Thoughts about a nice to have Bandiwdth feature.

[valor]

Hi,

I have multiple friends website which are managed by themselves.
So I'm always worry about a week long peak on bandwidth will make my montly cost higher.

Then I thought it would be nice to have an alert each night by e-mail if your bandwidth usage for that day is more than your total allowed bandwidth / 30.
Or better: if your bandwidth usage for that day is more than your free bandwidth / rest_of_days_in_current_month.

First one in pseudocode:
sendalert if ( today_usage > monthly_allowed / 30);

Second one in pseudocode:
sendalert if ( today_usage > free_bandwidth / (30 - current_day_num) );

Anyone else would see this as nice to have?

Regards,

valor

[SpaceAdmiral]

I *wish* I had that concern. I typically use only about 3GB/60GB on my VPS per month. . . I would love to have the traffic you have!

Sorry, this post is pretty pointless.

[valor]

Yeah, as you I don't use NEVER even half of my bandwidth.
My last month usage was 14GB aprox.

What I'm worry about is an unusual situation, but if happen, could be a expensive one.

I'll give you an easy example, let's suppouse the following scenario...

John Doe recorded in an afterhour party a minimal techno session of a dj like Richie Hawtin in a Deutschland house. The recorded session last 2 hours and is with very good quality (256K). Therefore the file is near 200MB of size.

Well.. now John decided to upload the file to one of your hosted websites without your knowledgment and give the link to a few friends. Suddenly one of this friends of John Doe decided to post the link in a forum of Richie Hawtin fans.
What happen then?

Well... three hundred people decided to download the session from your website.
Also, at least one hundred of those three hundred pass the link by e-mail to a friend. Therefore you have 400 requests to download the session in a 72 hs period.

That is: 400 persons * 200 MB = 80000 MB = 78GB.

Do you see what I'm worry about?.

If some kind of alert is implemented, I will know after the first 24 hs that this is going on and I'll be able to handle the problem BEFORE my bandwidth is over.

This is what I'm really worry about, this kind of special situations which in a few days could eat all your bandwidth without your knowledgment.

And because current control panel already have the values required to do the alerts, I thought besides usefull it woule be not hard to implement it.

Do you see my point now? :)