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As a file hosting company, one of our central tasks is to control our bandwidth usage. We must see, who is using how much and for what. Especially illegal files can be found that way fast, if you know what to look for.

Because tradebit runs on a Linux server cluster with Apaches, I was looking into serveral tools and wanted to share the links with you, in case you need an overview.

First, I decided to go with bw_mod, which has a version number of 0.6 but works pretty stable.

Another friend pointed me to BWMtools, which I have not yet tested.

Ultimately, the best solution would be a traffic shaper, directly in the switch, which could do intelligent routing of traffic. That would also cover some Load Balancing issues. However are advanced switches a bit more expensive than a standard Linux PC, which could do the same job.

For Mac servers, there is a nice article (which is worth reading for Win/Lin admins, too) on AFP548.

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