M-Lab
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M-Lab (host a measurement site) Storage
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| Free tier | contribute servers, not consume storage; host-managed deployment onboarding is 'almost entirely automated' for 'any reasonably modern, high-performance, and well-connected physical or virtual server' unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Egress | you supply it; M-Lab supplies an API key and measurement-server config |
| Identity | institution institution |
| Binding | none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit |
| Interface | unknown Docker-based measurement slices; BigQuery for the resulting data |
| Tooling | M-Lab host-managed docs, docker, API key |
| Composes with | none for storage |
| Reliability | Node is a public measurement vantage point; your bandwidth is consumed by other people's tests. |
| Notes | contribute servers, not consume storage; host-managed deployment onboarding is 'almost entirely automated' for 'any reasonably modern, high-performance, and well-connected physical or virtual server' |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (2)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.measurementlab.net/contribute/ | 'Host or Sponsor an M-Lab Measurement Site ... allowing any reasonably modern, high-performance, and well-connected physical or virtual server to be added to M-Lab's fleet'; 'We are now accepting new host organizations in a second pilot phase'; 'M-Lab will provide successful applicants with an API key' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.measurementlab.net/ | 'Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful' - the deliverable is measurement data, not storage |
More fields (1)
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