quoted 5 lines i'm not privy to exact numbers, especially not in england, or with> i'm not privy to exact numbers, especially not in england, or with
> whatever special deal they probably struck up. all i know is 2
> years ago i discussed the ISP/bandwidth issue with the webmaster of
> one of their biggest fansites and he was getting hit hard. i'd
> imagine the official site would have similar issues.
If they sold 1.2 million copies in a week, that's an average of 2 per
second. At 160 Kbps MP3 assuming arox 50 minutes album duration
that's 480 Megabits per album or an average download rate of 0.95
Gbits per second. In the US, you can get a 1gb/sec connection for
$10-12,000 US a month.
If your ISP is charging you mer megabyte or gigabyte transferred, and
not mbit/sec (or gbit/sec), you are paying WAY TOO MUCH for bandwidth
if you're transferring over 20 gigabytes a month.
It's easy to assume that RH's distribution system was costing them
$15-20,000 a month (including renting a few servers and the bandwidth
cost).
Bandwidth is cheap, if you buy it in the right places, but it's sure
not free.
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