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Profane Obituary!
May 19, 2009

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FISHMANPET posted:

What's this 95% percentile stuff you guys are talking about? Also, what's the point of selling a 10 mbit connection on a 100 mbit link? I don't know anything about hosting.

Basically every X number of minutes (normally 5) they check to see how much bandwidth your using. They save all this data, then at the end of the month they basically throw away the top 5% of your bandwith check numbers. (which as Elected by Dogs says, is about 36 hours worth of data a month). This let's you pay a lower rate for your "normal" traffic of say 10mbit, but when you get a big influx of users from an article appearing on slashdot or something, you have the capability to go all the way up to 100mbit (but if you go above 10mbit for more then ~36 hours in that month, they'll charge you extra).

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Profane Obituary!
May 19, 2009

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I like RapidXen

Profane Obituary!
May 19, 2009

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If your filesystem supports it you could use acl's to give access to your www user

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