On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:56:36AM -0700, Arthur D. Edelstein wrote: > > Amazon sucks and they don't have any automatic way to shut down a > > service. I emailed them and they were very clear about that. The best > > you can do is set up an email alert at different cost threshold (which I > > have done). But that requires someone with credentials to be awake and > > online when it happens. This is the main reason I want to drop Amazon. > > (Apart from the billing concerns, Amazon's CDN, technically, is nice and > > fast and reliable.) > > Would it make sense to add some code to your meek server to monitor > bandwidth usage and automatically shut off if a limit is reached?
I don't think that helps because I think you will still get charged for requests+bandwidth even if the origin server is unresponsive or returns an error. I could be wrong about this. Yawning wrote some such code a while back. Even if you cut off all abusive use of bandwidth, if the adversary can figure out how to charge you for requests, they cost $1 per million on Amazon. _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
