On Mon, 14 May 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote:
> 3.Now I host with different provider (in the US), and there were times
> when my site got 8GB/day traffic (dynamic and static content). What thay
> say is "our servers reliability is our problem, not yours. We will bill
> you accordingly, but our servers won't be down because of your traffic.
> You do notneed to contact us about your site's traffic. We will
> contact you if there's overcharge".
this ammounts to about 1M bit per second (1Mbps). i don't know _when_ you
had that site up, but it would cost the ISP around 100K$ per year these
days, and about 6 times that ammount 5-6 years ago. would you have payed
that ammount (plus extra for some ISP profit)? in fact, the cost to the
ISP is and was higher then that for the link itself. on the other hand,
since this is outgoing traffic, then charing the user somewhat less then
this would still be profitable. but this is around the relevant ammount.
who would have payed that? i certainly wouldn't. instead, i'll place the
site abroad (as you did, which was the right thing to do for _your_ kind
of site).
as ariel said, bandwidth is and was much cheaper in the states (e.g. when
a T1 link for a israeli ISP cost around 0.75M-1M $ per year, the same link
cost about 36K $ a year. i think the proportions have gotten quite lower
now, thought there is still a difference of an order of magnitude more or
less). so it was the case that buying a web site in the states was way
cheaper then buying it here, and if you served content to the rest of the
world, it was pointless having your web site here - and for large sites
it's still the case today.
> So I think this is Actcom's job to ensure that their network, routers
> and servers are up to their job, and monitor it 24x7 for possible
> problems. Anything less is incompetence on their side.
and part of this is making sure their network is not getting saturated.
regulating traffic renders the web site useless, so it is not an option.
as for hiding the fact that bandwidth supplied for a site is limited - i
cannot comment on that without seeing the price quote you have seen.
--
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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