By Shinda Singh
From my understanding on VPC and bandwidth usage - traffic between droplets within a VPC doesn’t count towards the bandwidth quotas.
Does this count when droplets connect via the private ips only? Does accessing a droplet via its public ip also count?
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Hello,
In your case, it is best to use the private network interface.
Any data transfer sent by a Droplet using a public network interface will count against the transfer pool for that Droplet’s account. All IPv6 traffic uses the public interface. Data transfer between Droplets over the VPC network uses a private network interface.
Best, Bobby
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