Consumer level hosting, meet Slashdot Effect.

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

So .. when someone sets up a web page with a fairly long video on it on their consumer level friends-n-family type hosting service, and this video's content leads to it getting posted on Drudge, and they get a half a million hits on the page and take up a significant portion of the whole server's data traffic, and their page gets shut down .. the correct response to this is:

• a) Mirror the video content on a site that can handle the traffic, and link/embed it on the weakie hosting page


• b) Migrate the site to a real hosting service


• c) Call the tech support for the computer it was composed on and gripe at them about it

Evidently the answer is c) ..

What got my point across was having the content author multiply the size of the video content by the number of hits he was getting, and then tell him about how big an OC12 is. Light came on about that point.

Thankfully, HTML composition and enterprise level site design is way outside the scope of the calls I answer .. :)

Comments

[xforge.livejournal.com]

the correct response to this is:

d) Matt Drudge is an asshole. But never mind that. = )

[shirenomad]

But shooting Matt Drudge will not make the OC12 bigger!

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

lol, i keep tabs on drudge a lot, which vid?!?!
i'm guessing... tornado one recently?

they shoulda had it on youtube...

[brothersterno.livejournal.com]

yeah, if you're gonna post something which is beyond your cat meowing, youtube's bandwidth is a lot cheaper than your hosting company's.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

DEFINATELY

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

so glad i moved up from internet tech support to hardware/software support

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

And this is why my company doesn't even allow such things.