Metric Statistics - GB/MB option

[Arf]

When viewing the Metric Statistics in the "Products/Services" tab, the disk space is measured in GB. It would be nice if there was an option to change that to MB.

[WHMCS John]

Hi @Arf,

Thanks for your suggestion. During research and development we found that overwhelmingly disk space allowance was being allocated and used on the GB scale these days, so given the choice of one scale, GB seemed the best option.

Would you be able to share a little more information about your use-case in which seeing disk space usage in MB would be beneficial?

[yggdrasil]

On 6/24/2020 at 1:40 PM, WHMCS John said:

Hi @Arf,

Thanks for your suggestion. During research and development we found that overwhelmingly disk space allowance was being allocated and used on the GB scale these days, so given the choice of one scale, GB seemed the best option.

Would you be able to share a little more information about your use-case in which seeing disk space usage in MB would be beneficial?

I don't see why you have to marry to one option when it is a simple math calculation on the code,  regardless if you do this with PHP, JavaScript or even Smarty code. Why not just let us pick one? Doing this would require 2 extra lines of code and nothing else. And while GB is mostly the standard you are forgetting metered services that bill per unit, in that case, some people would still need to show the user MB units or have complaints from users because of the GB rounding. When it comes to billing, its always better to be as clear as possible because are charged for units and might want to see the smallest denominator.

If you ask me, there is nothing stopping you from putting all units there, MB, GB and even Kilo bits or even bytes units. Just let the user click over the metric and pick what he wants or switch between them on the fly since this would be a simple JavaScript calculation on the page. If this is hardcoded, maybe let someone pick for each product how he wants that measured.