One of our customers went from near zero traffic to requiring a 2Gbps bond over the course of a few days, so just another +1 that it can be in the Gbps range when one of your customers explodes, especially if it's a media rich site without CDN.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Tom Sands <tsa...@rackspace.com> wrote: > > There is no telling how big a flash crowd might be. I've see them jump in the > Gbps range and not Mbps. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:06 PM, JoeSox <joe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I am trying to figure out if our hosting plan has enough bandwidth >> (currently at 15Mbps, our average webpage is 300kb). >> One of our members may win a peace prize for scientific work so there may >> be a media blitz. >> Does anyone know how much traffic a 'media blitz' (for lack of a better >> word) generates? >> I can bump it to 50Mbps but I am not even sure if that is enough. >> >> -- >> Thank You, Joe -- Ian Clark Network Engineer DreamHost m: 818.795.2216
