Treatment of this scenario by beefing up hardware or hosting plans, or temporarily increasing your metered limit is insufficient. Use a CDN for all static content, all the time. If your site averages low volume, it'll be very cheap. If you get a million page views in the first minute, you'll be glad to pay. Regardless of who is hosting, the host machine is most likely to hit OS/stack equivalents of either Apache Max Clients limits, or Mysql max_connections. It comes down to requests per second, and the memory or compute resources necessary to respond to each of those requests at internet scale. If not arbitrary daemon config limits, then probably the host hardware is crippled well before the link could become saturated, or you'd even surpass a metered rate. For instance https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ quotes 8.5 cents/GB for the first 10TB/mo. At 300KB/page view, that's $25 per 1 million page views, and reasonable confidence that the necessary compute resources will be instantly available when the wave hits. The are many CDN services available. Your origin wont even feel it, just use reasonable expiry times. Your hosting company may be able to set up a CDN for you, or set it up yourself: - let your hosted site respond to a new alias like origin.mysite.com - set up the CDN distribution - point your domain's www CNAME to your new distribution Enjoy a worldwide caching reverse proxy with limitless resources, priced per page view. Maybe someone can recommend a IPv6 capable CDN service. --- Dylan Ambauen On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:11 PM, JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:

Dylan, Thanks. I am not currently hosting my own servers and I need the

bandwidth by Monday, I was just notified of this potential event this afternoon.

-- Joe sent from Droid Ultra

Hi Joe,

I have had great success with using a CDN for this purpose. Amazon Cloud

Front or any other. A Content Distribution Network will cache your site all over the globe, reducing the load on your own server. I have seen high profile social media personalities draw millions of clicks within minutes of tweeting out something or another, and we can serve it all from a micro AWS instance without any increased load on the origin server.

Today I use CDNS for all static content.

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Dylan Ambauen

On Oct 2, 2015 8:06 PM, "JoeSox" <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:

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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.

-- Thank You, Joe