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Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by jamiesonbecker » Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 1:44 AM UTC

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #28

Someone1234 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd always recommend anyone using the free tier to add a free billing alert to your AWS account. For example when I had a free tier server, it cost me roughly $5/month, so I had an alert set to $15/month. When my free tier ran out (I got the month wrong) the alert notified me ($16 in charges) and I purchased a reserved instance to bring the cost back down to under $10/month.

Until / unless there is a way to actually put a cap on billing (not just a notification), it's something I'll stay away from when I can.

Which data and servers did you want deleted when you hit that cap? ;)

Although I do think a soft cap (preventing more Ec2 launches etc) would make a lot of sense.

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by jamiesonbecker » Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 1:45 AM UTC

goalo wrote: post #14

kasabali wrote: post #11

Beware that free tier has 15 GB upload limit. from https://aws.amazon.com/free/ : Data Transfer 15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*

Yes, It is per month and further traffic costs $0.09 / GB

In case you were wondering, that adds up FAST. :)

Re: How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

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Post by TheLoneWolfling » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC

jamiesonbecker wrote: post #31

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until / unless there is a way to actually put a cap on billing (not just a notification), it's something I'll stay away from when I can.

Which data and servers did you want deleted when you hit that cap? ;) Although I do think a soft cap (preventing more Ec2 launches etc) would make a lot of sense.

I want a hard cap, as in "when cap is reached save current state to disk and don't allow any more CPU time".