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Originally Posted by nmcog
Combine all the hosting companies like Webair, Jupiter, NatNet, Isprime and it won't match ThePlanet's size  |
Oh Please.
The Planet's graphs are public. The adult hosts' graphs aren't. ThePlanet is doing approx 13.5 Gbits aggregate. If you really think NatNet and ISPrime (forgettign Webair and Jupiter) aren't doing >20 gbits combined, you're deluding yourself. I don't know how big Webair and Jupiter is, but if I had to guess, the aggregate total of all 4 (Webair, Jupiter, NatNet, ISPrime) is 30-40Gbits.
Also, 13.5/4 = 3.375 Gbits. Whatever you "think" the hosts are doing, if you think that they're smaller than 3.375 gbits you're on crack. For example, NatNet hosts ConsumptionJunction. That alone is probably >3gbits.
Further:
http://www.isprime.com/index.html
Read the top article. ISPrime has recently upgraded their network to have 35gbits of capacity (and you may or may not see a new announcement when their upgrades are complete and bring them to 45gbits of capacity fairly soon), Use your best judgement to figure out why that would be. Using >50% of your network capacity is risking outages, using <25% is wasting money. The answer lies somewhere between those lines.
(that being said, you can look at these graphs and see that theplanet is running >50% on many (most?) of their uplinks)
http://www.theplanet.com/datacenter.html
About halfway down they have "Network Infrastructure"
As a fun example:
http://www.theplanet.com/image.html?...rovider=Level3
927Mbits at peak on a Gig-E (which in real-world usage maxes out at about 950-960Mbits).
On top of all of that, *WHO CARES* who is bigger? Do you really think that it's better to be with a "huge" host that is down, than a small host that is up?
Also, ThePlanet's main business is in low end hosting, many of the adult hosts have plans that *start* at >$100/mo. Why be surprised when a low-end host has problems?