Thread: hosting Companys, Explain Bandwidth Billing Models to me
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Old 09-09-2009, 12:26 PM  
jcsike
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Originally Posted by TidalWave View Post
95th percentile is how the hosting companies are billed by the backbones. 95th percentile = Per Mbps billing. Volume Billing = Per GB transferred billing.

They both have their advantages and disadvantages.
Mainstream moved towards Per GB because a lot of the clients coming from shared hosting packages knew bandwidth by GB transferred and not by per mbps.
i see, thanks for the explanation
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