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Thanks for the suggestion! The problem with self-imposed quotas comes up when provider and customer disagrees on the charges. Provider may simply disagree with

Thanks for the suggestion! The problem with self-imposed quotas comes up when provider and customer disagrees on the charges. Provider may simply disagree with you and insist that you did in fact used "X" amount more of bandwidth. This "X" can be small, or astronomical, it all depends on how trustworthy the provider is, or how good your skills of setting up the quotas are (in case of own mistakes.) Now, given that the provider already tries to pull shady stuff on me -- how much trust should I have in case of a dispute?.. I'd rather prefer to avoid the whole possibility of such dispute, frankly.

LinuxBender 4y ago
I should have stayed logged into Vultr. I believe they like all the others have bandwidth charts that show usage per VM and per account. Not all of them pool the allotted bandwidth. The same systems that build those graphs are the ones controlling bw over-usage. Their graphs should line up with network interface statistics and iptables counters minus their internal management traffic. In my opinion if they are doing something shady with the bandwidth graphs that should be brought to the attention of the internet ASAP and I would expect their behavior to improve unless their goal is to file chapter 11. This should apply to all VPS providers. Have you seen evidence of Vultr or any other VPS providers fudging the bandwidth graphs? If you suspect this is happening the easiest thing to do is create a daily cron job that grabs all the interface statistics and iptables counters to a text file daily and then rsync those to a centralized system. Or if you prefer having your own graphs some people use Munin [1] or any of the alternative options [2]. [1] - https://munin-monitoring.org/ https://munin-monitoring.org/ [2] - https://alternativeto.net/software/munin/ https://alternativeto.net/software/munin/

LinuxBender 4y ago

I should have stayed logged into Vultr. I believe they like all the others have bandwidth charts that show usage per VM and per account. Not all of them pool the allotted bandwidth. The same systems that build those graphs are the ones controlling bw over-usage. Their graphs should line up with network interface statistics and iptables counters minus their internal management traffic. In my opinion if they are doing something shady with the bandwidth graphs that should be brought to the attention of the internet ASAP and I would expect their behavior to improve unless their goal is to file chapter 11. This should apply to all VPS providers. Have you seen evidence of Vultr or any other VPS providers fudging the bandwidth graphs? If you suspect this is happening the easiest thing to do is create a daily cron job that grabs all the interface statistics and iptables counters to a text file daily and then rsync those to a centralized system. Or if you prefer having your own graphs some people use Munin [1] or any of the alternative options [2]. [1] - https://munin-monitoring.org/ https://munin-monitoring.org/ [2] - https://alternativeto.net/software/munin/ https://alternativeto.net/software/munin/