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Suggestion: Fees warning for users outside North-America.

Open romen-h opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

I think this guide needs a warning for users outside North America.

According to GCP, the free F1-micro instance has the following limit on bandwidth:

1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations per month (excluding China and Australia)

If you are using this setup from outside North America it may be possible to accumulate over 1GB of egress (DNS queries) from your PiHole server to your PC, which would incur costs.

Furthermore, if you're using a Full-Tunnel configuration that would mean that everything you download would count as egress as it is sent over the VPN to your PC outside North America.

Am I missing something? Are the terms of service regarding egress to/from North America different for users outside of NA?

romen-h avatar Feb 28 '20 20:02 romen-h