> web-hosts >provide limited transfer rates from anything like 1000MB/month,
> >2000/MB/month up to unlimited MB/month. > >Ofcourse the added
> >>Which brings up another question. How do you know how
> >>much space is enough? Some hosting companies offer
> >>various amounts of space, i.e., 5MB, 10 MB, 50MB, etc.
> >>How can you calculate how much you need?
How do you calculate how much space your store needs. It is much
easier to increase your disk space than to increase you floor space.
> >Hint: choose webhosting services offering unlimited bandwidth/traffic!
I would not have much respect for a company that offers "unlimited
bandwidth"; it is not reality. iserver.com offers reasonable
unlimited bandwidth. This I can understand. I believe they will
request that a site move up the ladder if it consumes a lot of
bandwidth; they should; perhaps they should be more up front about
this (just about my only complaint against them).
But, but how do you translate bandwidth into responsiveness? I am
looking at a quotation from Abovenet. It was suggested that I buy the
plan with bandwidth in the 95th percentile of 128Kbs. I have no idea
what that means, unless it means what I think: that they will
transfer up to a maximum of 128K per second, or , it would be as if
my website were connected via dual channel ISDN. Or perhaps it means
that they will transfer what ever is needed based on requests but
that if I exceed 128K per second for too long then they will have to
charge me more ... or they will simply queue requests ... or ....
I currently get an unknown bandwidth rate from an ISP that has
multiple T-1's. I much prefer the known to the unknown. But how
could I explain to someone that the above measured rate is better
than the unmeasured rate? And how would I know I would be telling
the truth? I think that the unmeasured rate might or might not be
better all depending on how may houses are hooked up to the pipe
whereas in the other case I always know exactly what I am getting.
Peter
Might is not Right. But there is a lot of Might knocking
about in this world, and something has to be done about it.
-- King Arthur, The Once and Future King
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