I believe, as well, that 95th %tile billing is quite dumb, and there are better measurements (gigs, average (which, remember is not 50th %tile)), and there are no measurements at all ($x for y mb/s, whether you use it or not). Then again, VHS beat out BetaMax. -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net -- On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote:
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:28:52 -0400 From: Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>
As an interesting aside to this discussion, Digital Island bills for total traffic transmitted per month (in GB increments). Does anyone using them have any comments on this approach besides the obvious? Does anyone else do a similar deal?
I only care to mention the obvious... this is essentially the same type of billing as average-use total traffic billing. Total traffic in + out, just not divided by number of days in a month. :-)
I can't recall names, but I believe that several colo shops (space + bandwidth, not carrier-neutral, a la Exodus) do this.
IMHO, 95th percentile has its drawbacks. Sure, one can charge more for "peaky" customers than with average-use billing, but that can backfire in extreme cases: Recall when the Starr Report was released... 5% of a month is 1.5 days, so the heavy traffic during that time was simply "above the cutoff".
Eddy
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