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
There is no telling how big a flash crowd might be. I've see them jump in the Gbps range and not Mbps. Sent from my iPhone
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.
-- Thank You, Joe
Would cloudflare caching (free tier?) help in this case? Maybe easier than upgrades for short time traffic bump. On 2 Oct 2015 23:47, "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.
Sent from my iPhone
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.
-- Thank You, Joe
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.
Sent from my iPhone
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.
-- Thank You, Joe
-- Ian Clark Network Engineer DreamHost m: 818.795.2216
On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:04:50 -0700, JoeSox said:
Does anyone know how much traffic a 'media blitz' (for lack of a better word) generates?
We had a tragic incident on campus in 2007. Our dual 1G's died right away, and we hurried to deploy an in-progress 10G link install that day, and *that* barely kept up with the hits even when we stripped the webpage down to about 20K of static text. Unfortunately for humanity and fortunately for your bandwidth budget, a peace price is unlikely to generate as much traffic as tragedy.
On 10/3/15 6:04 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:04:50 -0700, JoeSox said:
Does anyone know how much traffic a 'media blitz' (for lack of a better word) generates?
Disclaimer I work for a CDN of but I'm a former consumer of such services as well. if you have recourse to a CDN it can be farily straight forward to shift the serving of resources to or away from it in reponse to demand. if you have an existing setup with a CDN, control of your DNS, reasonably short TTLs, and decent seperation of resource names from the physical machines on which they reside this can be done without anticipation, rather quickly. It's cheap and easy enough to experiment with a least some of these services that you can experiment with them for little or sometimes no cost prior to employing them. joel
We had a tragic incident on campus in 2007. Our dual 1G's died right away, and we hurried to deploy an in-progress 10G link install that day, and *that* barely kept up with the hits even when we stripped the webpage down to about 20K of static text.
Unfortunately for humanity and fortunately for your bandwidth budget, a peace price is unlikely to generate as much traffic as tragedy.
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