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.
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.
- 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.
- 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