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Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDER
Without trying to sound like a dick, it's not the hosting company's job to be your parents.
You should have the bandwidth capped off if you're concerned about overages.
DH
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I check the graphs of all my children every day
...even the big shooters that don't mind overages!
Seriously, though... the reality for us is that we make our best effort very frequently and in the rare instances where I miss catching it in time enough to not affect their 95th percentile we often end up eating it if the overage is due to some malfeasance of the webmaster like putting videos in an unprotected area or some other type of abnormality or learning curve.
Really, I usually chalk most of these instances up to learning curve. Everyone makes mistakes and small to medium sized webmasters... or those experiencing new growth or trying new marketing really need a safety net in my opinion. Done right, the host can be that for most.
All of our servers now have gigabit connections. The reality is that most would need the server configurationt tweaked to get above 100 megabit or some type of upgraded configuration. But it is nice and we like removing bottlenecks so there are none on our network.
Brad