I'm pleased you're interested.
I'm also thinking of a worse-case-scenario, we get /.-ed and blow the bandwidth out the window. Other than the obvious answer of removing the videos, what happens? Is the bandwidth capped or will just a nice-fat bill going to show up in the mail?
In that case, I think it would be completely appropiate for the ALU to spring for an additional 220GB of bandwidth. Any idea on the costs associated with that? Also who's your hosting provider?
- Heow
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 18:17, Mario Mommer wrote:
Hi!
Heow Eide-Goodman heow@alphageeksinc.com writes:
Guys,
You're currently hosting my project (the Lisp Resource Kit) and I'm VERY happy with the service, bandwidth and overall professionalism.
Wow, on behalf of everyone involved: thanks! :-)
Anyway, the ALU, along with the local user groups are looking for a place to host videos of various Lisp-geek demos and presentations. Presently the ALU lacks the bandwidth to host such items and I was wondering of you guys would be up for it.
Expected usage would be 2 100MB uploads/month, ~30 downloads/month (3GB) for about 3GB storage/year.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you have any bandwidth caps?
Yes, of the benign anti-{slashdotting|DoS} type. Currently our cap is 220Gb/month, simply because 200 is included in the hosting package, and the extra 20 is what I planed to afford. We currently use around 27 GB a month, and it is growing. A decent percentage of this BW use is backups, probably.
So there is bandwidth for the movies. Storage is another issue, though. We have enough for a year, I gather.
I sugest the following: we do it, and keep an eye on BW and disk usage. If it gets out of control, we ponder what to do then (after eventually getting them off the net, lest we trigger a shortage of SLIME).
We could host the movies as a project - or we could also think of something else...
Regards, Mario.