Re: Question about ISP billing procedures

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

As per our village lawyer and accountant ...

    Assuming

        95th percentile billing, sampling every 5 minutes.

    You'll need about 1.5days worth of 0 (~447 samples missing in a 
row) to bork the curve...  and it goes the bith ways.

    If you're 5Gbps committed on a 10Gbps and you burst 10Gbs for 1.6 
days, you pay for 10Gbps for that month.

    And yes that include the best effort to manage DDoS from both 
part.  We're capitalist, but no one is from big pharma =D.

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Alain Hebert                                ahebert () pubnix net
PubNIX Inc.
50 boul. St-Charles
P.O. Box 26770     Beaconsfield, Quebec     H9W 6G7
Tel: 514-990-5911  http://www.pubnix.net    Fax: 514-990-9443

On 2/28/19 12:16 AM, Ben Cannon wrote:
> You have to zero it.
>
> -Ben
>
> On Feb 27, 2019, at 8:10 PM, Michael Gehrmann <mgehrmann () atlassian com 
> <mailto:mgehrmann () atlassian com>> wrote:
>
> > From my provider days if you miss data you can't bill it or assume zero.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 15:06, Steve Meuse <smeuse () mara org 
> > <mailto:smeuse () mara org>> wrote:
> >
> >     I can say that missing samples weren’t back filled when we
> >     billed. Never had any complaints.
> >
> >     -Steve
> >
> >     On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:31 PM Daniel Rohan <drohan () gmail com
> >     <mailto:drohan () gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> >         Can anyone shed light on how ISPs handle missing samples when
> >         calculating p95s for monthly billing cycles? Do they fill
> >         null samples with zeros or leave them as null?
> >
> >         I’m working on a billing sanity tool and want to make sure to
> >         cover my corner cases well.
> >
> >         Thanks!
> >
> >         Dan
> >         -- 
> >         Thanks, Dan