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Bandwidth Blown!

Posted Oct 31, 2004

With my current host, I have a one terabyte bandwidth quota. That should be enough for most anyone, but apparently not for me:

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With less than two hours to go before my October monthly limit is reset, I've used 995 of my 1000 GB. (A disturbing 262GB of that was the Tony Hawk/Star Wars Kid video.)

21 Comments (Add Yours)

Oct 31, 2004
8:17 PM  
Adam Bramwell wrote:

I take it this means no bandwidth blowout this month?? bugger.


Oct 31, 2004
8:34 PM  
jc wrote:

Hmm, if I had more spare, I'd love to help out... my 10gb a month would probably get eaten in an instant :D


Oct 31, 2004
8:58 PM  
Scott wrote:

How did you possibly manage to use 30 GB inbound?


Oct 31, 2004
10:37 PM  
Andy Baio wrote:

Good question. I looked at the stats, and it's consistently averaging about a gig of inbound traffic every day... I'm guessing it's mostly spam and virus attachments sent to my mail server.


Nov 1, 2004
7:09 AM  
Mike Steinbaugh wrote:

What host offers that much bandwidth? I get 60 GB a month with Dreamhost, but that's nothing compared to 1 TB!


Nov 1, 2004
7:46 AM  
nakedgremlin wrote:

Mike S... the only place I've ever found to offer such large bandwidth is ev1servers. Their dedicated host packages usually have 1TB of bandwidth. I know that ev1servers.net houses metafilter.com (and other high traffic sites), which is one major reason why I signed up with them -- 1TB of bandwidth, reliable service, etc. (I'm not employed by ev1servers, just a satisfied customer.)


Nov 1, 2004
9:57 AM  
Scott Johnson wrote:

I need to get myself some of that 1TB/month loving. I'm stuck with 10GB and whatever I can squeeze through an already crowded T1 elsewhere. Is ev1 the place where this site is hosted?


Nov 1, 2004
10:46 AM  
Andy Baio wrote:

Yep, I'm at EV1. But I pay $140/month, so that's not for everyone. Other friends of mine have been happy with Servermatrix, which offers 1.2TB of bandwidth with every account.


Nov 1, 2004
2:05 PM  
dj drue wrote:

Bandwidth mania!

I don't know if anyone else said this yet, but thanks for putting some much stuff up and making so much available. I'm sure I speak for others when I say how much I appreciate your posts and links. Waxy.org has definitely become a major meme engine. Well done and keep up the good work.


Nov 1, 2004
7:36 PM  
Shannon wrote:

AIT offers root servers with 1000GB (doesn't it sound BIGGAR?!) for $39.95/mo. I mean, those are Celerons, but you can bump up to a P4 with more stuffs for $69.95. You people pay too much. :P


Nov 1, 2004
7:36 PM  
Shannon wrote:

PS: Did you make it?!


Nov 1, 2004
9:58 PM  
Andy Baio wrote:

Yeah, I didn't go over quota.... That AIT deal is insane. There must be a catch.


Nov 1, 2004
10:25 PM  
Nathan Perkins wrote:

I use LiquidWeb.com for my hosting and I get 1TB a month, but of course I am also paying almost $300 per month...I get a beautiful server out of it though. Still, the terabyte doesn't go nearly as far as I expected it to. I started mirroring some of the sites I found on here (like the music ones and the crossfire video) and it got up to 600GB in half a month. Of course, downloads dropped quickly after the initial surge.


Nov 2, 2004
5:18 AM  
max wrote:

The amount of spam that you're getting is insane (if even half of the 30GB is spam). You're providing a great service here and I want to tell you that this site is great. Much appreciated.

Keep up the momentum. Just a question, what's the overage rate?


Nov 2, 2004
6:07 AM  
Andy Baio wrote:

It's $.75/gig.


Nov 2, 2004
6:04 PM  
Jason wrote:

The Planet also offers that much space (and more)

http://www.theplanet.com

http://www.servermatrix.com


They also have "unlimited bandwidth" accounts that give you a 20Mbps connection.


Nov 2, 2004
9:07 PM  
jc wrote:

Don't know where it's hosted, but narutofan.com chews through a huge amount of TBs a month... How do you find out?


Nov 3, 2004
4:10 PM  
Charles wrote:

I have found dinix to be really responsive and they also offer 1000gb...

http://dinix.com/hosting/dedicated.htm


Nov 5, 2004
4:14 PM  
jc wrote:

My site is hosted on Theplanet, and recently they have been totally useless, with much less than 70% uptime, losing mySQL dbs and generally making my forums an unhappy place. Not recommended.


Nov 5, 2004
7:31 PM  
lhl wrote:

Did a search on WHT. The catch w/ AIT is that it sucks, so much so that there's an aitsucks.com domain up there. They apparently never stop charging you're credit card (!!!)

My experiences:
EV1 - great bandwidth, responsive tickets. I cancelled w/ them originally b/c of the SCO thing, but their instant provisioning is pretty awe-inspiring if you need overflow bandwidth. Extra boxes come up in about 20s. - 1.0TB/mo

ServerMatrix - my current primary host. They also have stupendous bandwidth. I've hit 80Mbps on my box. They set up Debian on it w/ XFS according to my partitionmap, and my machine's been up for 231 days now. So yeah, you can say that I've been really happy there. - 1.2TB/mo

800 Hosting - data center in Dallas Infomart. Just picked up a machine there and they've been responsive although right now I'm stuck on a 100MBps switch so their performance has been less than impress. They've said they're replacing that w/ a GigE connection, so we'll see how that works out next week. - 1.8TB (but my current server would be hard pressed to phsyically push that much)

Still in business but TEH SUCK, stay away: VRT Servers

I've yet to try Managed.com ($60 might be worth a shot despite mixed reviews), and I should try Superb Servers and ServInt sometime, as both get glowing reviews generally. Here's a recent review thread at WHT: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=273492


Dec 6, 2004
4:17 PM  
mac wrote:

bandwidth overages suck, but you really can't complain getting hits can you?


 

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