[olug] Community Colo Project

[Ryan Stille]

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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