I have a website (animewallpapers.com) that takes up about 150 MB of disk space, and transfers about 30 GB of data per month. It is one of several websites hosted on my dedicated server at dialtoneinternet.com. They charge $3 per excess GB transferred, _but_ they use the "95 percentile" method of calculating GB transferred such that the GB they calculate is higher than the actual amount transferred due to traffic peaks.

The end result is that currently I am paying $200 per month for this website.

Is there a high-quality place where I can host this site cheaper?

Hi,

If you don't mind answering, how much bandwidth do you use collectively for all the sites on your server?

On a separate matter, how do you figure the single site alone is costing $200 a month? The 30 gb of traffic it gets, at $3 each, is only $90, and would have to be in excess of the 50 gb with every server, meaning you are dong somewhere around 80 gb or more monthly. Are you alloting past of the cost of the server to that one site? If not, it just doesn't add up.

I would think knowing the answers to these questions would help in making recommendations, which is my reason for asking.

As I said in my previous message:

They charge $3 per excess GB transferred, _but_ they use the "95 percentile" method of calculating GB transferred such that the GB they calculate is higher than the actual amount transferred due to traffic peaks.

The 95 percentile method about triples the amount of bandwidth they bill me for. (I think this may be why some places charge $10 per GB...while other places charge $3 per GB. The $10 per GB places charge by the actual gigabyte. The $3 per GB places charge by the 95 percentile method. But it's just a guess.)

My entire server uses 40 GB of bandwidth per month. AnimeWallpapers.com uses 30 GB of that. But going by the 95 percentile method, my server uses 120 GB per month. Each GB over 50GB is considered "excess transfer", so I am billed for 70 GB of excess transfer. At $3 per GB, that works out to $210 of excess transfer fees.

If it were not for AnimeWallpapers.com, the entire server would only use 10 GB of bandwidth per month (or 30 GB using the 95 percentile method). This is under 50 GB, and in that case we would not incur excess transfer fees.

This is why I am looking for other places to host AnimeWallpapers.com.

Here is an example taken directly from their support site about the 95 percentile vs. average.

The magenta line, at around 141 kilobytes per second, is their average rate (351 GB/mo), and the orange-brown line is their 95th percentile rate (1013 GB/mo).

Does anyone know who else charges like this? Does VDI?

Thanks,
Scott

Hello

Basically with VDI they give you what is alotted to your account.

Basically if you pay for a 1mbps line it's just like you getting a 1mbps T1 to your house, there are also burstable plans where there are no limits but that 95 precentile thing sounds like a bucnh of crap to me just to get money. VDI charges per 1mbps line (roughly 300gb) but thats because they only provide dedicated hosting to webhosting companies and not to individual's)



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Try - http://www.tera-byte.com they have a 40gb plan for $27.50 a month. Hosted on cobalt raq3 servers that have very little downtime.


Originally posted by pmak0:
As I said in my previous message:

The 95 percentile method about triples the amount of bandwidth they bill me for. (I think this may be why some places charge $10 per GB...while other places charge $3 per GB. The $10 per GB places charge by the actual gigabyte. The $3 per GB places charge by the 95 percentile method. But it's just a guess.)

My entire server uses 40 GB of bandwidth per month. AnimeWallpapers.com uses 30 GB of that. But going by the 95 percentile method, my server uses 120 GB per month. Each GB over 50GB is considered "excess transfer", so I am billed for 70 GB of excess transfer. At $3 per GB, that works out to $210 of excess transfer fees.

If it were not for AnimeWallpapers.com, the entire server would only use 10 GB of bandwidth per month (or 30 GB using the 95 percentile method). This is under 50 GB, and in that case we would not incur excess transfer fees.

This is why I am looking for other places to host AnimeWallpapers.com.