Measuring the width (and the cost) of success
Rainy Day apologizes to all the loyal visitors who saw this message here over a 12-hour period from Friday into Saturday: "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded. The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later." What happened? All those clicks added up and because we were on the road and were paying attention to other things, the site stalled. Anyway, we have added 10GB to this blog's bandwidth limit and that should do for a while. But remember this: on the internet, popularity is a tax. Specifically, a bandwidth tax. Hardware may get cheaper, but bandwidth shows no sign of going down the same road. A must read if you are interested in this kind of thing is Jim Gray's Distributed Computing Economics.
Comments
Good that you are back!
Posted by: Xtian | April 22, 2007 9:00 PM
Bandwidth in Ireland is a joke, I'm on satellite and routinely my service (on Digiweb) is cut back to dial-up rate because I've allegedly downloaded more than average.
But isn't that the point of 'always on?'
Broadband in Ireland is a shambles,
One man spent a few million dollars and created wireless broadband for almost all of the State of Oregon.
Oregon is more than three times the size of Ireland.
But here, in Dublin alone the proposal is to spend 150 million euro to create wireless in just Dublin, with 20 million euro for annual maintenance. What a joke that would be were it not simply criminal.
Very full brown envelopes I should think.
Posted by: Henry Barth | April 22, 2007 9:40 PM