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Re:How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @04:34PM (#9259294)
I'd always recommend anyone using the free tier to add a free billing alert to your AWS account. For example when I had a free tier server, it cost me roughly $5/month, so I had an alert set to $15/month.

When my free tier ran out (I got the month wrong) the alert notified me ($16 in charges) and I purchased a reserved instance to bring the cost back down to under $10/month.

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Re:How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS by TheLoneWolfling on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @07:08PM (#9260185)
Until / unless there is a way to actually put a cap on billing (not just a notification), it's something I'll stay away from when I can.
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Re:How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS by jamiesonbecker on Thursday March 26, 2015 @09:44PM (#9274323)
Which data and servers did you want deleted when you hit that cap? ;)

Although I do think a soft cap (preventing more Ec2 launches etc) would make a lot of sense.

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Re:How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS by TheLoneWolfling on Monday March 30, 2015 @03:35PM (#9292005)
I want a hard cap, as in "when cap is reached save current state to disk and don't allow any more CPU time".
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