Internet Today (Advanced or Newbie)
Issue #1
Why the rock bottom bandwidth prices and are they stable?
Answer: First let's look at low prices.. Internet Exchanges are places where ISP's connect and trade bandwidth without the cost of purchasing bandw
idth. Imangine this scenario.... A very large ISP (Website Visitors) drops a fiber line to a hosting provider (Adult Conent). The result is this, o
ut the OUTGOING bandwidth gets sent directly to the users bypassing any middleman such as UUNET or AT&T. Thus no bills for the traffic. Anyway, let
your mind run on this..
Now let's look at stability of a network.... fixedorbitDOTcom (this is not spam) is one of the places you can to gather information about a hosting c
ompany. let's enter myhostingcompany.com This will show you how many AS numbers they are connectd with. TECH NOTE (BGP uses AS Numbers to find best
routes) if two people are connected with bgp it will show this information. Now you know who and how many people your hosting company is DIRECTLY Co
nnected to. This means a piece of wire or fiber between one of thier routers and the AS they are peering with. The more your hosting company has the
better your chance are people will be see your webpage 24/7.(THIS DOES NOT SHOW YOU HOSTING COMPANIES NETWORK LAYOUT [IMPORTANT] Now let's look at S
erver Stability, A large hosting provider has MANY servers, most of your problems will arise here. Can they handle your needs... Well let's look at
your needs... Are you doing a lot of databasing???? Well if so, you better learn about AGGREGATION and DYNAMICvsSTATIC Display. This is what makes
or breaks a database.. I'll write more on this later.... If your just pushing pages, I wouldn't worry to much. Next study your hosting companies N
etwork Layout. You can do this using tracerouteDOTcom. Now you can track paths to your hosting companies network and see how well they are laid out
.. Trace them from as many places as possible and store the info in an excel spread sheat... Compare all the information and you'll know who and wher
e they are connected.. I am not giving away how yet..... That would be by ethernet, fiber, what are the limits on the line... Now you KNOW somethi
ng about your hosting company.
Issue #2
Bulk Mailers and what they can do to you website!
Answer: Bulk mailers can get you hosting company into trouble, ISP's will block thier IP Ranges from thier mail server so you can't get mail! Make it
difficult to have customer service if they can't mail you... How to gather this info.. Well MAPS is a paid service that ISP's can sign thier mailser
vers to control who is spamming and who isn't.. Check to see if you Hosting company is on the REALTIME BLACKHOLE LIST. If they are there, be assured
you will have mail problems.... maps is at mail-abuse.org
Issue #3
Market Saturation
Answer: TRAFFIC TRAFFIC TRAFFIC
The BEST way to increase revenues is to increase TRAFFIC. The only way to tell if it works is to install a cookie type tracking system to see if you
are making money from your advertising source... Let's look at a tgp listing link...
http://mygallerypage.com/june01?tgpsitename
Now break this down... mygallerypage.com[site] june01[directoryforthatgallery](track what girls sell this way by day) ?tgpsitename[Varible information to pass telling you if this person signs up where they saw you at!!! Now you have traffic quality control.. However just because a link doesn't se
ll doesn't mean tgp traffic sucks... It means you don't know how to sell on it... or HIGHER LISTINGS DO SELL, getting a low listing is just going t
o burn your bandwidth bills up.. Unless you found a good freehost to push galleries off of.... You can also do this with your paid search engine tra
ffic....
:-) Just remember to smile and have fun at this....
Oh yeah and Server Stabilty is a very complex topic, so I'll give you a few case studies....
Mirrored Server. Simply put why have just one server, doesn't cost much to store a second server on the wire... Have Server 1 RSYNC to Server 2 ever
y hour...... (Rsync is a tool commonly used is UNIX to sync data between servers) If your first server ever dies, bind the ip to the second and traf
fic will instantly appear on the second server....just remember change the ip on the first server!
DNS RoundRobin. 4 Servers. 3 Server WEB and 1 for centralizing your databases to. Add a .htpasswd copy feature that runs every minute and let your
servers sync every 5 minutes.... Just sync you WWW files directory. If one webserver fails bind ip to second and your up and running again. Also re
member to sync you database server to the other 3 to take over his functions in the event of him dying!!! Very nice for CPU intesive sites.... I hav
e pushed 90Mbps on a single server (Cat 5)(Pushing Video Clips) and over 350Mbps on single server using (FIBER) I was running backups of a server far
m....(ALL HAVE VERY MINIMAL LATENCY, basically a web user would see a fast site.
Clustering Configuration... I am not even going to touch this here... I could write for days..... ;-)
Anyway I'm stupid, I don't even know why my mother let me live..... but I'll be around for a little if anyone wants to ask some questions or tell me
to gofuckmyself... and don't yell at me for my spelling!
We can alway chat about how modrewrite is a gallery posters best friend....