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Monster Bandwidth for a Month?

Posted by Cliff on from the better-billing-options dept.

ourcoolroom asks: "I work for a small regional ISP and we are facing a problem which I'm sure anyone who has tried to read a slashdotted article is well aware of. There are times when a large amount of bandwidth is needed for a short period of time. In our case, a few years ago we had a little 250kB Shockwave Christmas card developed. Any suggestions for hosting something that needs a pile of bandwidth for only 4 weeks or so a year would be appreciated." "We weren't particularly impressed with the results so we didn't distribute it, but we did have it on a sub-domain of our website. It sat around for a year or so, and then about the first week of December all of our data circuits were buried. Apparently a link to the card had started to make its way around in an email. We were able to find a place to host the Shockwave file last year, and towards Christmas transferred around 230GB a day just of the Shockwave file. We don't really stand to make any profit so we can't put a huge bankroll on this project, but we would like to have it up for holiday goodwill (that and it's really cool for a company our size to have a page with over 1,000,000 hits/day). We have thought about distributed downloading via BitTorrent, etc, but we feel many of the people who would view the card would not be that savvy."

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  1. Do the AOL thing... by ForestGrump · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pass out CDs.

    *runs away*

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    Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
  2. Where's the link? by sabNetwork · · Score: 3, Funny

    Link? :)

    -

  3. Re:Oh The Humanity! by Lord+Kano · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hello Akamai. We're slashdot. We're here to make love to your bandwidth.

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  4. Re:There are lots of webhosting places by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Video you say... Women involved?
    [clicks on link to http://www.seinman.net/