication among Droplets using private network is not metered.

What is my monthly transfer allowance?
Data transfer allowance is accrued only when Droplets are active, so your monthly transfer allowance depends on your monthly Droplet usage. Droplets are billed per hour up to a maximum of 672 hours per month (28 days multiplied by 24 hours). For every hour the Droplet exists during the month, whether it's powered on or not, it will earn 1/672 of its total allocation up to that limit. Once it's been active for 672 hours, it has reached its full bandwidth allowance.

For example, if a Droplet's maximum monthly data transfer allowance is 1TB, it will accrue 1.5 GB for each hour that the Droplet exists (1TB/672 hours) Fractional usage is rounded to increments of 1GB. 1.49GB of use will be rounded down to 1GB. 1.5GB will be rounded up to 2GB.
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deltahf · Apr 29, 2018

Interesting. I'd say this is from people abusing the service, running torrents through VPN servers and running seed boxes, etc. Disappointing!

eva2000 · Apr 29, 2018

Actually since only outbound traffic bandwidth is counted i suspect it might be due to recent VestaCP security exploit turning all DO droplets into compromised servers for hackers to launch outbound DDOS attacks Security - Ouch VestaCP servers hacked !. It caused DigitalOcean network issues and forced them to block VestaCP know port. I'd imagine alot of outbound DDOS attack traffic bandwidth was consumed too. Though that does mean DO customers who have their droplets' security compromised will be paying alot more in extra bandwidth cost !

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