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Bandwidth limit

Posted on January 16, 2014

Hi, Is there an option to limit my server bandwidth? Or limit my max monthly cost? (Automatically)

Thanks!



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Hello there,

Droplets include free outbound data transfer, starting at 1,000 GiB/month for the smallest plan. Excess data transfer is billed at $0.01/GiB. For example, the cost of 1,000 GiB of overage is $10. Inbound bandwidth to Droplets is always free.

You can monitor the usage and set an alarm if the usage exceeds 1000GiB so you can be aware of the extra costs that may occur.

These docs will help you to create a monitoring alert. DigitalOcean Monitoring is a free, opt-in service that gathers metrics about Droplet-level resource utilization. It provides additional Droplet graphs and supports configurable metrics alert policies with integrated email Slack notifications to help you track the operational health of your infrastructure.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/how-to/set-up-alerts/

You can also check our Bandwidth calculator which is a tool to help calculate and explain bandwidth allowances for Droplets on DigitalOcean. For more info, see our bandwidth billing docs.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/bandwidth

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