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� On the Radio Tonight | Main | Amazon Makes Me More Money �About ten days ago, I wrote about a bandwidth disaster that my records and the hosting provider's information indicated could cost thousands of dollars -- possibly as much as $15,000.
I got the good news today: it'll cost me nada. Nothing. Zip. You heard me! Hurray!
The reason: the provider drops the busiest hours of the month to the 95th percentile; this eliminates any weird spikes and doesn't penalize you for limited craziness. Because we halted the downloads soon enough, even though we served out 250 Gb of data over 36 hours and satured a 100 Mbps Internet pipe for nearly two hours, our 95th percentile utilization was only 0.2 Mbps.
Whew.
I've been holding my breath for 10 days.
Meanwhile, kind souls donated nearly $1,800 to help defray the bill. I'd already promised to donate the remainder, if any, to Project Gutenberg. I've now emailed all donors giving them the chance to back out, since the bill is zero; I'll be adding some of my own money to that donation as gratitude for the Internet's generosity.
I'm also writing a couple of articles about the panic attack and some ideas for better coping with excessive limited bandwidth needs.
Posted by Glennf at April 1, 2003 3:30 PM
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BitTorrent is the answer. Look at what CodeCon did for their 90+MB 2003 audio archive... BitTorrent is a P2P application, and if you provide the torrent for download you can generate stats. Look at these graphs from the BitTorrent of the RedHat 9 iso's.
Posted by: Kenneth at April 9, 2003 6:34 AM
Congratulations. I love the way you make bricks out of straw, planning to get several articles out of the experience. Spoken like a true freelancer!
Posted by: Tim at April 1, 2003 10:35 PM
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