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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Install vnstat, monitor its logs and once it hits 900gb on combined transfer make it send you and email.
We’re going to be adding alerts in the future after we introduce stats so you’ll be able to configure that.
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. <br> <br>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). <br> <br>You’d better go with vnstat.
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