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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
It would be hard to nail down. THAT... will vary by carrier and their bandwidth contracts.
If he is looking for dedicated pipes (1 to 1 ratio) I would recommend he go to one of the bigger providers serving the NL as they would already have some nice bandwidth available via their commitments.
Many (not all) web hosting companies operate on the shared/VLAN principle. As it's rare that most customers need the 1 to 1 (1 server with 100MBit) ratio and a dedicated pipe when it comes to bandwidth. Most customers want the ability to SPIKE up to a certain level of bandwidth and it not effect performance. They are not chugging along all day at 100MBit.
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We either sell unmetered pipes where you have the capacity guaranteed or a burstable plan where you are on a GigE uplink so you can burst. I think every ISP keeps at least 50% of their total capacity free for bursting, I know we do.
Sharing bandwidth is not so common anymore as it used to be. With the availability of 10GE capacity is not really an issue anymore these days.
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