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