Limiting Bandwidth etc

Limit bandwidth

[shearder]

Hi All

I hope someone can give me some "well needed" advice.

I am busy with a small and simple hosting service but there are mainly two issues i would like to get help on. How do i set a quota in IIS for someone who only buys 5MB, for example, web space and ensure they do not go over that.

Also, these people that buy small amounts of space, how do you limit their monthly bandwidth automatically?

Thanks in advance!

[markis00]

Good question. I don't know, but I'll bump your post for you so it gets answered faster by a smart person ;)

[shearder]

Thanks a stack Markis!

Much appreciated.

[pendanticist]

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[Nova Reticulis]

Personally I suspect doing something like this would be a major PITA on Windows. Under *nix you would want a filesystem that supports quotas, a quota-aware FTP daemon, shell set up, and a cron running around reminding those who approarch the quota that they need to cut it out.

Limiting *bandwidth* and *throughput* is an entirely different issue altogether because it requires IP accounting and QoS on the web server and/or at the router level.

[plumsauce]

The truth is that from Windows 2000 Server and up,
the servers have HARD or SOFT quota limits available.
These can be applied at a user or group level.

There is no question of running a cron job to
send out reminders. If they ftp in, the upload
will just fail due to lack of space when quota
is exceeded.

The administrivia of setting up individual users
is no more trouble than in *nix.

So, on this one, Win2K comes out ahead. :)

[shearder]

Great. Thanks for the replies. So i could just create groups according to my hosting offers and depending on what a user wants, place him in a particular group which has whichever quota is applicable? or create him a "home drive" with a set quota when creating a user name and make this folder FTP"able"?

[plumsauce]

Basically yes. See the help file under quota.
The limiting element is that as long as upload
access is via a controlled account, the quota
will be respected. Thus, ftp under specific
accounts will act as a disk quota limiter
for that user.