Thank you for the responses. I was planning to bill/setup a limit for
bandwidth per customer. However, the way I have it now, I have one ip
address and am using virtual hosts on surgemail. I guess I did not
really think about how to account for mail traffic. I could see not
really worrying about it, but what if you have a customer getting and
sending tons of messages. I was planning to offer 10 free email
accounts and then charge a fee for everyone above that. I am still at
a low number of customers so nothing is a problem yet, but just trying
to think ahead.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:21 PM, David Camm HIDDEN@advwebsys.com> wrote:
> the real question, imho, is what you want to measure. and what you want to
> bill for.
>
> when someone sends a message to one of your customers, that message is x
> bytes. when your customer sends a message to an external server, that's y
> bytes.
>
> if your customer uses pop to download messages to a client, he (she)
> downloads n bytes in that download.
>
> if they use surgeweb, they transfer z bytes during a session, which of
> course, includes the web pages.
>
> if they use imap at all, then disk utilization may be a billable resource -
> i had one customer who accumulated over 5G of messages and never realized
> they needed to prune things once in a while. i wonder how long it took to
> load their inbox....
>
> bytes of thruput can be converted to bandwidth - i BELIEVE 221Gb of transfer
> in one month is equivalent to 1Mb/sec.
>
> i frankly don't know where or whether this info is available in the myriad
> of logs. but, if it is, it is certainly possible to extract it with some
> neat grepping and perl scripting.
>
> we do this on our shared web servers for customers with heavy ftp traffic..
> on the first of the month, we look at the ftp transfer logs for the previous
> month and accumulate transferred bytes (in and out) by user. we can then
> bill based on total transfer. we even keep history in a little mysql
> database.
>
> david camm
> advanced web systems
> keller, tx
>
>
> On 3/8/2011 5:00 PM, VinnyHIDDEN@@Dell.com wrote:
>>
>> I don't, but if you had each domain on a different IP address, you could
>> easily turn on ip accounting on a Cisco device and measure it via SNMP.... or
>> just via the Cisco CLI.
>>
>> -Vinny
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony Zakula [mailtoHIDDEN@kula@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 3:57 PM
>> To: surgemailHIDDEN@etwinsite.com
>> Subject: [SurgeMail List] Bandwidth Accounting
>>
>> Does anyone do bandwidth accounting for their email services?
>> Especially if you are running lots of domains on one mail server and web
>> services on other servers? If so, what do you use to measure per customer?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tony Z
>>
>>
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