MV Co-Location Bandwidth

Co-Location Bandwidth

Our base co-location rates include a generous Internet bandwidth allowance; most small-to-medium business sites use far less than this allowance. But what if you have an Internet-intensive site that needs more than the basic allotment?

We monitor the bandwidth used over your ethernet port by sampling the byte counters on that port once every 5 minutes. This gives us an accurate and up-to-date picture of the bandwidth you use hourly, daily, and monthly. If, at the end of the month, your average usage is more than the basic co-location allotment, we will assess a charge for that excess. Our assessment is based on either your input usage or your output usage, whichever is greater.

Bandwidth above the basic allocation will be charged at $500/Mbps/month, measured on average usage over the calendar month. Note that this is about $21 per 64Kbps average use, or about $1.65 per billion bytes delivered, and only applies to usage in excess of the base allocation.

If you do expect to use significantly more than the base bandwidth allocation, we ask that you provide us with reasonable forecasts and a retainer against that forecast. If your daily average usage exceeds your forecasted amount, we reserve the right to rate-limit your usage. Note that this agreement with other customers protects your availability of bandwidth, as your agreement protects theirs.

 

Average vs Percentile billing

Our bandwidth rates are based on simple arithmetic averages. You may be comparing these rates to co-location vendors who charge based on a percentile rating, typically a 95th percentile. The percentile rating takes all of the usage samples over a month, discards the top 5 percent (in the case of 95th percentile), and charges you according to the highest remaining usage. Under this scheme, you are charged for something that is near your peak usage. This is a perfectly valid method, and there are many reasons for charging this way (in fact we may add this as an option in the future). But bear in mind that a 95th percentile method will assign you a much higher ranking than a straight average method, and thus the rates quoted for the 95th percentile method should be significantly lower than for the arithmetic average method.

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