[Gllug] On a Fasthost adv.

[Progga]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 07:01:57PM +0000, Paul Lee wrote:
> 
> > If you click on the link labelled "Unmetered Bandwidth", you'll see that
> > it is throttled to a maximum rate per second but they don't impose a
> > further absolute limit on bandwidth used per day/week/month.  So if your
> > site is humming along at maximum throughput, you won't suddenly find
> > yourself cut off until you pay extra.  That seems a reasonable enough
> > definition of Unmetered.
> 
> With perhaps the downside their is no "burst" say up to 10 Meg, so if 
> there is sudden demand for graphics or media files on your server 
> they'll be squashed down the throttled down pipe. Swings and 
> roundabouts. You can't have it all ways I suppose.

True, but you can also temporarily configure the http server to redirect
everything to yoursite.nyud.net - The Coral Content Distribution Network -
at least a momentary respite as long as your site is not too dynamic.

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