Ok I can't resist I gotta share this log from my #help IRC channel:

<CeLe101> Hello.
<Ortwin> Can we help you with something?>
<CeLe101> Yes, I was wondering what you guys sell exactly....
<Ortwin> Web hosting services for websiste.
<Ortwin> for websites.
<CeLe101> Do you sell hosting as large as 1 terabyte?
<Ortwin> 1 terabyte of disk space?
<CeLe101> Correct.
<CeLe101> My site's take up around that size...
<CeLe101> They are currently down because I haven't found a host, my old host is now gone.
<Ortwin> And what amount of bandwidth does a 1tb site take up?
<CeLe101> A few tarabytes...
<Ortwin> You use a few terrabytes of bandwidth also?
<CeLe101> maybe 30000 gb
<Ortwin> Thirty thousand GB of bandwidth. Hmmmm...
<Ortwin> and you hosted this with whom?
<CeLe101> iCiD
<CeLe101> He's a personal friend.
<CeLe101> He owns a datacenter in chicogo I belive
<CeLe101> but he sold it
<Ortwin> And he had a hosting company?
<CeLe101> No. He just had a few servers that he let me use
<Ortwin> what was it's name? I'm in Chicago.
<CeLe101> I have no idea, I knew him on MSN, He just gave me the FTP pw and control pannel
<CeLe101> And I was happy
<CeLe101> Than he said he sold it so I was like hmm...
<Ortwin> That's a fairly large site CeLe101.
<CeLe101> I know him by the alias of iCiD
<CeLe101> Well, 200$ a month?

A comment I made in staff only chat:


<Ortwin> Gary.....i need to defer to you.
<Gary> this is a joke $10 says the log of the chat appears somewhere trying to poke fun at us later

Well I suppose I was right about it being posted on a forum somewhere :D

I'm still curious about the site(s) that use 30 terabytes of bandwidth per month. That's like heck I dunno what that's like, when I worked for a dot com that site only pushed 1.x terabytes and that was pretty hardcore, 100+ load balanced WinNT servers (ugh don't ask) were required (ok required might be the wrong word but that's what they had) for that amount of load we had a 1.2 tb netapp for storage (well 600 gb mirrored for 1.2 of raw space). That's by far the largest web site I've dealt with personally.

Only websites I can think can push something close to that would be porn websites...

or warez

I want his friends to offer packages like that for free.

If you're selling 30TB hosting packages at anywhere close to $200/mo, feel free to give me a call ;).

maybe he was the owner of FilePlanet :D

That's a hell of a personal friend that would just give him the FTP info and allow him to run this kind of site free of charge.

Boris

I want friends like that :bawling:

Andrew

Dixie, I hope your gonna pay Gary his $10. ;)

Originally posted by NetHosted-Andrew
I want friends like that :bawling:

Andrew

Hehe, let me know if you find some :)

Originally posted by Dixiesys

Well I suppose I was right about it being posted on a forum somewhere :D

:evilb:

Hmm.. from the conversation, I picked up the following.

He has multiple websites
-- <CeLe101> My site's take up around that size...

He used multiple servers
-- <CeLe101> No. He just had a few servers that he let me use

If a few were say at most 5, and at fewest 3, lets do the math on 100 base-t NIC's


100mbps * 60seconds * 60minutes * 24hours * 30days / 8bits per byte / 1024mbytes in a gigabyte = approx 31640gigs per month.

That is just one 100 base-t card going full for a month. The best you can expect to get out of that is 80% efficiency constantly in a real world environment.

So, with at most 5 servers : each server would be pushing 20mbps constantly

With at fewest 3 servers: each server would be pushing 33mbps constantly.

With both of these figures, these are attainable bandwidth rates, but to attain these rates legally, (no warez), he would have to be a mirror for a big file site (fileplanet/cdrom.com etc), have quite a few porn sites (which would require high speed SCSI drives to keep up with page requests for all the smaller files) Or do streaming video/audio.

In any case, this is a realistic client situation. I know that the owner of the local ISP gave all his local family members actual T1 Connections to their homes, which they normally charge $800/mo for. (True 1.5 up/down with the SLA). So if this 'friend' of his was the owner of a DC in Chicago, it is quite possible that this friend let him have a couple spare servers that were empty, and let him use up unused bandwidth that they were already paying for. He either sold it, or the guy started using too much bandwidth, and the friend didn't want to host him anymore.

Then again, this could be just some guy pulling a prank pre-sales call.

Interesting story Gary. Thanks for sharing it! :)

30TB... LOL

You should have directed him to one of those unlimited space/bandwidth reseller accounts for $9 a year.

I dont mind paying $200 for 10TB.
:D

Originally posted by Amdac
You should have directed him to one of those unlimited space/bandwidth reseller accounts for $9 a year.

$9 that'd be an expensive one! Go for the $1 ones they're the best ;)

Andrew

MSN/Yahoo/AOL/etc may use up around 10000x that a day. :P Who knows..

Sounded like a filesharing community LOL!

Those servers must use the new Dorito ship to keep up with the load of the site(s)

Sounds like warez or a joke to me :)

The Chicago datacenter was probably FDC

Yeah I figured it was someone from WHT wanting to post a funny :)

30tb that's big league bandwidth, the dot com I worked for had a pretty popular site (www.healthcentral.com) and we only did 1.6 tb per month.

Well, he did say 'sites' and 'servers' so my guess is the 30tb is across multiple servers.