At 11:12 AM 9/7/01, Jeroen wrote:
>Sometimes people still manage to amaze me. Did other Brinellers with a
>site hosted at GeoCities receive this as well? (Yeah, you probably did.)
>
>
>At 21:11 6-9-01 -0700, GeoCities wrote:
>>Dear GeoCities Member:
>>
>>Congratulations, http://www.geocities.com/jeroenvb.geo is
>>very popular and has been receiving a large amount of traffic. Your
>>site has become so popular, in fact, that our records indicate that
>>you're using more than the allotted amount of data transfer we provide
>>for a free web site, which is 3GB/month (measured on an hourly basis).
OK, they say they measure on an hourly basis:
3 GB/month divided by 30 days/month = 100 MB/day
100 MB/day divided by 24 hours/day = 4.something MB/hour.
Perhaps they are saying that if data transfer at your site _ever_ exceeds
4.17 MB/hour, i.e., if during any single hour since your site went up there
was more than 4.17 MB of data transfer, then they consider your data
transfer rate to be "more than 3GB/month (measured on an hourly
basis)". IOW, they are considering "one-time peak" usage, not "average" or
"sustained" usage. Which may not sound right to you, but they could
probably get away with something like that.
Of course, this is all just speculation on my part.
--Ronn! :)
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