[184445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bandwidth estimation question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Notmatt Pleaseignore)
Sat Oct 3 11:44:41 2015
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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 00:15:44 -0400
From: Notmatt Pleaseignore <networkhood@gmail.com>
To: Tom Sands <tsands@rackspace.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Would cloudflare caching (free tier?) help in this case? Maybe easier than
upgrades for short time traffic bump.
On 2 Oct 2015 23:47, "Tom Sands" <tsands@rackspace.com> wrote:
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> There is no telling how big a flash crowd might be. I've see them jump in
> the Gbps range and not Mbps.
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> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:06 PM, JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to figure out if our hosting plan has enough bandwidth
> > (currently at 15Mbps, our average webpage is 300kb).
> > One of our members may win a peace prize for scientific work so there may
> > be a media blitz.
> > Does anyone know how much traffic a 'media blitz' (for lack of a better
> > word) generates?
> > I can bump it to 50Mbps but I am not even sure if that is enough.
> >
> > --
> > Thank You, Joe
>
