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·Comcast
| Re: Maybe It Is said by exocet_cm :I would think, and hope, that these companies have been preparing for the rush of digital shoppers since the previous holiday season. Co-lo business servers, even temporarily, increasing the pipe to these businesses, etc... would help solve the problem in my opinion. They got burnt last year because so many people waited until the last week or two before Christmas to shop. And then the sites got flooded with a last minute barrage of customers. The key to providing the bandwidth without costing them an arm and leg the rest of the year is to get what bandwidth they need on a short term contract. But the bandwidth providers will charge much much more for a short term deal. So, it is a balancing act of getting more bandwidth without running up their costs for a long period of time when it isn't needed. -- -- Internet News My BLOG My Web Page | |
|  |  |   Maggs Premium join:2002-11-29 Woodside, NY clubs: | Dual P3s can work Just not for long. You could load balance or just make one huge virtual server with a couple of boxes. -- Inside Cube Hell! | |
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·Verizon Online DSL
| Retail equals doing everything on the cheap Having worked in retail and having been a customer one thing is true of almost all retailers, they try to do it on the cheap. On some things retailers get away with this, but on IT it often comes to bite them in the rear. See the recent issues with identity theft and the like. They pay their IT staffs garbage and and don't budget for updated equipment then surprise surprise it all comes tumbling down. This is especially true for brick and mortar stores that also have web presence. | |
|   mdlthomas
join:2000-04-24 Nashville, TN | Why not Host If you create a virtual server, and put it in a Level 1 hosting facility, most of the time they have LOTS of bandwidth. I doubt Amazon wants to buy a gigabit connection to the internet, but hosting facilities like AT&T, Level 3, etc have plenty | |
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