RE: [cobalt-users] [raq4] incoming bandwidth monitor for site level usage. still no progress.

["Todd Kirk" <tkirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Kai,
> I am in AU with the same problem, I have installed MRTG and this tool
> http://bjorn.swift.st/traffic/ and together they give me a 
> rough idea of
> incoming and outgoing traffic - not perfect, but at least I 
> know what ball
> park I am in.
> 
> You can get a pretty nice RAQ .pkg for MRTG at
> http://vito.pointclark.net/security/mrtg.html
> 
> Tom
> => It's been a few months so I thought maybe someone might know. In
> => Australia
> => here, I get charged for incoming bandwidth only. This means that
> => I only pay
> => for what the server downloads... so people FTP uploading, 
> ircd incoming
> => traffic etc. I need some software so that I can look at 
> statistics on how
> => much incoming data my server is using, and totals for sites too.
> => So I know
> => exactly which account to bill for the excess data I pay for. I
> => can't simply
> => say to someone... "Okay you're being billed this much" 
> without any proof.
> => This is my dilema. I know of one other hosting company on this
> => list who is
> => looking for the same software.
> =>
> => Anyone know of any? We are talking about INCOMING...IE: People
> => UPLOADING TO
> => the server... not people DOWNLOADING FROM the server. Yes...
> => Backwards from
> => the US hosting companies.
> =>
> => Thanks in advance.
> =>
> => Kai.

Also in AU, the best we could do was as above with MRTG and PHP script.
Only thing to note there is that you can only get an incoming amount per
IP address. This is the best we could do without purchasing expensive
hardware.

So we put clients on their own IP for a couple of months...track their
usage and then bundle all the low usage sites onto one IP. Regular
bandwidth offenders get their own IP. Customers with multiple sites get
one IP for all and we deduct their monthly bandwidth allowance from the
total usage (ie. 2xsites = 200Mb incoming, additional bandwidth charges
= total usage - monthly allowed bandwidth for no. of sites customer
has).


 
regards,
 
Todd Kirk