Here's a good metafilter thread about bandwidth and the way these costs can suddenly balloon when a site gets popular. Baseballprimer.com is the site in question. Right now their front page reads (in part): "We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to a large amount traffic,
Baseball-Reference.com has been temporarily disabled by our hosting provider
Communitech.net. While lots of traffic is generally not thought of as a bad thing,
"unlimited bandwidth" does not always mean unlimited bandwidth. In the first week
of April, Baseball-Reference served 1.07 million files (134k per day) and a total of
650k in individual pages (85k of these are scripts that require a trip to the
database), while servicing 42,000 distinct hosts. The 11.3 GB of data transferred is
also a very high total. We hope to have the site up and running very soon (maybe
tomorrow), but these issues are unlikely to go away and may only become more
acute as the site continues to gain in popularity."
The metafilter thread has more links to other interesting things on this topic. Before anyone starts thinking that our fun here could be in jeapordy, just keep in mind that 11.3 gigs is A LOT of data to be serving per month. So far this month (april 1 through april 12) we have served approximately 170 megs of information. We can double in size four times before any of these concerns come into play. And with my crappy database programming you can be sure that the site will break down long before that.
So if we post 4 X as many pictures, we can tip this puppy over !?
I'm sorry, it sounded like a challenge.
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The metafilter thread has more links to other interesting things on this topic. Before anyone starts thinking that our fun here could be in jeapordy, just keep in mind that 11.3 gigs is A LOT of data to be serving per month. So far this month (april 1 through april 12) we have served approximately 170 megs of information. We can double in size four times before any of these concerns come into play. And with my crappy database programming you can be sure that the site will break down long before that.
- jim 4-13-2001 8:48 pm
So if we post 4 X as many pictures, we can tip this puppy over !?
I'm sorry, it sounded like a challenge.
- bill 4-13-2001 9:01 pm [add a comment]