IP assignment for virtual webhosting

it's not random.
For simple static websites it's about 10-20%.
What seems to be not counted is the data sent from the browser to the
server, so if you have bigger interactive systems where lots of data ist
entered or uploaded by our visitors, the difference is really high.
I could do some checks to give you exact data; we did so long ago and
decided that there is no good way to do an not-ip-based Accounting.

We now have our own Database driven accounting & billing system which would
be really complicated if i had to read out all the webserver logs.
It would be very cool to have a traffic counter as part of apache
(=>module) which stores the traffic on a by-named-host basis. Then Life
would be much easier and we would need less IP-Space... (anyone here who
has the time and knowledge to write such a module? =;-))))))
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Henning,

> (the traffic counted via access logs is << real traffic )

Can you expand on this? Is the difference between counted and real
traffic random, or a roughly equal (or proportional) overhead for
each server? Is the difference so significant that one cannot take
it into account as part of the charging structure?

Regards,
Dave

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