tranza

Feel free to flame, BUT ANSWER THE QUESTION!!

Thanks!

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jimb

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing

That explains what 95th Percentile Billing is all about.

Average is just the overall calculated average usage throughout the month.

Hope that helps

Jim

ServerGenius

Average means the price is calculated on the average usage of bandwidth
from the total amount of measurements they've made (usually they take
5 minute interval samples of your traffic)

95 percentile means at the end of the month they order all samples (again
usually 5 minute interval samples) order them from High to Low take of the
highest 5% of samples and calculate your price based on the highest
remaining sample after deducting the previous highest 5%

so if the highest remaining sample is for example 4Mbps than you'll get
charged for 4Mbps

This comes down to roughly 2 hours per day of peak traffic you can safely
burn without getting burned by overcharges. If you have high peaks longer
than that 95% percentile could be bad for you.

Of course this is a rough estimate based on similar traffic patterns over the
each day for the entire month...if you have a few days with longer spikes
but also have a few days with less spikes that could compensate again
for the days you burn more.......you can easily calculate this yourself with
a few lines of code who do the math.

I'm sure you can find such little script by googling a bit.....if you can't and
really want this let me know and I'll whip a quicky up for you......for free
that is of course.....

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ServerGenius

smartass

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jimb

your the best Hans!

Jim