Oracle may reclaim your idle vps

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@default said: Solution: Tor relay node. That would consume bandwidth while also helping with privacy in these troubled times caused by modern politicians.

And Tor has just announced they now allow 4 relays per each IPv4, up from 2. Now it should be possible to reach some serious numbers on the 4-core ARM instance (hundreds of Mbits).

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@udonworld said:

@mustafamw3 said: Network utilization is less than 10%

... does this mean, on a 4 OCPU A1 instance that comes with a 4 Gbps NIC, you must use 400 Mbps sustained to be considered not idle?

Maybe it is based on 95th-percentile like the CPU use. Or it is based on some other bandwidth limit (do they state a fair use policy with actual numbers in?). I doubt they are talking about 10% of the maximum port speed.