Hi,

Is there a way to cap the bandwidth usage for a particular account on a host?

For example, if the client buys 20GB of transfers, can the server be configured such that the client cannot use more than what he is allocated?

Thanks in advance!

I believe mod_bandwidth and/or mod_throttle does this for you?

http://www.cohprog.com/mod_bandwidth.html
http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/

Hope this helps.

thanks allera,

the volume policy from mod_throttle seems to be able to do the trick.

however, I assume both modules work only for web traffic? anyway to control ftp/mail bandwidth usage as well?

For FTP, it depends on your ftp server. Most will allow a certain amount of bandwidth per month, I believe. I think it is a setting you can set globally, or on a per-ftp-server basis (but I'm not sure). Refer to your ftp server's documents to see if there is such a setting.

As for mail, you might want to set quotas for the mailboxes. That might keep its traffic down. I really don't know of a way to limit mail bandwidth. Maybe someone else does?

If anyone else has ideas on these, I'd be interested in hearing them. :)