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Estimated Droplet Transfer Pool

Posted on September 15, 2025

Hi All:

I read https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/billing/bandwidth/

Also I read answer https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/details-on-bandwidth-billing-of-my-droplet

But still don’t understand why you make it so difficult. I don’t want any estimations, just write me how much I used.

I have Estimated Droplet Transfer Pool - 0.57 used of 613 GB. If I click “?” I see: You have accrued 42 GB of free data transfer…bla bla bla 613.

  1. What is 0.57?
  2. What is 42 GB?
  3. My limit is 1000 GiB (Why bother with your estimations?). Ok if I turned off my Droplet in a few days, and limit exceeds I understand you will charge me 0.01 per GB.

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