Quota System

[sbuser]

This probably belongs in the beta test forum but I think it's still locked?

The new quota system is great - it will help a lot - but I have a suggestion.

With many US telecom companies capping bandwidth at 250-500GB / month lots of us are using dd-wrt and other routers with multiple ISPs. A slightly more robust quota system would be good in this scenario. From my point of view the best way to handle this would be to allow users to create multiple quotas - eg Quota 1 = 500GB, Quota 2 = 250GB - and then allow users to assign each Server to a specific Quota.

So something like:

Server 1: Quota 1
Server 2: Quota 1
Server 3: Quota 1

Server 4: Quota 2

...and so forth. Generally speaking certain servers must be routed across certain ISPs (and therefor certain quotas) to prevent multi-user authentication errors from the usenet providers. That's why I would organize the system as described.

Something to think about adding. I'm very happy for quotas but as things stand I have to use a pretty conservative number to account for traffic imbalances across multiple providers and etc. A more robust system would allow for better control and less conservative numbers.

Thanks!

[shypike]

The Beta board is open now.
But this is something for the Feature Request board, as we're not going to add this to 0.7.0.
BTW: multiple ISPs, isn't it cheaper to pay for the extra GBs?

[sbuser]

Overage costs run about a dollar a gig where I am (which is absurd). A plan for 250-500 will run 40-70$ a month depending on a variety of factors. So no, paying for the extra gigs is certainly not worth it. There are no providers that offer plans in excess of 500 GB in my area (a major metro area in the US).

[shypike]

How do you make a specific Usenet server use a specific ISP?
SABnzbd itself won't help you with this.

[sbuser]

Right - that's done in the router (dd-wrt and similar flavors).

All SAB would need to do is allow the user to assign a given server to a given queue and allow for multiple queues that function just like the single one does now.