Hi Roger, Thanks for responding so quickly! On 08/12/13 18:29, Roger Dingledine wrote:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 04:00:06PM +0000, Nick Sheppard wrote:At the end of the month I got a bill for 120 dollars. And Amazon were quite right - they were charging me for the 1024 GB of storage I had accidentally asked for by not changing the default when I set up the instance. The first 30 GB were free, the other 994 I was paying for. And I was only actually using 1.5 GB ...*Storage*? As in, disk space? Surely you mean bandwidth, but you seem quite clearly to mean disk space, so I'm confused.
I did indeed mean storage. At least on eu-west-1 (Ireland), you get a free disk space allocation of 30GB-months for each month. With my 1024 GB, I had used that up in 30/1024 of a month, or about 21 hours. After that I started being charged.
Everything else I used was within the free allowance (eg I used about 900,000 io requests out of an allowance of 2 million). My bill was quite clearly itemized!
So ... if you've recently set up an AWS EC2 cloud relay with the Tor AMI, check your storage, and your billing!Are you setting up a relay or a bridge? https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayOrBridge
I left it as the default AMI loaded by the tor-project website. The only torrc changes I made were to change the nickname and to put in some ContactInfo.
Well, we know the free offer only lasts for a year after you first open your AWS account. And I might well consider paying after that, if the first year goes well.In any case, I think the tor-project website AWS screenshots urgently need to be changed to reflect the current setup procedure, with a warning not to accept the 1024 GB default and an explicit recommendation about the amount of storage to ask for (was my guess of 10 GB reasonable?).Yuck. I have worried since the beginning of the 'cloud bridge' project that we were just signing people up for a future bait-and-switch by the enormous uncaring for-profit company. But then, I figured I was just a cloud hater so I should let people move forward with their vision of the future. :)
Sorry you got bitten. :(
Worth it for the experience, I say. And more worth it if I can share that experience ...
Thanks again, Nick _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays