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Can I make my server automatically suspend if it hits the bandwidth limit?

Posted February 16, 2013 16.4k views
I'm concerned about the costs of going over the limit. Is there a way to automatically suspend my server and send me an email if it hits the monthly bandwidth limit?
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fs February 26, 2013
Here is a script i wrote (you need vnstat and bc installed) which turns off your droplet once u hit 999 GB traffic in the current month:

http://pastebin.com/2vXMBaSi
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  • manvir December 23, 2014

    Does the script run in the background automatically or am I going to have to set that up?
    Oh and this thread is old so im wondering is there a bandwidth limiter now?

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  • kamaln7 December 23, 2014

    It looks like @fs’ script only runs once so you will need to configure a cronjob to run it e.g. every hour.

    Run crontab -e as root to edit root’s cronjob list and add the following line at the bottom:

    0 * * * * bash /path/to/script

    and save the file.

    At the moment, we are not billing for bandwidth as there is no way for a user to tell how much bandwidth their droplet has used via the control panel, so you don’t need to worry about it for now :)

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fs February 16, 2013
Install vnstat, monitor its logs and once it hits 900gb on combined transfer make it send you and email.
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moisey February 16, 2013
We're going to be adding alerts in the future after we introduce stats so you'll be able to configure that.
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m.kantzanos February 23, 2013
The solution with vnstat is great (you can install it from epel-repo with yum automatically) and setup cron to send you an email on daily/weekly basis.

Another solution is to setup some monitoring for current network bandwidth and get a notification when you hit some peak (even thought I do not suggest this solution).

You'd better go with vnstat.
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