Comments on: Breaking through the bandwidth barrier https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/ A blog from the staff at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:09:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Monica https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4490 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:56:54 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4490 New recruit here… and enjoying your service very much.

I am curious: what (approximate) level of traffic could a site deal with through this webhost??

i.e. At any point would a VPS or Dedicated server allow more bandwidth etc. than this? (I don’t mean pricing wise, just in terms of capacity… any limit?)

Cheers.

And, feel free to just direct to me to the member FAQ instead if necessary 😉 – lol.

It depends. If all you need is bandwidth, it should be pretty well unlimited. There have been a couple of cases where we have asked people to move on based on CPU usage, but those involved specific situations where they had a poorly-tuned application and couldn’t or wouldn’t optimize it for the load they were getting. Those were also before the days of 8-core cluster nodes.

A VPS or single dedicated server would definitely not be able to serve more bandwidth. Most of them are capped to 10 or 100Mbps; our load-sharing architecture can serve a single site into multiple Gbps if the site is fast enough (i.e. static content) and you can pay for it. -jdw

]]> By: Tom https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4262 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:51:49 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4262 Guys this is awesome! As mentioned above, if there was a cheaper disk option you guys would be uber!

]]> By: Steve https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4252 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:48:52 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4252 wow, thanks so much – never a doubt this is the best web hosting for personal sites. cheers!!

]]> By: P https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4216 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:37:19 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4216 Thank you… thank you… thank you.

I’ve been a member for, what, 5+ years. Two things to say:

1. Thank you for the bandwidth changes — it’s now much more economical to scale at NFSN.

2. The reliability has been absolutely outstanding since the major datacenter switch. Good move.

Once again, thank you! 🙂

]]> By: ===H https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4210 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:01:36 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4210 I just set live a site that might get a fair amount of traffic for a short period; so of course I went looking for the bandwidth bucket purchase option. This sounds great. Now if only..

]]> By: Alexander Else https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4204 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:59:56 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4204 Main screen turn on.
It’s you !!
How are you gentlemen !!
All your bandwidth are belong to us.
You are on the way to 403.
What you say !!
You have no chance to serve web make your time.
Ha Ha Ha
Take off every packet !!
You know what you doing.
Move packet.
For great justice.

Oh hai, I’m in ur serverz upgradin ur RAM. -JDW

]]> By: Bumpy Light https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4127 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:31:01 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4127 Maybe it’s just the decent slug of blackberry-flavored brandy I just downed, but dammit, your willingness to go with a clearly and bluntly mathematical formula for calculating a reasonable profit simply rocks.

]]> By: ttuttle https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4119 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:15:23 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4119 jdw, you have once again made NFSN even more freaking awesome than it was. Wow. You guys totally rock.

]]> By: Starfish https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4095 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:33:33 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4095 I’m not slacking off work, I’m waiting for my bytes per penny to increase.

Fantastic job guys!

]]> By: Christian and Kate https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4093 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:49:48 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/02/01/breaking-through-the-bandwidth-barrier/#comment-4093 Thanks guys! This plan is far easier for me to manage and as we were getting set to buy our first bandwith bucket, I was hoping for a plan that works this way. I can focus more on the look and feel of the site and not so much about the cost.

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