Unbilled storage: https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/peteradolfsson/sites/bkg405h bkg405h Site Information Site Names & Aliases bkg405h.nfshost.com SSH/SFTP Information Username Password SSH/SFTP Access SSH/SFTP Hostname FTP Access Log File Options Access Log: Error Log: Rewrite Log: Automatic Rotation: Config Information Canonical URL https://bkg405h.nfshost.com/ HTTPS Redirection Server Type PHP Version Software Realm Realm Updates Server Admin IP Access Control Beta Status Cluster Code Apache Site Root Apache Document Root Per-Alias Document Root Email Sending Billing Information Status Normal Account xxxx-xxxxxxxx Plan Non-Production Site ($0.01/day) Storage Class Standard [SSD] ($1.00/GB/Month) Created 2020-03-14 12:15:03 UTC Current Transfers 20,24 MiB Total Transfers 24,76 GiB Unbilled Storage 206.296.989 byte-days ($0,0062) 0,0062 $ / 206296989 byte / 1 day ≈ 3,005375904928986e-11 dollar per byte per day 3,005375904928986e-11 dollar per byte per day 0,003005375904929 dollar per 100 megabyte per day 0,0300537590492899 dollar per 1 gigabyte per day 0,0300537590492899 . 31 ≈ 0,9316665305279869 dollar per 1 gigabyte per month or ≈ $1,00/GB/month Total Storage 147,25 MiB (8 hours ago) (About $0,14/month) 0,14 $ / 154,434273 MB ≈ 9,065345229423264e-4 dollar per MByte 9,065345229423264e-4 dollar per MByte 0,9065345229423264 dollar per GByte 154,434273 / 30 ≈ 5,1478091 MB / dag Last Backup 2 hours ago Unbilled Resources 7.736 RAUs Total Resources 276.027 RAUs Total Storage 147.26 MiB (118 minutes ago) (About $0.14/month) bkg405h Site Charge $-0.01 bkg405h Site Storage Charge $-0.01 Unbilled Storage 14 711 777 byte-days ($0,0004) Unbilled Storage 93 917 643 byte-days ($0,0028) Unbilled Storage 330 985 271 byte-days ($0,0099) ~334 328 556,6 byte / day / cent ~3 343 285,6 byte / day / 0,01 cent ~334 328 556,6 / 31 ≈ 10 784 792 byte / day The total storage 154,434273 / one month 31 ≈ 4 982 000 byte / day 1 GB = 1 073 741 824 byte The total storage is 147,25 MiB (154 MB) and about $0,14 per month is ok. WinSCP.net ---> Properties ---> File Information: In the upper part of the dialog you can see information about the selected file(s). The counter will initially not include files and directories in subdirectories. Press Calculate button to count even these. The Size field will state “Unknown”, if the selection contains at least one directory. Press Calculate button next to it to calculate the total size of all files in the selected directories (symbolic links are not followed). 184 MB (193 456 061 B) 2023-01-26. But I have only 154 MB!!! How can I have 334 MB??? Maybe the answer is as follows: 154 / 334 ≈ 0,46. Is not the answer. I do not know... I give up! If you use exactly one megabyte, you'll be charged for one penny after 31 days. Source: jdw ? If you use exactly 0,5 megabyte, you'll be charged for one penny after 62 days ? ? If you use 0,46 (154 megabyte), you'll be charged for one penny after 6x days ? FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Policy What if my site uses less than $0.01 of bandwidth in a month? The same thing that happens if your site uses less than $0.01 in a day, in a week, or in a year: it keeps going until it does. We aren't really interested in months. The amount of bandwidth you use is carried over as long as it takes until you accumulate a penny's worth of usage, even if that takes a month or more. Yes, we are happy to host sites like this. This is ok: Unbilled storage: 206.296.989 byte-days ($0,0062) 0,0300537590492899 . 31 ≈ 0,9316665305279869 dollar per gigabyte per month or ≈ $1,00/GB/month Total storage: 147,25 MiB (8 hours ago) (About $0,14/month) 0,9065345229423264 dollar per GByte or ≈ $1,00/GB/month Year 2003: "Storage is billed at the $0.01/MB/month rate --- For the purposes of our system, we pretend all months have 31 days. This is good for you, because you end up paying less in shorter months. --- Thus, one megabyte-month is equal to 31 megabyte-days: 1 megabyte-month x (31 days / 1 month) = 31 megabyte-days". Source: jdw Storage Class Standard [xxx] ($0,01/MB/month) Storage Class Standard [xxx] ($0,1/10MB/month) Storage Class Standard [xxx] ($1/100MB/month) Storage Class Standard [xxx] ($10/GB/month) Year 2023: Storage Class Standard [SSD] ($1,00/GB/Month) ? Thus, one gigabyte-month is equal to 31 gigabyte-days: 1 gigabyte-month x (31 days / 1 month) = 31 gigabyte-days ? https://www.immihelp.com/usa-currency-coins/ Penny is worth 1 cent. Nickel is worth 5 cent. Dime is worth 10 cent. Quarter is worth 25 cent. Half dollar is worth 50 cent. Golden dollar is worth 1 dollar. One dollar equals 100 cents. https://www.intostudy.com/en/study-abroad/country-guides/us/currency-banking#:~:text=One%20dollar%20equals%20100%20cents. https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/faq?keywords=Unbilled+Storage+&submit=Search+for+Keywords&form=1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS How exactly are storage charges calculated? Storage is billed in terms of megabyte-days. A megabyte-day represents the use of one megabyte of space for a one day period. This means using 31 megabytes for one day is the same as using one megabyte for 31 days. The "Unbilled Storage" numbers displayed on the Account, Site, and MySQL panels are in byte-days. 31 megabyte-days is equal to 32,505,856 byte-days. The amount of space that your sites and MySQL processes use is measured periodically based on the number of disk blocks they utilize. These blocks are the system default block size, and represent the smallest possible allocation of disk space; even very small files and empty directories require at least one block each. The system then takes the average of that measurement and the prior measurement. The number of megabyte-days is then calculated on a pro-rata basis using the interval between the two measurements. What is unbilled storage? Unbilled storage refers to storage space (for sites or MySQL processes) that our system has recorded as used but which hasn't been billed to your account yet. The usual reason for this is that the unbilled amount is less than a penny; our system won't bill your account for storage until an individual site or MySQL process accumulates at least a penny's worth. This can cause the "Unbilled" amounts on the Account info panel to be higher than one penny if you have more than one site or MySQL process. E.g. if you have two sites on one account and one has 0.6 pennies worth of unbilled storage and the other has 0.8, your account will show 1.4 cents of unbilled storage, but won't bill you for storage until one or the other gets to the whole penny individually. The other way you can accrue unbilled storage charges is to allow your account to run out of funds. When an account is empty, storage charges won't be applied, but since we don't immediately delete your content when your account goes empty, each site or MySQL process will continue to accrue unbilled storage until one of two things happens: you make a deposit or the site/MySQL process is deleted. Once you make a deposit, unbilled storage charges in excess of a penny will post to your account. If you delete the site or MySQL process before you add funds, or if your membership expires, associated unbilled storage charges will be discarded along with the content. If you have large sites or MySQL processes and you leave an account empty for a long time, close to the 30 day limit for example, substantial unbilled storage charges may accrue. You should definitely take this into consideration -- and our system will attempt to warn you about it if applicable -- when adding funds to an account, to prevent further disruptions in service. https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=135&highlight=unbilled NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Member Forum Disk Space/Megabyte-Days jordon Guest Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 1:09 am Post subject: Disk Space/Megabyte-Days I seem to be billed for disk space by the day instead of the month, and I don't understand it. The rate is supposedly 1¢/1 MB/1 mo., but, viewing my Unbilled Storage report, it's counting by the day. Can anyone explain simply the system of byte-days and megabyte-days? I didn't really understand Tech FAQs answer. Thanks, Jordon pgolovin Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 33 Location: www.swiftlog.com Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 3:32 am Post subject: Reasonableness-check looks good to me I actually do have an account with approximately 1 megabyte of stuff. So as of today the unbilled storage says 7,769,568. I expect this to be about 9,000,000 or so tomorrow - it has been incrementing nicely in this way so far. If I was sitting on 10 megabytes, then the "unbilled storage" would get bigger by about 10-million per day. So in other words, if your account is just sitting there, every day you should see that number get bigger by exactly the number of bytes of storage you're using. The "averaging method" only matters if your storage is changing frequently. Because a megabyte is actually 2**20 or 1048576 base-ten bytes, a megabyte month is 31*(2**20) = 32,505,856 in base-ten, as it says in the FAQ. So in my case, just sitting on say an even megabyte of storage, after 31 days or so the "unbilled number" will reach 31 meg, and it will go to zero and decrement my balance by 1 penny. If the accounting numbers were reported in hexadecimal, then sitting on an even megabyte your unbilled would go up by 0x100000 every day. If a month had 32 days, as they surely should, then when the unbilled byte-days reached 0x2000000 you'd lose a penny. But for accounting to happen in hexadecimal, it would be nerd-world for sure ! . View user's profile jdw NearlyFreeSpeech.NET NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Joined: 07 Mar 2002 Posts: 12406 Location: NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 3:37 am Post subject: Yes, it is kind of complicated implementation of a simple idea. Storage is billed at the $0.01/MB/month rate, but the tracking and billing occurs continuously and not just in one big chunk at the end of the month. For the purposes of our system, we pretend all months have 31 days. This is good for you, because you end up paying less in shorter months. Thus, one megabyte-month is equal to 31 megabyte-days: 1 megabyte-month x (31 days / 1 month) = 31 megabyte-days Anytime you accumulate 31 megabyte-days, you get charged for one penny. Here are a couple of examples: If you use exactly one megabyte, you'll be charged for one penny after 31 days: 1 megabyte x 31 days = 31 megabyte-days If you use exactly two megabytes, you'll be charged for one penny after 15.5 days: 2 megabyte x 15.5 days = 31 megabyte-days If you use exactly 31 megabytes, you'll be charged one penny every day: 31 megabytes x 1 day = 31 megabyte-days Since you're unlikely to use an exact number of megabytes, the system tracks things in bytes instead of megabytes. That's where the rather unfortunate 32,505,856 number comes from: 31 megabyte-days x (1,048,576 bytes/megabyte) = 32,505,856 byte-days. So, anytime your storage counter gets up to 32,505,856, you get charged a penny and it goes back down. At the end of the month, it's all the same. Does that help? View user's profile Visit poster's website pgolovin Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 33 Location: www.swiftlog.com PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:12 am Post subject: >> it is kind of complicated implementation of a simple idea << Simple, until some day you might want to dynamically adjust your prices ! Like with weblogs, bar-charts would of course work. But talking blue-sky, suppose you measured the QUALITY of the megabytes. For example, one could measure the delay between requests being received and serviced. So if the server gets bogged down, you will pay less for your bandwidth, because it is less-quality-bandwidth. As the inventor it may be obvious to YOU that your load-balancing-miracle-algorithm will handle what must be the nightmare of some sites being slashdotted, others idle, etc. - if this algorithm is indeed easily instrumented then how excellent to offer this bar-chart of response-delay, to acknowledge the few slowdowns which one must assume will occur. Thus saving your webmasters the trouble of manually checking the response - they can just look at the log to examine the slowdowns. Or, butter-smooth scalability without any prior knowledge of the loading for the various sites, which would normally be provided by "which plan" the folks pay for, that plan tells them how many sites they can fit on a server, or so I assume the standard approach works. The more I think about this the more amazing it sounds - for now the response seems quite fine of course, we'll see, hmm. View user's profile jordon Guest PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 1:39 pm Post subject: Thanks! Thanks! I understand it now. 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