On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Pete Templin wrote:
And hopefully they'll (someday) send servers in my direction - is their "minimum criteria" creeping upwards at the same rate as overall Internet traffic did in the late 90s?
The impression I got was they originally scattered their machines to everyone who had a network with a growth plan and bought them a beer. Some people even got/get paid to host them. After the .com crash they started being a bit more careful about who they gave them to and doing a bit more analysis as whether a new site was worth the trouble. One way to get a cluster might be to suggest that your will make better use of it than a nearby company with a cluster that is much smaller than you. I have heard of people trying this in Australia, no idea how well it works. I know people who were doing under 10Mb/s via their clusters, but they are in Aus/NZ so the threshold might be higher elsewhere. -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.