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Originally posted by PerfectionGirls
I can have $1000 a month swings in my bw, just based on one or two heavy traffic days. Its bs if you ask me. Is there anyone that offers consistant pricing? Let s say I use 300gigs of transfer a month. I give this number to a host for a quote. He coems back with $400.00 a month for that much usage. Is there anyone out there that can offer flat pricing?
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Look at it this way, 95th percentile ensures that the company you are hosted with has the resources to handle those spikes. So if you want to push 1Mbps for 90% of the month but peak with 10Mbps for two days, and you dont want to get billed for those small peaks why dont you ask them for a cap and watch your server slow to a crawl during those peaks, probably also the periods when you make the most cash.
But if you dont make the most cash during those peaks, then get the cap and stabilize your bill. Also dont forget that the 10Mbps peaks you run end up costing your hosting company money with their providers so it isn't B.S. its another cost for them. Or just go on a purely per gig plan.