Hosting provider allocation advice

[Wouter de Jong]

Hi Garry,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garry Dolley [mailto:gdolley at arpnetworks.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 01:35
> To: Wouter de Jong
> Cc: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
> Subject: Re: Hosting provider allocation advice
> 
> Man, you guys are sure doing it the hard way ;)
> 
> Why not just monitor customer interfaces, whether it be VLANs,
> physical ports on routers/switches, even *nix boxes, pop the data in
> Cacti / RRD, and write some scripts to report 95th percentile and/or
> total data transfer?  Cacti already has templates for both of these
> methods.

The main reason for this, is that we don't charge backup traffic or
traffic 
between servers from a customer, because these can be in different
vlans.
And some other reasons I don't know the details of.

I would be very happy with 95% based billing myself though.

Regards,

Wouter