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Publishing server stats publicly, good or bad idea?
manoaratefy
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in Providers
Good morning,
I'm now asking if publishing server stats (memory usage & server load) is a good or bad idea. The base idea is to show to potential customers that servers are not overloaded.
Best regards.
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Not a bad idea as such but it would just be a snapshot of the moment in time that you ran the benchmark or whatever to measure the memory / load (unless you're talking about 'live' statistics).
And about live statistics?
Do you mean something like https://github.com/firehol/netdata ?
I think yes. Always transparent, if you are a good host and manage your systems well what do you have to be afraid of
Or http://pinguzo.com
It's a good idea but I guess most people will not take that serious, since someone could fake that.
I would say yes with the caveat that simple figures don't always tell the whole story.
For example, the load on my shared web host is regularly between 10-30(*) but I haven't noticed any performance problems.
(*) Monitored by https://github.com/Munzy/ServerStatus
ps Thanks @AlyssaD
Everything can be faked. Or you can have "5 minute real time monitoring"
I'm of the opinion of "why not"? Good or bad, clients want to know.
http://drgn.biz/servers
It is a good idea only if you are not overselling VPS.
Honesty and transparency will always be appreciated in this market.
And if you are it's a better idea to hide it from your clients? Overselling is good for clients and providers. The only time overselling is bad is when the provider has no clue what they are doing.
I thought it was a good idea until many people started opening tickets asking to be put on servers with 95% free memory instead of the one with 40% free memory. Same for CPU, load. Maybe it works for some, but if you actually try to fill your servers it might become a headache. If you have servers that are mostly empty it looks great.
I think @KuJoe 's is good, because it is a tooltip with percentages, but when people see graphs it's kind of a different story.
It's a great idea. People DDoSing you can see their impact, with nice web gui statistics.
Not if the ddos takes down the gui as well.