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Appreciate you keeping us honest. There are a few things I can say without making false promises.

Once we finish and rollout full VPC support we believe the absolute majority of use cases will not incur bandwidth charges since most apps run on the same DC as their DBs.

We do not plan to charge for private network / VPC traffic.

We have not yet decided to extend the free egress public network bandwidth beyond Dec-2019 and whatever happens we will provide users with time to plan for the change (say 60 days).

If we decide to not extend it, users will incur .01/GB in all DO regions which is one of the most competitive bw fees in the industry.

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> If we decide to not extend it, users will incur .01/GB in all DO regions which is one of the most competitive bw fees in the industry.

Hardly. Maybe if you're comparing yourself to the ridiculous prices of AWS, GCP or Azure but definitely not if you look at the rest of the industry.

I can get, assuming bandwidth is kept at a sub-optimal 10% utilization (which should definitely be optimizable by scaling your instances):

- Unlimited traffic with a 250Mbit/s port from OVH for $32/month, which comes to $0.003/GB

- Unlimited traffic with a 400Mbit/s port from Scaleway for 16 EUR/month, which comes to $0.0013/GB

- Overage traffic on any plan from Hetzner for 0.001 EUR/GB.

And then there are the Bandwidth Alliance members who give free egress to CloudFlare, which then charges nothing to most users: Data Space, Dreamhost managed hosting, Linode, Packet.net and Vapor.

If you need even more traffic, you can start to buy transit, which is dirt cheap.

Bandwidth costs are the number one reason I won't even look at most cloud providers.

>And then there are the Bandwidth Alliance members who give free egress to CloudFlare, which then charges nothing to most users: Data Space, Dreamhost managed hosting, Linode, Packet.net and Vapor.

You are stating that as if DO is not a member.

[1]https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/digitalocean/

My words were "Bandwidth Alliance members who give free egress to CloudFlare".

DO is a member but they do not give free egress to CloudFlare (or anyone else).

Wow, I was under the impression all Alliance Member get free egress to Cloudflare.

So what is the point of DO being a member?

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