What Is A Traffic Burst Notification?

Traffic Burst Notifications are an early warning system for Managed Server customers to help identify a significant spike outside of normal daily traffic usage including its highest usage times.

Set up your Burst notifications: Manage and Monitor your traffic

This warning system is only effective once Burst Notifications have been configured according to your unique usage trends

To understand your trends, we would recommend reviewing your konsoleH traffic reports and Awstats

For example:

If you get a rush of visits amounting to 300MB in 1 hour at lunchtime when you publish your latest news it is recommended to increase your burst notification to above this i.e. 400 MB. If you did over 400MB in 1 hour this may be classed as abnormal and something that the Burst Notification is designed to alert you to.

We configure Traffic Burst Notifications by default to ‘200MB in 1 hour’ for the entire server, this figure is used for all servers regardless of their business model, and it may not be the correct value for your specific usage.