Ms. Nancy Wichmann
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