[Box-Admins] Unlimited transfer at hetzner

[Marcus Denker]

On 04.01.2007, at 22:12, Ken Causey wrote:

> Marcus, very interesting and thanks for the clarification.  How do you
> think we should handle this?  If it looks like the site has gotten
> slower (not sure how we will tell necessarily but...) can we email you
> and ask you to check?
>
> Ken
>
> P.S. Is there a way to give someone else (aka me) access to the
> administrative interface?  I don't want to have access to any  
> sensitive
> financial information certainly but if I could check usage levels and
> request bandwidth updates then I could avoid having to bug you.
>

I have no idea how this is handled myself... I don't think we have  an
account yet for that web-interface.

I will check and then report back.

	Marcus

> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:00 +0100, Marcus Denker wrote:
>> On 04.01.2007, at 19:14, Ken Causey wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 13:49 +0100, Marcus Denker wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I only realised some days ago that Hetzner changed the traffic  
>>>> policy
>>>> since a while:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.hetzner.de/rootserver_en.html
>>>>
>>>> Traffic Usage is for free. We will restrict the connection speed to
>>>> 10 MBit/s if 1000 GB/month are exceeded. You can request an
>>>> activation for 250 GB at a time free of charge in your Hetzner
>>>> administration interface.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info Marcus.  I'm not sure I understand this.
>>>
>>> 1.  I'm assuming the default/current connection speed is greater
>>> than 10
>>> MBit/s, 100MBit/s?  I wonder if we are likely to notice a  
>>> performance
>>> difference if we exceed the threshold.
>>>
>>
>> The current hetzner hardware rented for new contracts
>> has 1Gbit networking cards, but I have no idea if we have that  
>> already.
>>
>> The internet connectivity of hetzner is:
>>
>> 10 GBit/s LambdaNet
>> 10 GBit/s Noris Network
>> 2 GBit/s DE-CIX
>> 2 GBit/s Tiscali
>> 1 GBit/s Teleglobe
>> 1 GBit/s Cable & Wireless
>> 1 GBit/s KPN EuroRings
>> 1 GBit/s N-IX
>> -----
>> 28GBit/second for all servers combined.
>>
>>> 2.  What is the meaning of the activation for 250 GB in the second
>>> sentence?  Does this mean the traffic usage is free but we still
>>> have to
>>> watch it and manually request more?  Or does that request more
>>> above the
>>> 1000 GB/Month that triggers the connection speed decrease  
>>> resulting in
>>> the connection speed returning to normal?
>>
>>
>> I think the 250GB then is again full speed. If we do nothing, it's
>> 10Mbit.
>>
>> 	Marcus
>>