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Re: Colocation and isp issues

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Raymond D. Mereniuk (Raymond@fbn.bc.ca)
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:59:37 -0800

Actually not quite true. Many web hosting companies offer
unlimited bandwidth or no traffic charges. The assumption is that
most web sites get very little traffic. I have done traffic stats on a
pair of web servers hosting over 300 domains, owned by a web
site reseller which handled hosting and web site maintenance for
customers. The traffic barely exceeded 4 GB per month as
measured by MRTG.

If you put a Terabyte web site in an unlimited bandwidth provider's
facilities they will be asking you for more money.

If you have a high traffic site and you are looking for an US provider
be aware that traffic is billed by the mega-bit-per-second using the
95th percentile rule (Level 3 may be 90th percentile). This billing
method can be a major disadvantage if your web site traffic varies
greatly through the day.

On 16 Mar 2001, at 11:28, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> Not likely, I point you to a comment on that issue by Pair Networks, a really
> good US based hosting company, they handle(s) the tomshardware.com site.
>
> http://www.pair.com/pair/faq/features.html#x17
>
> On 16 Mar 2001, at 10:46, Wm. G. McGrath wrote:
>
> > Hi Harondel,
> >
> > I doubt you're interested colo in Calgary but one of the people from
> > Imagesave.com made a point of telling me that they have no traffic
> > charges. Flat rate. There'll probably be more of it in a competitive
> > market.
>
>
> Harondel J. Sibble
> Sibble Computer Consulting
> Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user.
> help@pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com
> (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)

Virtually

Raymond D. Mereniuk
Raymond@fbntech.com
FBN - Delivering on the policy of "Lowered Expectations"
http://www.fbntech.com/service1.html 

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