On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 03:52:08PM -0700, tim wrote:
vnstat runs on my homebox but had strange effects on the vps. After starting the tor deamon some megabytes got counted. But then stoped counting all further traffic until vnstat -u, then counted again only some megabytes. Just reinstalled vnstat today and now it seems to work pretty well.
That's normal for vnstat. A typical installation will add a 'vnstat -u' entry to cron.
The relay is limited to 1-2Mbyte/s now, lets see how long it stays. Am I going over my allowance or is somebody elso going over her/his allowance? They sell anonymous vservers for 5 bucks. Who cares? What if on my vacations someone gets access and makes 180 TB for a month? The question was more likely: Should i care? I don't care for the server, don't need it anymore.
As a matter of principle, I should think one should care. $5 or not, you're potentially negatively impacting other users on your network. I'd hope the provider has a handle on that though ... In any case it sounds like you had at least a gentleman's agreement for 50GB per month and IMHO, people should honor such things.
-ta