Re: Bandwidth estimation question

[Ian Clark <ian.clark () dreamhost com>]

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.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:06 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.
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> > --
> > Thank You, Joe



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