Do you charge for bandwidth overages?

Posted on November 11, 2014

I recently setup a mumble chat server… on the $5.00 a month plan and am just wondering if you charge for going over on your bandwidth usage at this time. I know back in March you said you didn’t but I don’t want to get stuck with a big bill if you are charging now.

Thanks.

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Kamal Nasser

November 12, 2014

Hi! We’re still not charging for bandwidth yet. Once we do, we’ll make sure that all users are notified beforehand. :)

alexdo

November 27, 2023

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

Regards