Glossary
Cost per success
What you pay to obtain one successful result, whatever the billing unit.
It is the price of an attempt divided by the success rate, with bytes counted for failures too on traffic-priced products. It is the only way to compare per-GB, per-IP and per-request offers.
Further reading: Cost per success tool.
Related terms
- Success rate
The share of requests that returned a page passing a stated content check. - Bandwidth billing
Charging by the bytes moved, request and response together. - Retry amplification
The number of attempts made for each successful result.
Test it on your own targets.
Create an account, run the measurement harness against your real workload, and read the numbers before you commit to anything.