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Originally posted by Lenny2
I disagree with the post that webair made earlier.
I've read those exact same words several times before on the faq page of companies who bill using the 95th percentile model.
Its written specifically to sell the customer on the 95th percentile model and I don't feel its very fair in its assesment of the different billing models.
There are tons of per gig hosts that don't charge for inbound and outbound traffic, only outbound. And you can be billed on average without having a capped line.
The host I'm with actually has prices for all 3 models on their site, you can pick what you want...per gig, on average, or 95th percentile.
Average most definitely works best for me, I don't see how you can go wrong paying for exactly what you use.
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I agree with you here. ISP's are often trying to kiss you up for
only charging for outgoing (asymetric) traffic. In fact most of them
only pay for asymetric to their carrier aswell......OR they sell their
symetric traffic to other companies.
Hosting companies hardly have incoming traffic. Incoming traffic
just consists out of maintenance traffic and of course all the
requests from users to the servers but requests are only VERY
small packets. Just look at your MRTG stats and you will see
you have very little incoming traffic, upload a big file and you will
see it going up shortly.
When I was still in the ISP business we sold all incoming traffic
to a company that provided satelite internet links and to dialup/
DSL/cable guys. Most ISP's will have similar deals. They won't
just give it away and they certainly won't let it go to waste.
DynaMite
