Entries tagged with “bandwidth” from Garbage In, Garbage Out

Short news, gigo.com's network budget is going up; users using slow.gigo.com for transfers should notice a difference (And not need to make any changes).

End users on gigo.com, please note..

I pay for the amount of sustained bandwidth used. A portion of the peak traffic is "free" and then I pay for the next highest rate used. (Look for "95 percentile billing").

This means, I need people to either do what they are going to do with my server *quickly*, and use as few 5 minute peak periods as possible, or transfer slowly.

People wanting to do backups, please use "slow.gigo.com" for the server name. This will automatically throttle up/down once a minute based on server usage. Also, if more than one backup is running at once, this will keep things under the billing radar.

I *am* considering the costs of relocating to a place that simply charges for bandwidth moved; and/or paying my current provider more per month for a higher rate cap. Either way, it is money. Changing providers, means building a new box and migrating services, which requires time.

Please help me keep gigo.com mostly free, either move your data fast, or use slow.gigo.com - - *especially* if you're uploading from DSL (which is just over the speed limit, and uses the most possible "free" time).

Thanks!

jason

I'd like to thank meer.net for the excellent service they've given me. I recently had to relocate my host. Not only did they quickly handle my needs, they did it with little fuss or fanfare. They also were very flexible and accomodating to my schedule on moving the server.