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Originally Posted by TidalWave
What you are paying for is capacity, not the transfer amount. In order to have fast speeds, you need constantly availability unlimited capacity, thats what 95th percentile is billing for.
The amount of transfer you can do per amount of capacity (1Mbps) varies by each customer/server/website so is not a good way to plan network usage on the whole. You plan by the available capacity which is needed, and you bill that way too.
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Originally Posted by rowan
Looking at it really really simply, if your "spike" covers more than 5% of the month (more than about 36 hours - doesn't need to be in sequence either) then you'll be billed at the "spike rate" rather than your lower average rate.
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and this is why i think the 95% percentile is a scam.
