On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Nathan Gibbs wrote: > >> Anyways, 5TB comes at 2MB/s average, which is not that much. I can do it > >> with my $15 OVH/Kimsufi box and so do probably thousands of others. > > > > Perhaps, where you live. Here, in the good'ole USofA, if I set up a > > server to feed 170 GB/day, my ISP would shut me down and bill me big. > > > HERE HERE! > > My ISP is pretty cool about letting users do what they want. However, if > I started moving 170GB / day they would definitely be chasing me down to > have a chat. > :-)
The other thing is that server bandwidth isn't (in my experience) billed by average, but by peak, since the provider has to be provisioned for peak. This is why I asked for peak in my original question, and why freshclam wants to randomize when requests are made. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [email protected] -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
