ACCURATE Bandwidth Measurement

We're having a problem with a Web host that measures bandwidth usage at the switch, not at the router. This means that the client gets charged for ALL bandwidth usage, even that on the host's internal network, including database calls, back-ups, etc. This means that the client is also unfairly penalized for having a two-server system (separate database and Web server), as they get charged for all calls to the database from the Web server as well.

Is this standard practice? Frankly it seems grossly unfair and inaccurate. Shouldn't only traffic coming in from and going out to the Internet be measured as 'billable bandwidth'? How can a Web host justify charging for traffic occuring solely on the internal network segment as well? Wouldn't it be more accurate to measure bandwidth usage at the router to measure such external traffic, not at the switch, which measures everything, even traffic the client should not reasonably be charged for?

Or is this just a new and devious way for troubled Web hosts to avoid or find their way out of Chapter 11?

Thanks in advance...

 

 

 

 

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