Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!


Traffic assigned by account instead by server
New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.

All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.

Traffic assigned by account instead by server

jmginerjmginer Member, Patron Provider

Hi all, we're considering a new traffic accounting method, based on the client account, instead per server.

For example, the customer order 2 VPS servers with 1 TB/month limit each one, then, their traffic pool is 2TB/month and if the server A reaches the 1 TB limit, but the server B has only used 100 GB, then, the server A can still be active and without any network restriction.

What do you think about?

Comments

  • Iirc linode use this method

  • Sounds great. I'd be interested.

  • Good service.

  • zafouharzafouhar Veteran
    edited December 2017

    Good and bad at the same time.

    If ServerA has 1TB bw limit and it by mistake goes to 2TB then it means suddenly both my servers are suspended whereas with the 1TB limit only one of them would be suspended.

    So you get a negative vote from me.

  • @zafouhar said:
    Good and bad at the same time.

    If ServerA has 1TB bw limit and it by mistake goes to 2TB then it means suddenly both my servers are suspended whereas with the 1TB limit only one of them would be suspended.

    So you get a negative vote from me.

    You can't monitor and limit traffic in your server?

  • @zafouhar said:
    Good and bad at the same time.

    If ServerA has 1TB bw limit and it by mistake goes to 2TB then it means suddenly both my servers are suspended whereas with the 1TB limit only one of them would be suspended.

    So you get a negative vote from me.

    In such case, there should be an option for both VMs the max BW it can use.

  • Yura said: You can't monitor and limit traffic in your server?

    From someone who is a host: no, people can't monitor and limit traffic in their server.

  • good idea,

    would like to see an option to set % on other vps limit.
    so that the other vps won't get suspended if a gets a huge bandwidth jump.

  • ClouviderClouvider Member, Patron Provider

    That’s nothing new really. It’s often a standard with smaller providers.

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    Nice killswitch, use 2TB on one VPS, take 4 VPS's offline.

  • AlexanderMAlexanderM Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    Its called "Bandwidth Pooling" :)

  • @Yura said:

    @zafouhar said:
    Good and bad at the same time.

    If ServerA has 1TB bw limit and it by mistake goes to 2TB then it means suddenly both my servers are suspended whereas with the 1TB limit only one of them would be suspended.

    So you get a negative vote from me.

    You can't monitor and limit traffic in your server?

    Can you? ;)

    You can but up to a point, I think the issue with bandwidth pooling is that if you reach the bandwidth limit then it means all your account is suspended.

  • Always a useful feature, to make your offering stand out.

    Thanked by 1Clouvider
  • ClouviderClouvider Member, Patron Provider

    Who suspends on bandwidth excess these days ?

    Uptime should always prevail, normal business practise is to bill for overages.

    Thanked by 1hackerman
  • @Clouvider said:
    Who suspends on bandwidth excess these days ?

    Uptime should always prevail, normal business practise is to bill for overages.

    Look at you and your UPPITY demeanor yet again, Dom. Pretty sure at least 3/4 of LET would rather be turned off than charged another nickel.

  • pbgbenpbgben Member, Host Rep

    What about premium locations, where bandwidth is an issue?

  • I'd actually welcome it. As well as the ability to enable auto top-up with clearly defined limit. E.g. "while traffic >=2 and traffic <= 10: top_up(1)"

  • @AlexanderM said:
    Its called "Bandwidth Pooling" :)

    If you call it Virtual Rack® you can charge more for it, though.

  • @szarka said:

    @AlexanderM said:
    Its called "Bandwidth Pooling" :)

    Virtual Rack®

    Pretty sure Craigslist has the copyright on this for creepy internet hookups.

  • @WSS said:

    @szarka said:

    @AlexanderM said:
    Its called "Bandwidth Pooling" :)

    Virtual Rack®

    Pretty sure Craigslist has the copyright on this for creepy internet hookups.

Sign In or Register to comment.