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M-Lab (host a measurement site)
www.measurementlab.net/contribute/Bandwidth sharing co op / academic testbedstorage/m-labJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 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'
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict fails-quota: the free allowance is too small to matter. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| 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 |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution institution |
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| Egress | you supply it; M-Lab supplies an API key and measurement-server config |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown Docker-based measurement slices; BigQuery for the resulting data |
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| Tooling | M-Lab host-managed docs, docker, API key |
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| Composes with | none for storage |
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| Reliability | Node is a public measurement vantage point; your bandwidth is consumed by other people's tests. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 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
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "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'","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read