How do you know which hosting company charges bandwidth with 95th percentile???

Could someone tell me how much GB webhostingtalk currently chew up & where it is hosted coz i'm planning for my own vboard :)

aaron

Aaron,

I believe WHT is currently chewing through around 9-10 GB per month and growing each month - Matt or Annette will be able to clarify :) It depends on how quickly your forums grow...

If you can't find it on their site, best just to ask them. If you've read that errrr, 5 pager by 'justcurious', you know where this site is hosted at the moment.

I think the advise to just ask EXACTLY how you are billed and counted is the best answer. The policy set here at our data center is a little easier to follow and figure i think. Being not the most geekist person ( i came from the real world) we setup the standard MRTG monitors for each server. Of course each customer has this link so they can see exactly what they are doing. We bill on an average with benchmarks ( divisions) at pretty logical levels. Starts at 50 gigs a month price goes up for every 25 gigs a month more and that is on an average basis. We dont look at a spike in use here and there. If a customers is running , say 30kbs for weeks and all of a sudden they jump to 200kbs ill normally icq, or contact then to get them to look in on their server to see if they have been hotlinked or something. This happens with freehosts especially where they have someone signup at night, load a bunch a stuff, and then link it all over the world for free download. Normally once the server owner ( the one responsible for the bill) is notified about the jump they take care of it. In our opinion that is a non-event as to billing of bandwidth. IF they have that type of use for over a week we start looking closly at the overall average they are using ( for the month) and will adjust accordingly as to billing BUT not before contactig the customers and we discuss what is going on. If they are being abused we will do everything to determine what and help them, if they are just doing a hell of a job marketing then we talk about that too. Bottom line is there are no suprises for the customer. Not everyone is some megagianthost.com. Most watch the bottom line very closly. We want to make sure and try to help them meet it. All comes down to If you break your customer to get a little more out of him this month, you lose the customer and that is a negitive cashflow situation in the log run for you (us)

Jon

Chicken ..... dont get what you mean :(

Why BC & ME have the same IP address???

aaron

This site is hosted by hostmatters.com at the moment.

Aaron,

Are you using Telstra's BigPond Cable? :D If so, it's their new proxy...

I'm using Telstra ADSL for one month but kind of disappointed :( because the speed is not consistent ..... if you were to watch an online movie clip .... the speed loads from 0 KB to about 40 KB then back to 0 KB .... the video just play & stop & play & stop. The speed is not consistently there :(

But i'm very impressed with Aussie dial-up modem though , a 56K modem can go up to 5.4KB/sec :)

BC, how is your cable speed? I know Telstra capped it max at 500++K as well. Do you have the same problem as me? By the way, do you know whether OPTUS@Home put a limit at the speed as well?

Kind of wandering away from webhosting :D

aaron

I have similar problems with my DSL. It goes in and out sometimes. The speed is consistent, but when it drops, it drops off to zero then kicks back in as if to say, "Ohhhhh, you wanted to download something? - I'm awake, really..."

Originally posted by aaronx88
I'm using Telstra ADSL for one month but kind of disappointed :( because the speed is not consistent ..... if you were to watch an online movie clip .... the speed loads from 0 KB to about 40 KB then back to 0 KB .... the video just play & stop & play & stop. The speed is not consistently there :(

But i'm very impressed with Aussie dial-up modem though , a 56K modem can go up to 5.4KB/sec :)

BC, how is your cable speed? I know Telstra capped it max at 500++K as well. Do you have the same problem as me? By the way, do you know whether OPTUS@Home put a limit at the speed as well?

Kind of wandering away from webhosting :D

aaron

Ahhhhhh, one of the few I know who's moved on to ADSL!

Yeah, one of my mates who lives in Melbourne also is on ADSL for his company and he says it's not good at all, especially if you're paying $79/month.

Surprisingly enough dial-up's more consistent than ADSL in terms of reliability. Stupid isn't it?

I'm currently on the 'uncapped' plan (which means 500mb download, uncapped upstream/downstream speed, $71.25/month) - it's ok, speed's ok but not blazing fast, reliability is actually astoundingly good (in the last 3 years I've used it it's only dropped out on me 4 times). However, Telstra's been overbilling us for the amount of usage we use and I'm not a happy camper at the moment...

Not sure about O@H - I'll ask my mate. As far as I am aware they do.

Hmm, cable would be nice... Shame I'm a whole hour out of Brisbane and therefore a 'rural' customer. Hell we don't even get the Telstra deal of $50 or whatever it is for 150 hours. It's full rate or nothing. That's why I use the wonderfully crappy IPrimus. They are as slow as hell but tend to boot me off less often than the others. :)

#Special note to our american friends. When I was over there I was using Freei and getting faster speeds than the supposedly 'blistering' pace of the Telstra Bigpond 56k connection :) Truly the internet backwaters here

Greg Moore

*hack**cough* Rural backwaters *cough**hack* Crappy Telstra *cough**hack* Lazy-ass Government *cough**hack*