hat not really fair you comparing some small ISP to a probebly big one
a small isp can't handle a lot of traffic even if they really want to
and the payment they need to support such bandwidth is much more than you
can pay for.
or would pay for anyhow..
ask big israeli isp and you'll get the same as the usa one
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote:
>
> The attitude of ISPs (and especially Israeli ISPs) drives me absolutely
> nuts. (maybe because I was burned by it in the past). I won't mention
> any names here, because they are not important. The story was:
>
> 1. I had my site hosted on some ISP. ThatISP had in its "service
> agreement" clause that said they can stop their service at will. All
> ISPs in Israel I know about have similar things in their service
> agreements.
> 2. My site was linked from popular news site, what brought some serious
> traffic, and in less then 3 hours my site went down. What ISP said was
> "we don't care about you, we don't want your money (I proposed to pay
> extra just to keep the site online), we can refund you what remains of
> your payment for this month". End of story.
> 3.Now I host with different provider (in the US), and there were times
> when my site got 8GB/day traffic (dynamic and static content). What thay
> say is "our servers reliability is our problem, not yours. We will bill
> you accordingly, but our servers won't be down because of your traffic.
> You do notneed to contact us about your site's traffic. We will
> contact you if there's overcharge".
>
> So I think this is Actcom's job to ensure that their network, routers
> and servers are up to their job, and monitor it 24x7 for possible
> problems. Anything less is incompetence on their side.
>
> Just my 2c,
> Haim.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Oleg Goldshmidt
> > Sent: Monday,May 14, 2001 6:57 PM
> > To: guy keren
> > Cc: Chen Shapira; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: iglu on slashdot
> >
> >
> > guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > this wasn't a normal slashdot post. it was an intended test.
> >
> > Even so, the resulting hits were normal for /. There was no traffic
> > generated on purpose.
> >
> > > not everybody places a file on their server and then posts
> > a message to
> > > slashdot. :0
> >
> > You mean, not everybody who creates a web page advertises is on /.?
> > Granted, but so many of them hope that someone will post the
> > link there.
> >
> > > no, but there's a clause regarding ammount of traffic under the
> > > contract... and since we got this service for free, we
> > should try not to
> > > abuse it.
> >
> > Don't read me wrong - I have no objections to co-ordinating with
> > actcom. But certainly I cannot control the rate of download requests
> > outside. I have not read the actcom's (or anyone's) contract, but I
> > would tend to think that actcom reservesthe right to limit the amount
> > of traffic to/from my server, using their own means. But I don't think
> > that "we are shutting your server down, it's too popular" is
> > reasonable.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
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