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RE: iglu on slashdot
- To: <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- Subject: RE: iglu on slashdot
- From: "Haim Gelfenbeyn" <rnews(at-nospam)hageltech.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:26:47 +0300
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <m3n18fvs99.fsf@erwin.comgates.co.il>
- Organization: Hagel Technologies
- Reply-To: <haim(at-nospam)hageltech.com>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
The attitude of ISPs (and especially Israeli ISPs) drives me absolutely
nuts. (maybe because I was burned by it in the past). I won't mention
any names here, because they are not important. The story was:
1. I had my site hosted on some ISP. That ISP had in its "service
agreement" clause that said they can stop their service at will. All
ISPs in Israel I know about have similar things in their service
agreements.
2. My site was linked from popular news site, what brought some serious
traffic, and in less then 3 hours my site went down. What ISP said was
"we don't care about you, we don't want your money (I proposed to pay
extra just to keep the site online), we can refund you what remains of
your payment for this month". End of story.
3. Now I host with different provider (in the US), and there were times
when my site got 8GB/day traffic (dynamic and static content). What thay
say is "our servers reliability is our problem, not yours. We will bill
you accordingly, but our servers won't be down because of your traffic.
You do not need to contact us about your site's traffic. We will
contact you if there's overcharge".
So I think this is Actcom's job to ensure that their network, routers
and servers are up to their job, and monitor it 24x7 for possible
problems. Anything less is incompetence on their side.
Just my 2c,
Haim.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ogoldshmidt@comgates.co.il
> [mailto:ogoldshmidt@comgates.co.il] On Behalf Of Oleg Goldshmidt
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:57 PM
> To: guy keren
> Cc: Chen Shapira; linux-il@linux.org.il
> Subject: Re: iglu on slashdot
>
>
> guy keren <choo@actcom.co.il> writes:
>
> > this wasn't a normal slashdot post. it was an intended test.
>
> Even so, the resulting hits were normal for /. There was no traffic
> generated on purpose.
>
> > not everybody places a file on their server and then posts
> a message to
> > slashdot. :0
>
> You mean, not everybody who creates a web page advertises is on /.?
> Granted, but so many of them hope that someone will post the
> link there.
>
> > no, but there's a clause regarding ammount of traffic under the
> > contract... and since we got this service for free, we
> should try not to
> > abuse it.
>
> Don't read me wrong - I have no objections to co-ordinating with
> actcom. But certainly I cannot control the rate of download requests
> outside. I have not read the actcom's (or anyone's) contract, but I
> would tend to think that actcom reserves the right to limit the amount
> of traffic to/from my server, using their own means. But I don't think
> that "we are shutting your server down, it's too popular" is
> reasonable.
>
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
> "I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
>
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