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Originally Posted by stev0
Peaks and valleys only matter in 95th percentile billing (which I think is a huge scam to start with). One of my servers years ago was on 95th percentile billing and I could never figure out why my bandwidth use more than tripled after switching to that host. Turns out I wasn't using more, they were just measuring it "differently". Lesson learned, doing paid gallery spots with a 95th percentile billing system doesn't work so good ;)
On average billing it should work out to exactly 320 gigs shouldn't it? Paying for what you use makes sense to me, I don't see what the point of 95th percentile billing is other than for hosts to rip off clients with bandwidth spikes.
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Average billing is not used by anyone, anywhere.
GB's are not based off average billing. Average billing costs more than 95th percentile.
All hosts pay the industry standard, 95th percentile to their backbones. WE pay 95th percentile to our backbones, and in turn you pay the same way too us, not sure how that is ripping you off. We are billed for the 95th percentile amount that you use, and you are billed for the same amount.
The conversion ratio from Mbps to GB is based off the peaks and valleys of usage.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/wiki/H...s_1_Mbps_equal