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Re: Bandwidth estimation question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Sat Oct 3 22:25:36 2015

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To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com>
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 19:25:28 -0700
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/3/15 6:04 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:04:50 -0700, JoeSox said:
>=20
>> Does anyone know how much traffic a 'media blitz' (for lack of a bette=
r
>> word) generates?

Disclaimer I work for a CDN of but I'm a former consumer of such
services as well.

if you have recourse to a CDN it can be farily straight forward to shift
the serving of resources to or away from it in reponse to demand. if you
have an existing setup with a CDN, control of your DNS, reasonably short
TTLs, and decent seperation of resource names from the physical machines
on which they reside this can be done without anticipation, rather quickl=
y.

It's cheap and easy enough to experiment with a least some of these
services that you can experiment with them for little or sometimes no
cost prior to employing them.

joel

> We had a tragic incident on campus in 2007.  Our dual 1G's died right
> away, and we hurried to deploy an in-progress 10G link install that day=
, and
> *that* barely kept up with the hits even when we stripped the webpage d=
own
> to about 20K of static text.
>=20
> Unfortunately for humanity and fortunately for your bandwidth budget,
> a peace price is unlikely to generate as much traffic as tragedy.
>=20



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