A site often mentioned ...........
Frederick Smith
smitty at pcrealm.net
Thu Dec 20 07:34:23 EST 2001
on the Audifans list closes. Too many hits,,bandwidth expenses. Interesting
article about the demise of "Advritic" at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/business/media/20ADCO.html?todaysheadlines
Basically, after last years Super Bowl they had 1.8 million hits in 24 hours,
resulting in the downloading of 12 TERABYTES of data (or more than half of the
entire Library of Congress). Their host discounted the normal $120,00K fee
to a meer $24,000.
I guess the lesson here is not to put anything great on your personal
website, or if you do, don't tell anyone about it.
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