[SunRescue] Question...

[Kevin Loch]

That 5GB/month will increase big time if you add a bunch of scans.

Brickshelf pushes 8-10GB per day.  It's hosted at work.  We will be
moving our servers to a colo soon and replacing our current T1
with a burstable T3.  You could send me a box for now but
I'd be a little concerned about when we move to the T3, since
we could get bumped to higher bandwidth bracket if things get out
of hand.

Have you asked Sun if they would help with hosting?  I approached
LEGO and they offered space in their main colo cage.  I haven't needed
to take them up on that yet :)

KL

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> (asking geeks and rescue about this because I know you guys will
>  give me good opinions)
> 
> Would you guys object to a short 1 or 2-line sponsorship message
> at the bottom of each email from the rescue/geeks/sunhelp lists?
> 
> I'm asking because I *might* do that in case I have to start paying
> more for bandwidth soon - I did some mail stats and they're a lot
> larger than what I thought I was doing.  Here's the past 12 hours:
> 
> Postfix log summaries for May 24
> 
> Grand Totals
> ------------
> messages
> 
>    2499   received
>   62425   delivered
>      40   forwarded
>     648   deferred  (2611  deferrals)
>       8   bounced
>       3   rejected
> 
>   11684k  bytes received
>  224367k  bytes delivered
>     179   senders
>     128   sending hosts/domains
>    3811   recipients
>    2764   recipient hosts/domains
> 
> Per-Hour Traffic Summary
>     time          received  delivered   deferred    bounced     rejected
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------
>     0000-0100          64       1058         58          0          0
>     0100-0200          87       1715        232          0          1
>     0200-0300          34        529        195          0          0
>     0300-0400         372       6873        248          0          0
>     0400-0500         166       9135        213          0          0
>     0500-0600          75       1362        229          0          0
>     0600-0700          94       2483        266          0          0
>     0700-0800         160       3762        151          0          0
>     0800-0900         273       6784        232          1          0
>     0900-1000         294       8256        252          1          1
>     1000-1100         429       8340        292          2          0
>     1100-1200         389      11474        239          4          1
>     1200-1300          62        654          4          0          0
> 
> That means I'm doing at *least* 500 megabytes/day of nothing but email
> traffic - in addition to about 5 gigabytes/month of web traffic.  That
> means that this machine is pushing quite a bit of bandwidth.  I may not
> be pushing 10megabits, but its consistent, and it adds up...  Right now I
> get a discounted colocation price from my ISP in exchange for system admin
> work and referrals (I used to be their head admin).
> 
> Thoughts?  I'm not in immediate danger of having to start charging for
> things (that would be the last thing I would do - I'd shut the site
> down if I had to do that), but if I have to start paying more for
> bandwidth, corporate sponsorships of the lists might be an option.
> 
> I'd just like to get your opinions..
> 
> Bill
> 
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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