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How to set a traffic limit to avoid unwanted charges?

Posted August 5, 2020 1.5k views
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I read that If the outbound transfer exceeds the amount included with my Droplets at end of the cycle, I will be charged $0.01 per excess gigabyte.

I am concerned about this potential automatic charge.

Is there a way to automatically disable droplet in case the limit is reached?

Alternatively, are there any ways through a firewall to set this limit and block excess traffic or turn off the droplet?

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bobbyiliev August 5, 2020

Hey @iljkr,

I don’t believe that this is currently possible but it sounds like an interesting idea.

The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/

In the meantime what you could do is to setup Billing alerts so that you get early notifications when you reach a certain usage amount. You can do that via your Control Panel -> then go to Billing -> then under Billing Alerts hit the ‘Add Alert’ button.

Hope that helps!
- Bobby.

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Taux1c August 6, 2020

While it isn’t possible to do this exactly you can reduce the traffic a few ways.

First you can use software like this.

https://vitux.com/how-to-limit-network-bandwidth-in-ubuntu/

To monitor and cut off traffic, also you could just close the ports being accessed via your firewall. These don’t stop traffic but they reduce it by a lot!

Also you could use compression and caching and sites like cloudflare to serve the site to reduce bandwidth and improve performance.

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kristendunt May 21, 2021

It’s not possible.

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