Skydivingmovies.com is back, better than ever

[mcrocker 0]

Hey everyone,

The new www.skydivingmovies.com server is up and running. The new server is a P4,3.0 Ghz HT CPU with 1 Gig RAM and 200Gig Drive.

I have also increased the bandwidth from 3mpbs to 10mbps. Go in and test it out :)

Lets see if you can fill up 30mbps!

Thanks for the donations to make this possible

-Matt

edit: Just for fun I bumped the bandwidth limit up from 10 (which I did weeks ago) to 30mbps. 30mbps = $3000/month in bandwidth!

[Spatula 0]

Holy shit that's fast!!! ROCK ON!

[popsjumper 2]

Allow me one quesion...why the need to register to view the movies?

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[mcrocker 0]

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Allow me one quesion...why the need to register to view the movies?

I don't design the site, I just provide the hardware and the bandwidth. PilotDave designed the site. The registration requirement is to limit the amount of linking that is going on. We had a popular website deep link directly into a movie last year and it melted the machine. The machine was trying to push 100mbps

I think I'm going to work on a site redesign, I'm not a PHP/HTML/SQL wizard so it will take me a while

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Allow me one quesion...why the need to register to view the movies?

to avoid abuse. Also helps in tracking and reviews too

Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?

[repeter 0]

$9000??
fdcservers offers unmetered 1gbit for $999 a month..

[Ashtanga 0]

What do you need to download to view the movies?

[Fast 0]

How many gigs a month are we using up on this sucker?

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[Cornholio 0]

I have to agree here... $300/meg is called RAPE, unless you're also factoring cage/rack costs. Still that's way too high. I'd find a new host.

I work for a small ISP and (in our Equinix datacenter) we get our bandwidth between $40-140/Mb/month depending on who we peer with (level3, above.net, ATT, HE, GC, AOL, etc... All the top tiers are connected here)

And repeter - There is no such thing as unlimited read the fine print.

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$9000??
fdcservers offers unmetered 1gbit for $999 a month..

HAHAHA, yeah just try to use 1gbps for $999 and see how long they keep you as a customer. Even with Cogent (dirt cheap bandwidth) you will pay $30,000/month for a 1 gigabit link ($30/mbps).

My math was wrong, it is actually $3000 (had $300/mbps in my head when it is actually $100/mbps).

And you are thinking TRANSFER not bits per second. 1gb/month is only like 500bps averaged through the month (500 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 = 1.3gb)

30mbps sustained through a month is 77 MILLION gigabits.

A $999/month website won't support skydivingmovies.com. Dave tried that before I came in to help. Everyplace he tried that had 'unlimited' bandwidth shut him down as soon as he started to use it.

Trust me on this one, skydivingmovies.com uses a LOT of bandwidth and costs significant amounts of money to keep running. I have 30mbps to spare on my network so it isn't a big deal. If/when my bandwidth gets tight I'll dial the server back to a more reasonable level.

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I have to agree here... $300/meg is called RAPE, unless you're also factoring cage/rack costs. Still that's way too high. I'd find a new host.

Yep, I was thinking wrong, I had 3mbps in my head, then 30mbps and $100/mbps/month and I multiplied them all together. My cost is $100/mbps delivered to my datacenter.

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I work for a small ISP and (in our Equinix datacenter) we get our bandwidth between $40-140/Mb/month depending on who we peer with (level3, above.net, ATT, HE, GC, AOL, etc... All the top tiers are connected here)

I own a regional ISP/CLEC and own a $1Million datacenter at 1 Federal Street, Springfield MA. We would be similiar to Equinix but not nearly as big. I pay $100/mbps/month which includes the loop, most of my providers are in my space aready, some I have to haul in on my own OC-48 SONET ring. I also have Cisco 12000 routers, UPS, HVAC, Generator ... to deal with. I'm not complaining, I love my company/work. I just laugh when people compare this to a $9.95 all you can eat crap webhost.

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And repeter - There is no such thing as unlimited read the fine print.

Exactly, just ask PilotDave how many times he went to an 'unlimited' web host and was shut down in a day because he used too much bandwidth.

SDM was maxing out a 3mbps link that I had rate-limited. 3mbps is 7 million gigabits/month. Can I charge you guys $0.001/gigabit ($7k/month). With the new server and the new bandwidth I'll be interested to see how much it uses now.