Why Is My NTP Server Costing $500/Year? Part 3

When Hacker News picked up Part 1 of our series of blog posts on running public NTP servers, a contributor said, “I wish he’d explained … what they ultimately did (since there’s no part 3 that I can find).” We had dropped the ball — we had never concluded the series, had never written part 3, had never described the strategies to mitigate the data transfer costs. This blog post remedies that oversight; it consists of two parts: the first part addresses strategies to reduce the cost of running an NTP server, and the second part discusses side topics (aspects of running an NTP server)....

January 28, 2017 · 31 min · Brian Cunnie