RE: 95th percentile reports
- From: "Robert" <rzeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:52:38 -0700
Here's how it works:
Our upstream counts every bit of our traffic. Every seconds an average is
taken. During a month's time, the top 5% (36 hours) of samples are thrown
out. We are then billed on the highest sample, excluding the top 5%. In
our case it is $400 per meg. Our connection is a 100Mbit port. If
something went wrong we could get nailed with a huge bill. We have about
50 email acounts and a dozen low traffic web sites. Out 95th averages
about 200Kbps = $80 / month.
I am told that this is a common billing method.
-
Robert
Other related posts:
