Hi,

This may be a stupid question :rolleyes:: when some company offers $x/gig of bandwith usage for colocation, are they talking about gigabits or gigabytes?

By example, affordablecolo charges $1.50/gig but wich gig?

Thanks

No, that's a good question. Usually, they're talking about gigabytes.

People are supposed to write gigabytes as GB and gigabits as Gb, but too many people don't follow that convention. :rolleyes:

I believe that they are referring to a monthly total of accrued transfer, which would be gigabyte. When referring to gigabit, they usually are talking about the connection or pipe in which the transfer takes place.

Lumute : actually its a great question.

here are the 2 general ways colocation is billed by.

1.) so much money per GigaByte per month so say 50 Gigabytes of transfer per month for say 100 dollars.

2.) 1mbit connection which can do around 300GigaByte but you have to be carefull because if you burst upto 10 or 100mb/s whatever they allow then if its for a while then your monthly average will go way up and will end up costing you overage say 100 more dollars per mb/s

but either way its all basically the same just monitoried differently priced different.

1mbit connection which can do around 300GigaByte Well, if you are being billed on a 95th you will not get a full 300 GB out of 1 Mbps. You will if it's done on average billing (which is really what being billed by the GB is)

I thought there was an actual billing method? That does not convert mbps to gb but just measures each gigabyte sent out/recieved?

i have never colocationed so i am not up to par with the 95 percentile system

could somone go in depth for all of us that are not exactly sure how it works?

thanks.

Generally (note I said generally), bandwidth priced in gigabytes will be $1-5 per gigabyte. Prices for gigabit connections will be more like $1000-100000 per gigabit, but vary much more drastically than gigabyte charges because of cogent and other extremely low priced solutions as well as larger, (don't flame for this) more reputable tier 1 backbones.

I would suggest you do a search for 95th percentile before signing anything. It can really screw you if you have bursty connections, and it is in the favor of the host to offer it.

Drew

Generally can be said:

The SPEED of networks measured in bits
Gb = Gigabit = Gbit
Mb = megabit = Mbit
Kb = Kilobit = Kbit

A transfer volume is measured in Bytes
GB = GigaByte = Gbyte
MB = MegaByte = Mbyte
KB = KiloByte = Kbyte

Thanks all for clearing me :)... well, I don't get the 95th part but I am getting a GB plan, not a Mb one, so I think that will not bother me...

Thanks...

Originally posted by drewnick
I would suggest you do a search for 95th percentile before signing anything. It can really screw you if you have bursty connections, and it is in the favor of the host to offer it.

Most hosts are charged by 95th...

95th works okay when you're talking about 20 Mbps from a host. But for an individual server, it makes no sense for the end-user.

Drew