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From: Wallace Winfrey <wally@booyaka.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:08:55 -0600
quoted 11 lines Rusty Hodge wrote:
>Rusty Hodge wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Unless you're using Amazon S3 for file distribution, which anyone for
>whom download bandwidth is a major issue should be looking into.
>
>I switched my employer's downloads from our site to S3 and we
>immediately started saving $5,000/month in bandwidth fees.
i didn't notice if this went to the list, but someone else posted this fansite article:
http://www.ateaseweb.com/2007/10/14/the-secret-behind-in-rainbows-
speedy-download/
it mentioned the company they used is called packetexchange. haven't seen an
actual price sheet (they may or may not be in the downloadable PDFs), but here's
the services they offer:
http://www.packetexchange.net/content/products.htm
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