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Contabo bandwidth overage math doesn't add up

Dedicated Servers by nangwill 6 replies 399 views
#1

Can you help me my ser-va bill is very crazy

Okay I look at my Contabo panel and it say I use 12 TB but my ser-va only have 100 mbit port so very impossible right?? I open ticket they say "95f percentile" but I very confuse. Can you help me is this very normal or very scam??

I attach graph but maybe I read wrong, the scale look very small number. Okay

#2

Actually this is not my circus, not my monkeys but I will help XD

95th percentile billing means they don't measure every byte. They throw away top 5% of peaks, bill you on 95th. So you don't pay for short bursts. Not nothing to worry about usually.

Double check your graph scale though. Sometimes it's not what it looks like.

#3

This is why we need zero-cost abstractions in monitoring stacks. Rewrite it in Rust and you'd have memory-safe bandwidth accounting with no runtime overhead.

Go's garbage collector would drop packets during collection. C++? Use-after-free in your netflow pipeline. Seen it.

#4

Poggers a s3rver thread

nangwill said:
It say I use 12 TB but my ser-va only have 100 mbit port so very impossible right??

Nangwill vibe check: u literally misread the Y-axis bro. If it say 12 thats 12 mbit not 12 TB. The "TB" is total transfer, "mbps" is the 95f percentile line. Bettr luck next time lol

#5

Same confusion at Contabo, I thought TB meant mbit for weeks

436 days. reboot is surrender.
#6

Contabo's graph labels both in TB? That seems like a UI bug.

42U and still growing
#7

Nangwill check the unit, I did the same thing last month

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