[support] Cloud pricing estimates

[adept techlists - kazar]

> 	Ms. Nancy Wichmann <mailto:nan_wich at bellsouth.net>
> June 3, 2011 7:13 PM
>
>
> I am a free-lance web developer who often is asked to help people pick 
> a hosting company. I believe cloud hosting is becoming mature and 
> robust enough to seriously recommend it. In order for me to be able to 
> give some reasonable recommendations, is there some way to estimate 
> what their current usage is? Most of my customers currently use cPanel 
> driven sites with pretty much standard tracking apps on them. Is there 
> anything in one of those apps that would give me an idea of what they 
> might cost when moved to the cloud?

Hi Nancy --

In the cPanel UI look for "stats". You'll probably find the choices 
Webalizer and Analog. In the Webalizer stats you'll find a rough idea of 
bandwidth consumption if you add up all the days in a given month. If 
you can connect to the account via ssh I'm pretty sure there's a command 
you can run to tally the total size of the account's home or public_html 
directory (sorry I wouldn't know the command myself but I could swear I 
looked it up once and found it, then promptly forgot it).

However, cPanel is likely running within WHM, which is the admin tool 
used on a server or VPS that doles out cPanel domains on the server. If 
your clients have a VPS or private server they ought to also have access 
to the overall server control panel at an address like 
https://servername.domain.com:2087 (you'll need to know the root login 
to access this).

In WHM if you use the "Find" field in the upper l-h corner to filter the 
menus and type in "usage" you'll see various choices though not all are 
broken out on a per-domain basis if you need that. You can get bandwidth 
consumption by domain (without having to add up daily values), file 
space usage, etc.

hope that helps!

kazar
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