Andrija, Because indeed bw stats are hard to interpret (or missing altogether, like in the case of Basic zones and Adv zones + SG) we just don't bother with it. We leave traffic shaping in place per service offering (default is 200 Mbps) and don't care too much, unless we notice an abusive behaviour.
In the future I'd like to have some stats.. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrija Panic" <andrija.pa...@gmail.com> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, 26 November, 2014 13:05:11 > Subject: Network limits and busines usage of those > Hi folks, > > I was wondering what is your way/experience with billing customers the > bandwith. > > Example - since network usage stats are almoust imposible to extract (let > me know if I'm wrong...) do you i.e. > - offer clients different flat rates i.e. 100 Mb/s, 200 Mb/s, 500 Mb/s, > - or maybe just have i.e. 1G link, with only i.e. 200Mb/s networrk > offering etc. > > In general I'm inerested to know what are best practices for business in > some sense - what and how do you ofer to your clients, what are the methods > for charging bandwith... > > And again I understand that some business user may not be willing to share > their model/know how, but again I would really appriciate any info on > this... > > thanks. > -- > > Andrija Panić