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How daily traffic allowance is calculated
Monthly traffic is delivered as a daily allowance. Here is exactly how the math works and what happens when you go over.
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Traffic on every Lite VPS plan is delivered as a daily allowance, calculated by dividing the monthly traffic by 30 days. For example, a plan that includes 30TB of monthly traffic provides 1TB of usable traffic per day.
When the daily allowance is exceeded
If your daily allowance is exceeded, traffic credits charged to your account are consumed first. Once those credits run out, the instance is rate-limited to 1Mbps for the rest of the day. Service is restored at the start of the next allowance window.
Tip
Enable usage alerts at 80% of the daily allowance and keep a small traffic credit balance as a buffer. The portal will warn before either threshold is hit.
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