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. > 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 > 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. :( --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
