[olug] Community Colo Project

[Dan Clough]

Yes, we'll have Cacti running to monitor all traffic on all ports.  And
I agree with the QoS and bandwidth shaping idea, priority should be
given to SSH and HTTP traffic.  Anything else has equal weight.

We'll get an official TOS/AUP written up as soon as we start accepting
machines, if not sooner.

Ryan Stille wrote:
> I assume you'll want some kind of bandwidth shaper on there, so no one's
> site gets killed when someone else is doing remote backups or
> whatever?   And having the ability to prioritize traffic would be
> important, too.  That way you can still get on and get a shell no matter
> whats going on with bandwidth.
> 
> I believe pfSense can do all this.  MRTG can be used to track how much
> bandwidth everyone uses, not necessarily for billing but to see if
> someone is consistently using more traffic than everyone else.
> 
> Without having well defined bandwidth rules up front, I could see a lot
> of people getting unhappy quickly.
> 
> -Ryan
> 
> Dan Clough wrote:
>> For the sake of simplicity the pricing will be limited to dollars per
>> U and bandwidth will be shared, unti we can get something like WHMCS
>> where we can actually track, calculate and bill for bandwidth
>> accurately and automatically.
>>
>> ...Anyone wanna donate a WHMCS license?  ;)
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com>
>>
>> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:58:06 To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Community Colo Project
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Hey, 10Mbps is a lot of bandwidth when it comes to 'net usage!
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Depends on what people use the colo for.
>>
>> If someone sets up a an audio or video stream, say bye bye to 10mps :).
>>
>> If someone uses the box for an off site backup, during activity time...
>> that'll get trounced, etc etc etc
>>
>> While there are several advantages to having a dedicated box available on
>> the 'net, when you add bandwidth limitations to them, the typical
>> goodness
>> becomes... useless.
>>
>> I'd be interested to see an estimated price per U / bandwidth
>> breakdown as
>> well :)
>>
>> -Will
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