We simply don't charge for traffic a.t.m. since we can't really get any stats, unless it gets crazy in which case we suggest getting bare metal.
I know other people do some traffic stats outside Cloudstack via sflow/openflow (forgot the details), but I'm yet to look at that. Most customers don't really need too high traffic rates; we don't have many but so far I had zero complaints. If some customer wants more it's easy to define a new service offering with the required speed limit and "scale up" his instance. -- 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 13:29:14 > Subject: Re: Network limits and busines usage of those > Hi Lucian, > > I understand that default network throtling rate is 200Mbps - but if > running public cloud - how do you charge customers ? > Give them some average price for 200 Mbps and that's it ? What if a > customer wants 500Mbps - you lock them on 200 Mbps (it is an option of > course, just asking) ? > > Private cloud is fine - but public ones... ? > thx > > On 26 November 2014 at 14:17, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > > -- > > Andrija Panić
