Thx Lucian ! On 26 November 2014 at 14:56, Nux! <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > 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! <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> > >> > To: [email protected] > >> > 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 > -- Andrija Panić
