so, we hit a wall this week with lopsided providers. we hit an approximate 20:1 and choked. with some policy routing we took it to about a 14:1 ratio and got things buffered. this is upstream, i still am comfortable with 12-15:1 on the ap/cpe side.
At what ratio do you decide to buy more provider bandwidth? rule of thumb, because we are all different. With our size, we could probably still afford a 1:1 on the upstream, but we would be wasting a shit ton of cash. Powercode sucks ass for reporting, so its a manual process to see what your ratio is, even though they could pop out report very easily, and I assume query guys already are because Powercode makes it too hard. I am concerned with my personal accountability on this however. Im normally pretty anal about monitoring for points of failure, and I completely dropped the ball on this, relegating some customer complaints to the "quit whining you little bitch" bin, assuming it wa a customer end issue when I should have realized we had sold too much and put it out the small pipe. Any advice (aside from maintaining a 1:1) for metrics to monitor that indicate you oversubscribe? -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
