This is a very minor change to bring down the hosting cost of nip.io/sslip.io
AWS charged me $122 last month in bandwidth fees for one of my hosts (1.3TB transferred). Until now the host in question played a very minor role: it acted as the "This Site Has Been Blocked!" warning website for IP addresses which received takedown notices. The traffic until last month had been under the free 100GB AWS limit.
I haven't determined why the bandwidth exploded from <100GB to 1.3TB; my first priority was to stop the bleeding (of cash).
The new server is hosted on Vultr, which has much more reasonable bandwidth pricing:
| Hyperscaler | AWS | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Instance type | t4g.micro | vc2-1c-2gb |
| vCPU (cores) | 2 | 1 |
| RAM (GIB) | 1 | 2 |
| Disk (GB) | 25 | 55 |
| Linux | Ubuntu 24.04 | Fedora 44 |
| Bandwidth (GB) | 100 | 2,000 |
| $/TB overage | $90 | $10 |
| domain | sslip.io | nip.io |
IPs for blocked.nip.io:
- 64.176.22.9
- 2001:19f0:c800:2315::