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There are a couple of things that hosting companies do to decide overages. Some use 95th percentile while others use total bandwidth consumption.
For the sake of argument let's round and say that a 10Mbps dedicated conection is 3,000GB per month. So if you have a 10Mpbs plan and average 10GB a day and have a few spikes of 80Mbps for a a few days, then you may go over your allotment.
However the 95th percentile takes into account spikes. The 95th percentile is the smallest number that is greater then 95% of the numbers in a given set, which in this case would be a month. So it measures your sustained throughput in the month, which in essence gives you the average bandwidth consumption throughout the month.
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