Average Usage Billing – (Sure beats 95th%)
LamBay.net offers fair and
flexible bandwidth billing!
Most datacenters and hosting
providers use the dreaded “95th
Percentile” billing method.
LamBay.net utilizes Average Usage
Billing. Throughout the month,
LamBay.net takes measurements of
your bandwidth usage every 5
minutes. At the end of the monthly
cycle, these measurements are added
together and we divide this number
by the number of measurements taken.
Measuring of bandwidth in this
manner results in a true “average”
usage reading for your bandwidth
bill.
Using this method allows LamBay.net customers to take advantage of the natural peaks and valleys that occur from day to day bandwidth usage. LamBay.net’s bandwidth billing policy is designed to encourage our customer to grow their businesses and push the envelope with their hosting environments! We understand that when you succeed, we succeed! The two go hand in hand! Here is an example:
This customer has spikes of bandwidth usage on a daily basis over 2.5Mbps! This graph was pulled directly from their online account manager. To calculate their bandwidth bill, our accounting teams use the following information:
- Average In = 960.683kbps
- Average Out = 37.369kbps
- Total Usage = 998.052kbps
This is less than 1Mbps! Other providers using 95th Percentile billing would have charged this customer for 2.5Mbps! More than double – Ouch!
