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Service Specifics.

What is "Fair-Use" bandwidth?

Almost every hosting provider who shys away from explicit bandwidth caps talks about “fair-use” or “unmetered” bandwidth, and almost none of them explain up front what happens if you dare to use the feature they prominently advertise (until they terminate your account with a non-descript message about “fraud” or something). Here’s how we define it at nulled., up front, in the clear.

Background

We sell virtualized and colocated infrastructure on shared upstream links. We have quite a few - a DIA, bulk transit, peering, etc, but they’re still shared resources. Fair use exists to make sure that one customer pinning 10 Gbps of “Linux ISOs” doesn’t degrade performance for everyone else sharing that uplink.

Measurements

Our fair-use threshold is 50 Mbit/sec of 95th-percentile usage per VPS tier over a 24-hour period. That may sound weird, but it breaks down pretty logically:

  • 95th percentile is the standard way ISPs measure bandwidth. In an analysis of bandwidth, samples would be taken every so often of the current usage, maybe every 1 or 5 minutes. Once you throw out the top 5% (your bursty peaks), and look at what’s left, the highest remaining value is your 95th percentile. This helps insulate you from bursty load, like a momentary download or upload.
  • Per VPS tier scales with your plan. A 1K VPS gets 50 Mbit/sec, a 4K gets 200 Mbit/sec, an 8K gets 400 Mbit/sec, and so on. If you really need more, you can also purchase dedicated bandwidth as an add-on where you can slam your allocation 24/7 without any worries in 100 mbit (32TB a month equivalent) increments.
  • Colocation starts at 400 Mbit/sec by default — equivalent to an 8K VPS, and scales via the same dedicated bandwidth offering.
A bandwidth chart.

In this example, pretty much every spike above 1M would be trimmed via 95th percentile usage.

Hey, 50 mbit sounds low!

50 Mbit/sec sounds modest until you do the math. Sustained 24/7 for a full month, that’s:

  • 50 Mbit/sec ÷ 8 = 6.25 MB/sec
  • 6.25 MB/sec × 86,400 seconds/day = ~540 GB/day
  • 540 GB × 30 days = ~16.2 TB/month

That’s right. You can technically push 16TB a month of bandwidth on a 1K VPS. On the colo starting tier of 400 Mbit/sec, that’s roughly 130 TB/month, which is also quite generous.

So what happens if I’m above the fair-use allocation?

If you’re consistently above 50 Mbit/sec but everyone else on the link is fine, we won’t bother you. If you’re under it, you definitely won’t hear from us. The analysis and conversation only happens when there’s a potential performance impact on neighboring services, and even then it starts as a friendly “hey, what’s going on” rather than a bill or a throttle. Only in cases of extreme contention will we start capping bandwidth (not a full shutdown), and you’ll be notified.

If you know in advance that your workload needs sustained bandwidth — backup ingest, video streaming origin, large data sync, the aforementioned “Linux ISOs”: talk to us about dedicated bandwidth . It comes with no fair-use clause at all, so you can slam it at your purchased rate 24/7.

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