By Kenny Stier
I’m using Ubuntu 14.04 on my droplet and when I run sudo apt-get update it appears to get sources from Digital Ocean’s website. Is this considered Private Networking or am I using metered bandwidth when downloading packages from your repo?
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Currently mirrors.digitalocean.com exists in only one location for all data centers. While the mirrors provide increased speed the data is passed over the public network and is metered.
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