Business account and Home account
There are tow types of operators you can create.
Why two types of operators
When you build a cloud based filtering service, one of the problems you have is to find out the exact
number of users behind a router. It may be possible when there is some kind of agent installed and
running behind a router and NxCloud supports several agents for that. However, many of your customers
don't need to differentiate users and they just want to have one global policy for everybody. It means
you don't know how many users they have.
To solve this problem, we limit the request count for a user. Currently, one user can make 3,000 requests
a day. This is more than enough considering one user makes under 1,000 requests a day according to our
statistics so far. However, we may have another issue from this request count limit approach. If you
have a customer using your service in a home environment. There will be several familiy members and they
have multiple Internet accessing devices. But they wouldn't pay for multiple users. In that case, this 3,000
daily request limit is too small for the customer.
To address this 'Home User' issue, we introduced the concept of operator type. There are 2 kinds of operator types
on NxCloud. One is 'Business' and the other is 'Home'. Business type operators are nothing special.
They can create as many users as they want and each of the users has 3,000 request limit. But if they
are home type operators, they can create up to 5 users only while they have 12,000 extra request count.
This means their first user has 15,000 request count limit. Normally, they don't need to create additional users
as the number is enough to cover their family needs.
On NxCloud, you can adjust the amount of requests your operator can make by setting up 'Max User' value
for an operator.
When an operator gets 'Too many requests' error, you will be notified by an email and you can
reset their request counting on operator edit page.