24 Feb
2022
24 Feb
'22
12:55 p.m.
Andy Smith said:
I am interested in what other customers think. Though as most people
never get anywhere near their data transfer quota, before responding
please do try to put yourselves in the position of someone who has
just received the automated email that says they've gone over quota
and every GB transferred is now costing them £0.06+VAT. Does the
current facility of the panel web page, Grafana site and emailed
notifications cut it then?
My 2p worth. I've never gone over (or got very near) the quota, so it's
not something I've thought too hard about.
For my own use, I think your emailed warnings are fine. They arrive on
my phone and I look at them in fairly short order. A pushover alert
would also arrive on my phone and get looked at. But I do "get" that
others might like to receive alerts via other methods.
Since Bitfolk are the ones who'd charge me if I went over, I think it's
not unreasonable to expect to be able to use your figures rather than
trying to handball my own and ensure they match. Getting a ballpark
figure isn't hard and I'd do that if I cared enough, but it's only ever
going to be an estimate of what you'd charge.
On a wider note, I wonder whether configurable throttling would be
handy. If someone does something that hammers my VPS, it'd be a comfort
to know that, at the point you're (imminently) going to start charging
me per GByte, I can have my bandwidth throttled down to limit how
quickly that charge goes up. This is a WIBNI
(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WIBNI), nothing more. For all that lazy
me knows, you may already have this available!
Cheers,
Alun.