One of our customers went from near zero traffic to requiring a 2Gbps bond over the course of a few days, so just another +1 that it can be in the Gbps range when one of your customers explodes, especially if it's a media rich site without CDN. On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Tom Sands <tsands@rackspace.com> wrote:
There is no telling how big a flash crowd might be. I've see them jump in the Gbps range and not Mbps.
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On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:06 PM, JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:
I am trying to figure out if our hosting plan has enough bandwidth (currently at 15Mbps, our average webpage is 300kb). One of our members may win a peace prize for scientific work so there may be a media blitz. Does anyone know how much traffic a 'media blitz' (for lack of a better word) generates? I can bump it to 50Mbps but I am not even sure if that is enough.
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