From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2001-12-07T14:05:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27784] Re: web hosting

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:

> When they quote figures like '20GB Transfer' and '50GB Transfer', do
> they mean files that you upload/download, or 20GB total of network
> traffic to/from that virtual server? If it's the latter, how would they
> be able to tell that? And what, if any, effect would that have on
> something like a Ruby app server? What I mean is, suppose your site gets
>   hit for 30GB of transfer one month, but you only paid for 20; do they
> just stop traffic to your box, automatically bill you more, what? Any
> clues would be helpful. Thanks.
>
Overages typically are charged at a premium rate.
If my calculations are correct, one 56K modem working
at full speed 24/7 uses about 17GB per month.

One thing I liked about iserver is that there is
no bandwidth limitation. I was never able to find
another service that had no bandwidth limitation.
However, I did use one provider that was a small operation.
They said they limited bandwidth in their advertisements,
but after I signed up I found that they had no business
process in place to monitor usage.

Jim


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