Author: Roger Light Date: To: Andy Smith CC: users Subject: Re: [bitfolk] predicted network usage / "Predicted to exceed
transfer quota"
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 20:51, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> - The rare times that people do go over their quota they tend to
> focus on BitFolk's measurements of this instead of looking into
> the behaviour of their own VM. I feel like anything I implement is
> just going to be a further distraction from the customer's own
> responsibilities.
This matches my experience. I pay reasonable attention to the quota
emails but don't do any monitoring myself because I don't expect to be
at any risk of going over the quota. From a customer perspective
though, I expect the measurements made by bitfolk to be the gold
standard in terms of billing so my measurements would ultimately be
secondary.
I did have a small amount of overage, back when the outgoing bandwidth
limit was 400GB. The timeline of emails looked like this:
23 March 1/4 usage email - used 94GB, projected 375GB (I doubt I noticed this)
27 March Predicted to exceed email - used 206GB, projected 552GB
29 March Overage email - used 401GB
30 March 2/4 usage email - used 407GB, projected 812GB
7 April 3/4 usage email - used 411GB, projected 548GB
14 April 4/4 usage email - used 415GB
I got a potential projected 412GB overage down to 15GB overage based
on those emails, so I was happy. It might be that email isn't the best
medium for everybody though. I can't remember whether I made much use
of the (as then) cacti graphs, I think the numbers in the emails were
the key factors.
