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• Ben Wilson commented  ·  February 18, 2013 5:16 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I would pay more for private vlans.
  VXLAN is designed to solve the networking challenges, but it's still fairly new.

  Thanks!

• Paulo Scardine commented  ·  February 18, 2013 4:32 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Making internal traffic in the same datacenter free of charge would be enough for me.

• Kroeze Jordy commented  ·  February 16, 2013 12:28 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Would like this, would be even more perfect for loadbalancers

• Kenn Ejima commented  ·  February 9, 2013 9:17 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Linode shows 4 items in their bandwidth usage graph - outgoing public, incoming public, outgoing private and incoming private.

  A typical database server would look like this:

  http://cache.gyazo.com/cf3a17f094acbf17066e25fbf5160587.png

  Bunch of private IP traffic, zero public transportation.

• Kenn Ejima commented  ·  February 9, 2013 9:10 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Moisey,

  Here's my idea:

  - Since VLAN needs some resource in your backplane, you can charge for it - we certainly pay extra $$ for such flexible networking features.
  - But also consider offering single private IP space for free, for those who don't need to assemble hundreds of servers. They just need unmetered traffic between their own servers, and use ufw / iptables or whatever to secure them. Start with this dead simple feature as not having it would be no go for quite a few customers. The Lean Startup Way. :)

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  February 7, 2013 5:21 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Bandwidth will be pooled account wide for your virtual servers so you don't have to worry about sizing.

• Eric commented  ·  February 7, 2013 5:20 p.m.  ·  Delete

  I'm aware there isn't a limit, just an additional charge if I go over. That is why I wonder are you going to pool my transfer quote from all my droplets or are they separate? This can become problematic I'd I setup a load balancer infront of my servers because I would like to use a $5 server but it has the smallest quota. I would have other servers with allocated bandwidth that aren't being used yet I would still get charged if it isn't pooled.

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  February 7, 2013 4:03 p.m.  ·  Delete

  You dont have a limit to 1TB, is this unclear in the language, perhaps we can improve it some how to make it clearer? This is just the amount of bandwidth that is included and whatever is over that you will be charged at $0.02 cents.

  There would be no charge for internal traffic which is part of the reason customers request it.

  As for a vlan charge its just because of networking costs involved and limitations there.

  Thanks

• Eric commented  ·  February 7, 2013 3:50 p.m.  ·  Delete

  I would be open to it, but please think about how you are charging for bandwidth. Does this internal traffic count too? if so, then please don't double charge me.

  Also, if I want to setup some load balancing myself and put some light weight $5 servers in front, I would I be charge for any extra bandwidth usage from the sum of all my servers, or from just the public facing servers. In other words, I don't want to be limited to 1TB transfer because I have a light weight server in front of my site.

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  February 7, 2013 1:43 p.m.  ·  Delete

  You are right about the vlan limitations so we're still debating which direction to head with that.

  Given vlan limitations if we implement it there may be a small monthly charge for that, would people be open to that?

• Kenn Ejima commented  ·  February 7, 2013 1:34 p.m.  ·  Delete

  If the number of available VLANs is going to be problematic, how about just offering single private IP space? In other words, VMs are given 2 addresses (public IP and private IP) and all private IPs are accessible within the same datacenter - for instance, User A's 192.168.1.1 can talk to User B's 192.168.1.2. Less than ideal but that's what Linode does. Food for thought.

• Lyon commented  ·  February 3, 2013 2:21 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Is there any suggestions on what users can do if we have multiple machines?

  I plan on running multiple instances over time. I have three types of images: Web services, a DB, and a worker. How would you suggest we set something like that up right now if we have machines that talk to each other a lot?

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  January 21, 2013 7:12 a.m.  ·  Delete

  We are investigating offering customers private vlans for private networking but there are switching limitations on the number of available vlans which may cause an issue down the road.