Re: [cobalt-users] Bandwidth Settings

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"wserv_discuss" <wserv_discuss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the bandwidth limits table what value should be entered
> in kb/s for 6GB/Month traffic.

There are 60 * 60 * 24 * 28 seconds in the month of February.

There are 1024 * 1024 * 8 kilobits in 1 gigabyte.

So 6 GB / month is equivalent to 6 * 8,388,608 kilobits / 2,419,200 seconds
or 20.81 kb/s.  In months with 30 or 31 days the number will decrease
slightly.

I expect that you're asking because you are allowing 6 GB / month of traffic
for a particular hosting package.  Since no real world hosting customer uses
a constant amount of traffic across every second of every month it's not
really appropriate to limit a customer under this hosting package to 20.81
kb/s since in effect it will be impossible for the customer to come close to
6 GB / month.  You should probably use a separate mechanism for tracking and
accounting for traffic used.  If you want to limit the throughput then you
should probably limit the throughput to a multiple of the sustained
throughput rate that would be needed to max out at 6 GB / month.  If you
already knew that my apologies - I thought someone reading may benefit from
me pointing this out.

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Steve Werby
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