Trying to understand the following amount:
Droplet Bandwidth Overage (11106.53GB @ $0.01/GB) N/A N/A $111.07
This is a $5 droplet. We have 3 droplets and usual amount together with backups and snaps etc., were around $20
This morning we got a slight peak in access of the site (around 100 unique clicks), I doubt that hundred something users were able to generate 11106.53GB of data?!
What’s going on here? Can someone explain this “Overage”, it says in the description provided something about the beginning of the month and then possible change. Still this amount is ridiculous!
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i am also facing the same issue,
i created a droplet in the month of november and installed ubuntu 18
in the next 10 days, i just created a few python scripts and installed some python packages but i was billed $251 and for (21554.68GB)
this is ridiculous.
There is a way to shutdown or disabale the droplet if the free outbound limit is reached?
Hi! Bandwidth overages happen when your Droplets send more data than what’s included in their monthly allowance - our product docs have more information about bandwidth billing in general so that can be a good starting point.
If you open a ticket in the control panel, we can take a look at your account to get a breakdown of bandwidth usage per Droplet and per day. We can’t see inside Droplets to know which specific processes are causing some bandwidth usage, though, so that’s something a customer would need to investigate.
You can install something like vnstat to get that same daily usage information on your own, but if you don’t expect that much usage, it’s possible some application or insecure password was compromised to take over the Droplet and that would be the root issue to investigate. What to look for can depend on what applications you’re running but the last command and the /var/log/auth.log file are useful for checking recent logins to a server.
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