By CoffeeCups
Hello,
question about a droplet’s transfer limit:
From what I understood, solely outbound transfer with a public network will count against the transfer limit, while transfers within its private network (i.e. with another droplet) is excluded.
If I use a managed database on the same account, is it possible to use it within a private network with my droplet, so that a communication between the two will not be counted against the transfer limit at any time?
Thanks
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Hey there,
You can enable private networking on your Managed Database to enable connectivity over the private network instead of the public network! You’d just need to use the private connection string from a Droplet with private networking enabled in the same datacenter as your cluster.
Regards, Ethan Fox Developer Support Engineer II - DigitalOcean
That’s correct (at least as I understand it), although technically the initial request coming in would count as well as the response. Just not the traffic between the database and the droplet.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/private-networking/overview/
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