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� Free Books Like Free Speech Not Free Boor | Main | Bandwidth Bill �In the 32 or so hours since I posted this, we had 200 Gb or approximately 10,000 downloads of Real World Adobe GoLive 6. If one half of one percent of those people, or 50 folks, buy a copy of the book through Amazon.com then we might just pay our bandwidth bill (50 times $4.50 = $200).
The files were located at a Level 3 co-located server run by a friend, and he pays a small monthly fee based on 95 percent of the time running at 1 Mbps or less. We ran at 20 Mbps on average yesterday. I have no idea what the bill will be! $200? $2,000? Part of the experiment.
We may have to go shake a can and ask for $1 or $2 bandwidth donations (please!).
Adobe may host the book -- still working on that -- reducing future bandwidth. I'm not sorry at any price that I did this (well, at $20,000 I would be). But it's yet another part of the puzzle.
Posted by Glennf at March 20, 2003 9:05 AM
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$200 per mbit on a 95% percentile basis would not be a low price. If the provider charges $15000 you should certainly be able to talk them down.
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