This thread sent me down a rabbit hole. Contabo's terms have something about "unmetered" for the 10Gbit port, and I think there's a fair use clause around 10TB. Their VDS plans say "unmetered" and mean it, but capped at 400Mbit. Different words, different products, same marketing.
I made a spreadsheet. I'm not proud.
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You should be proud. Spreadsheets are how I make sense of hosting. I track cost per TB, actual throughput, support response time. Contabo wins on cost, loses on clarity. Hetzner wins on clarity, loses on cost for storage-heavy workloads.
Nobody wins everything.
Late to this but what about darkstat? Passive capture, web interface, no database setup. I ran it on a WRT54G back in the day. Still works on modern OpenWrt.
Or is everyone too cool for libpcap-based tools now?
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Memory hungry for high traffic. Fine for a home router, terrible for a 10Gbit box. I tried it on a busy CS server, ate 2GB RAM in a day.
vnstat uses kernel counters, near-zero overhead. There's a reason it survived and darkstat didn't.
Sorry if this was covered but does Contabo let you buy more bandwidth mid-month or do you have to upgrade the whole plan? I read the thread twice and couldn't find it.
Also what is vnstat? Is it free?
