Re: [PLUG] bandwidth calcuations

[Kevin Brosius <cobra@compuserve.com>]

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:
> 
> 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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