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Jeff
06-03-2008, 08:42 PM
It would be handy for resellers if a per-account monthly resource usage overview could be provided in questadmin.

What I'm thinking of is something like the following:
On a dedicated server I have a quick rrd graph just to see the disk usage over time to see the trend, like:
http://www.islanddesign.com/temp/disk-usage-graph.jpg

What would be cool would be to have a similar graph (or even just a data table) showing disk usage:
account1.com
account2.net
account3.com
etc.
so you could get a quick overview of your resold accounts usage over the past and coming year, whether they are steadily increasing or simply peaking at the current value.

(Right now I'm thinking of disk space and bandwidth as the primary metered resources but this could be expanded in the future as more resources are metered that currently can't be like memory or cpu cycles, etc., or to include email accounts, etc. or anything else that is currently tabulated per each CNC but not bundled into one handy place to see, and to see over time for accounts that you don't login to the CNC regularly to get your own sense of the historical trend.)

hobbes
06-03-2008, 10:45 PM
I've generally found past trends to not be very useful for predicting our clients future usage (e.g., "oh I thought I'd back up my hard drive to the hosting account for a few days"). We do however conduct daily off-site backups of clients whose site we manage, including dumps of email account (sizes) and databases, and use that to generate a daily report of resources used. Accounts near capacity are monitored and clients are encouraged to upgrade if needed.

I'm all for getting FQ to provide more tools to resellers though...

-- and a little more disk space ;) --