Blogcritics Comments on Bandwidth Burns Author

Comment by san on Bandwidth Burns Author

Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:52:36 EDT

He caught a break: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58400,00.html

Comment by san on Bandwidth Burns Author

Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:31:00 EST

Michelle, I can't disagree that with a 23 MB download up there, he should have been monitoring his bandwidth. I check mine once in awhile, even though they have no real need to.

Comment by Steve Rhodes on Bandwidth Burns Author

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:33:51 EST

That happened to Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow) just do to the increased traffic on his site. He writes about it a ways down under feb. 19th. He got hit with a bandwidth penalty of $3,800 by earthlink and was able to negotiation them down and pay for it with donations to his site. He also moved to another hosting service (though his cost will double to about $2400 a year).

Comment by Michelle on Bandwidth Burns Author

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:00:07 EST

My provider has this option. You just fill in the max bandwidht and once the site is over this limit it shuts down. Makes me sleep better. On the other hand, you can control what traffic you have via your statistics. So at one point (surely *before* the 250GB, that's a hell of a lot of traffic) Mr. Fleischmann should have realized that A LOT of people are downloading his book. Then he could have taken the download offline to decrease damage. Easy as that. So if you aren't able to check your statistics you have to pay the bill. Simple as that.

Comment by san on Bandwidth Burns Author

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:35:20 EST

Murphy, I think he is, via Paypal and the like. I think his hosting service should give him a break on the whole bill. Or reduce the charges only to any out-of-pocket expenses incurred by his hosting service in order to maintain their services under the heavy load. Like the way telcos forgave your first round of 1-900 calls when that calling service was in vogue. This brings up a new issue. Should hosting services offer a bandwidth cap alert? A service option that shuts down your site at your monthly bandwidth limit until you specifically go in and authorize the overage?

Comment by murphy on Bandwidth Burns Author

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:07:34 EST

He should do a Savekaryn thing and get people to help him pay for it.