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 Post subject: Reselling
PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 5:49 pm 
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Love Linode... but they don't seem geared at all towards resellers. The problem we're hitting is that the bandwidth limit is counted PER ACCOUNT, and not per Linode. That means if client A gets a lot of traffic, client B's server could go down. Anyone working around this somehow?


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 Post subject: Re: Reselling
PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:28 pm 
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fireproofsocks wrote:
The problem we're hitting is that the bandwidth limit is counted PER ACCOUNT, and not per Linode.

Your bandwidth limit is the total of all your Linodes combined (eg, a 1GB & 4GB plan have a total of 10TB of bandwidth).

The smallest Linode has a bandwidth allotment of 2TB, which is a lot of bandwidth. If you're reselling and one of your clients is exceeding the bandwidth for your Linode then you can:
- move them to their own Linode (and charge them accordingly).
- increase the size of your current Linode.


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 Post subject: Re: Reselling
PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:34 pm 
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I'd like to clarify a few things:

1) You guys appear to be discussing transfer. Bandwidth (how fast you can send data) is a per-Linode statistic. Inbound bandwidth has no cap, and outbound is capped per-Linode at 250 megabits per second.

2) Your overall transfer quota (how much data you can send) is pooled between all Linodes on your account, applies only to outbound transfer, and is a soft cap. If you exceed the overall pool in a month, we bill you once the month is over at a rate of $0.10 per GB. So you'll never have servers go down, be ratelimited, or otherwise have their networking impacted because you exceeded your monthly quota. As such, the pooling can potentially help you (if one Linode on your account goes over its quota but another doesn't, they even out and you pay no overages), but it can't hurt your Linodes' availability.

- Les


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 Post subject: Re: Reselling
PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:40 pm 
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Ah... somehow I read that wrong and the email to support confused me further. So the pool keeps getting larger the more Linodes we add -- that's viable. Thanks!


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