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We like Savvis

Go ask them to give you a quote, Akamai is crazy what they charge, Savvis
has a great contect delivery system (on par or close to Akamai).

  http://savvis.net/

If the XCP Update contains copyright infringement, then ISPs providing connections to the copyright material are obligated to honored any DMCA notice.

Savvis does a good portion of this. They even will outsource an entire data center to a customer (or 2, if you're microsoft).

Check them out

Many sites are moving towards utility based hosting or virtualized setups. The problem with high capacity sites is that you often end up having to purchase enough servers to deal with peak time, but don't need the servers during off hours. Utility based hosting services charge you for what you _use_ and allow you to scale as needed. Savvis (http://www.savvis.net/ I know offers a utility hosting platform based on Inkra, 3Par and blade servers. IBM has a similar setup.

This is absolutely unacceptable moderation. Your comment wasn't flamebait regardless of your views about Rupert Murdoch. While I disagree that he's a "neo-con", you have every right to say the opposite and those who disagree have a duty to respond with their reasons.

My feeling is that this is a major enough issue as far as Slashdot is concerned. Please, if you feel as I do, email CmdrTaco explaining why you feel the moderation is unfair, and asking that it be overturned and that the moderator in question have their moderation privileges revoked. If you can't get a fair answer, then the next steps up are your local AG, and Slashdot's ISP, Savvis.NET. You can contact them by email too. Remember to be polite and succinct. Ask them to look into this clear abuse of moderation privileges. Tell them free speech is the bedrock of a democratic society. Explain how the lack of action against such a clearly abusive moderator damages your ability to speak as you wish and people to hear what you're saying.

Together, working together, we can undo this kind of wanton abuse of the moderation system.

CDN from the likes of Savvis (think: Digital Island) or Akamai (Buyer Beware here) all but completely alleviate flash-crowd pain. Ask for a free trial or a trail period with no commitment as see what I mean. In fact, you're an idiot for not at least looking into this.

Most of the big long distance companies have their own fiber and use it to carry Internet traffic. Probably most of the bits in this post travelled over those very lines. Let's see:

$ tracert.exe slashdot.org

Tracing route to slashdot.org [66.35.250.150]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 10.1.2.1
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10.20.65.1
3 270 ms 221 ms 290 ms [redacted]
4 160 ms 291 ms 260 ms [redacted]
5 191 ms 230 ms 270 ms tbr1-p012301.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.9]
6 120 ms 290 ms 200 ms ggr2-p310.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.65]
7 170 ms 501 ms 200 ms dcr1-so-3-3-0.Chicago.savvis.net [208.175.10.93]
8 271 ms 250 ms 271 ms dcr2-loopback.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net [206.24.210.100]
9 150 ms 270 ms 281 ms bhr1-pos-0-0.SantaClarasc8.savvis.net [208.172.156.198]
10 200 ms 270 ms 231 ms csr1-ve243.SantaClarasc8.savvis.net [66.35.194.50]
11 110 ms 291 ms 280 ms 66.35.212.174
12 slashdot.org [66.35.250.150] reports: Destination host unreachable.

Trace complete.

Some smaller outfits just lease capacity or resell it, but they're agile enough to figure out what to do.

(From the "this is news?" department):

Found on their website

The following general actions are considered "abuse" and are strictly prohibited:

1. Any conduct which is inconsistent with generally accepted norms and expectations of the Internet community (whether or not detailed in this AUP). SAVVIS reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to make a determination whether any particular conduct violates such norms and expectations.
2. 
   Using SAVVIS networks to transmit material that SAVVIS believes to be illegal, obscene, or inappropriate.
   Forging of message headers or identity information, or taking any action with the intent of bypassing restrictions or limits on access to a specific service or site. This prohibition does not restrict the legitimate non-commercial use of pseudonymous or anonymous services.
   Falsifying identity or contact information (whether given to SAVVIS, to the InterNIC, or other parties).

And found elsewhere on the same page, specifics against "spam e-mailing." That pretty much covers the actions of those who are using the system to send out unsolicited commercial e-mail.

I believe that Savvis ought to be made to completely reveal to the authorities and the Internet Community the identities, home and work addresses and telephones of those persons identified with the sending of UCEs. That might take 10 days, though it should not.

Of course that means I'll get less pr0n in my in-box....

Microsoft is not stupid enough to cache everything with Akamai. They also hand Digital Isla..I mean Exod...I mean Cable and Wi...I mean Savvis a lot of traffic. Or so I'm told.

Someone to lease servers to you and manage them ("managed hosting" or "managed servers")

To buy the hardware yourself, colocate it in someone's datacenter and manage it yourself ("colocation" or "colo")

Buy hardware that matches what the provider uses for managed servers and have them put it in their datacenter and manage it ("managed colo" or "molo")

Buy hardware that matches what the provider uses for managed servers, leave it at your site with a T1 or other connection and have the provider manage it ("managed onsite servers")

The company I work for, SAVVIS, does all four, but I recommend managed hosting.

Some more about managed hosting:

We manage Windows and Red Hat on Compaq hardware and Solaris on Sun. We can also help manage certain applications (not the custom code or data, but the configs, patches etc.) like Oracle, WebLogic, Apache, SunONE (iPlanet), MS SQL, IIS, etc.

The other issue is what kind of networking you want - we have some cool options on that end as well. Besides a great internet connection you can get a true private IP network (not just a VPN, although you could do that instead) to securely and reliably upload and manage your custom data and code. And of course either a virtualized or dedicated managed firewall, loadbalancing, EMC and/or dedicated external storage.

We have several very cool datacenters - the ~$82M flagship site in St. Louis has been cited by some in the industry as the best privately-owned datacenter in the world. We also have very nice spaces in Tokyo, London and SFO, and smaller facilities in Singapore and New York.

And the thing is, you can get a basic config like you're talking about fast and fairly cheap. Less than 10 days if your requirements fit into our standardized "Fast Pack multi-server" offering, up to 30 days otherwise but usually much less than that in reality. And since we own the hardware and all software licenses for the pieces we manage, and you just pay a monthly fee to use it, you're spreading out at least some of your your costs over time. And you get 24/7 proactive monitoring, operations and engineering staff, regular security and performance patches (coordinated with you of course), OS and supported app troubleshooting, etc. etc.

I can go into lots more detail if you're curious, but suffice to say we do a pretty good job. We have a lot of big financial customers who seem to think so anyway.

Our closed loop from the local bell costs $243 a month on a three year contract. Our full (1.5 up/down) costs $750 a month, again on a three year contract signed a little over a year ago. We also had to buy a new router (somewhere around $1800, I can't remember the exact price).

If I shopped for one today, the closed loop price would be the same, but I could get the ISP charge down to about $500 on a three year contract.

If you want to cut out the closed loop charge, see if there's a company like Savvis in your neiborhood. They negotiate for large blocks of closed loop service and run your T-1 through their proprietary switch.

How about real time stock quotes? A few companies have multicast backbones for this sole purpose (e.g., Savvis). Requirement is then to never miss a beat from opening to closing of the market(s). You also end up have to deal with multiple streams that can be very bursty.