Hello all,
My question is targeted towards providers who sell unmetered bandwidth servers. Like out of 100 customers who have unmetered 10Mbps how many would actually consume full 10meg , lets keep it to peak time for now.
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Hello all,
My question is targeted towards providers who sell unmetered bandwidth servers. Like out of 100 customers who have unmetered 10Mbps how many would actually consume full 10meg , lets keep it to peak time for now.
i bet 20-30%
Depends on the market.
Given how the internet works people really only utilize 60-70% on average due to timezone peeks etc.
If someone was to saturate a 10Mbps connection 24/7 they would receive poor service due to dropping packets etc.
How many people use their 95th percentile mark? depends if its a dedicated customer probably not, a colo customer .. your goal is to be on the 95th number at the end of the month.
I don't use my full bandwidth (unmetered). If I hit that port the packets keep dropping which will slow down the server up.
if your on a unmetered server with a hosting company more than likely they took 30-40 of you or more. and put you on a single 100Mbps interface or 1000Mbps interface. Your fighting for bandwidth. This is why you are dropping packets.
Hello.
As my Web Hosting business is only a few months old, we have 17 clients. We don't offer unmetered bandwidth as our highest package allows 90Gb of transfer per month. Not one client of ours has used over 7Gb of bandwidth in one month.
I am yet to see a client who has exceeded the limits.
A provider I worked with in the past (who shall remain unnamed) had about 120 boxes with 10mbps ports all unmetered, rented out. The total draw was about 350Mbps from them per month. Not bad since he sold 1200.
95th percentile bandwidth is fully dedicated and you should be able to burst above it freely.
just watch out how much you burst up to :)
so can we take an average of 30% to 40%
No one ever does, unless they per GB, which is more expensive. I spike to 1.3gbps but on average use 510mbps, and I have to pay for 1.3gbps. Sucks :(
Why do you even bother looking at "average"? The industry standard for bandwidth billing is 95th percentile, otherwise the network you are on would only keep your "average" capacity of 510Mbps, so when you did need more it wouldn't be available as your "average" is only 510Mbps so why should they think you would need more? Bandwidth is paid for based on the capacity that you need available at your peak basically...
Our VPS customers are currently only doing 20% of what they ordered, but that's probably mainly because of the default packages.
I once had a server at BurstNET with a 100Mbps Unmetered connection, I pulled 33TB out of the server every month. ;) I don't see why not since I was paying extra for it.
We have about 150 servers - I think we have 2 that even get close to their limit per month.
--Tina
First of all my apologies for my English, i am not a native speaker.
We sell dedicated 100 mbit and dedicated 1000 mbit connections with servers and we do see people that actually max out their ports 24/7
Usually 'rapidshare' like services (download) or Video Streaming. Altough Video Streaming customers usually order an additional server a few days after their ports maxed out.
I think it also has to do a lot with the bandwidth you actually provide , dedicated or shared unmetered. clients with 10 megabit port will not use so much traffic , since they usually not run traffic heavy sites. They usually just want to make sure they do not pay overusages.
While dedicated 100 mbit and 1000 mbit customers tend to expect a lot of traffic from their server. Its safe to say that the average usage on a dedicated port (with us) is 70%. Shared 100 mbit/ 1000 mbit we used to offer in the past, but indeed these customers do actually use a lot less bandwidth on their ports. I guess it is because they do not expect to be able to use the full port speed at any or everytime.
Shared ports usually run max 30% of their full port speed usage. Not because this is the hard limit (its actually around 60% here) but because the customer has less traffic heavy sites.
So the type of service you offer seems to matter a lot for the actual link utilization in % of max port speed. Shared vs Dedicated and 10 vs 100 vs 1000 mbit.
I think that this has to do with the clients expectation of the maximum speed they can expect and they shop for the right service for their site.
I only asked because if someone is maxing out their ports 24/7 that is the best time to upgrade. I would if it was like that. I only hit my ports every now and then, so I don't worry about it.
If I had a burst unmetered...god help me.
It seems the average is indeed low
We don't provide dedicated servers but to a few customers so I can't really say a good average. Although, of the 33 servers we have, we may have 4-5 that go above 50%.
Disk space is another story... Our shared hosting clients don't mind using all of their disk lol
We have about 40% of our shared customers who use little to no disk space and then the other 60% are pushing the cap.