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Re: [PLUG] bandwidth calcuations
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Hi Chris!
Do you log traffic on your existing servers? That's the best way to
tell what you need to buy. If not, do it for a month, or 2 weeks, or
whatever period you can extrapolate to monthly. I used a combination of
traffic logs (firewall) and webalizer logs to estimate my hosting
traffic before moving some hosting out to a VPS.
The second thing to do is make sure your provider gives you some form a
bandwidth tracking. Then in the first month you can check weekly to see
how your estimate is. Also, look for a provider that will warn you
about overage possibilites prior to end-of-month, rather than billing
you some outrageous $/1M overage rate in your next billing cycle. (One
of the things I liked about the VPS host I signed up for.)
Kevin
On 2007-05-24 12:49, W. Chris Shank wrote:
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> A) how can you calculate this so you don't get a big surprise bill? I wanted to use my current T1 to baseline. So if I were to peak my T1 100% all month, how much usage would that be. I have a a pretty good idea of how much traffic I have now - so maybe a could figure out how much i'll need for growth.
>
> B) who is your colo with? I'm investigating providers
>
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