Summary of issues related to Vultr merchant traffic - traffic calculation standards/how to purchase traffic packages/what to do if traffic exceeds

If we are accustomed to using domestic ECS, we usually use servers with fixed bandwidth and unlimited traffic. However, if the option is like the VULTR service provider with 1Gbps bandwidth and limited traffic, you must consider the traffic problem. But for most ordinary users, the 500GB or 1TB monthly traffic given by default must be enough. What if we don't use enough?

In this article, Lao Zuo is going to sort out issues related to Vultr merchant traffic in detail, which may also be something that some netizens want to know.

1. Flow calculation standard

We may have some netizens know about the calculation standard of traffic. We must have heard about one-way traffic or two-way traffic. Similar to the incoming and outgoing flow, if it is two-way flow, it is calculated for incoming and outgoing flow. For example, if our server has 1TB of traffic and 500GB of incoming and outgoing traffic, it will be 1TB of traffic in total, and you will run out of traffic in the month.

However, the VULTR service provider uses one-way traffic, which is calculated based on the maximum incoming traffic. For example, the inbound bandwidth is 200GB and the outbound bandwidth is 400GB. It is calculated based on 400GB bandwidth, not twice.

2. Fixed standard of flow

We can see that different VULTR schemes have different hardware configurations, including traffic. This is the monthly flow, which will be used up this month and still be used up next month, but cannot be accumulated to the next month. If you use up this month's traffic, The server will not pause 。 Instead, the traffic will be calculated separately. The specific cost is standardized and will be recorded below.

3. Flow calculation rate

What if the traffic exceeds? The traffic of VULTR merchants is calculated by region, and the prices are different in different regions. As we mentioned above, no scheme has a fixed monthly flow. If you use up, you need to calculate the rate separately. For example, in North America and Western Europe, the bandwidth utilization rate exceeding the instance allocation is charged at $0.01 per GB. Due to the high regional cost, the overrun price in Singapore and Tokyo (Japan) is US $0.025 per GB, and the overrun price in Sydney (Australia) and Seoul (South Korea) is US $0.05 per GB.

4. Separate purchase of traffic package

At present, the VULTR server does not support purchasing traffic packages separately. We can refer to《 How to upgrade the hardware if the Vultr server is not configured enough (Vultr one click upgrade configuration method) 》You can only upgrade all packages and then upgrade packages with multiple traffic. If a separate traffic package is purchased in the future, it should be good for projects that need multiple traffic.

5. Hourly billing traffic mode

We all know that VULTR merchants can delete machines and reopen them at any time. However, if we delete it at any time, it will be charged according to the average cost of the time used. If the moon is full, it will be charged monthly. Many netizens are opportunistic. They think that I will use a month's traffic in a few hours, and then delete and re open it to speculate on his traffic.

Can you really do that? It must not work. A month will average the traffic of each hour. If we use the total hours and total traffic, there will be an additional calculation of the excess. So you should not speculate. They are all good.

Thus, the above five points are common questions about VULTR traffic. Did we?