Rackshack is using about 1.8GB of bandwidth at peak now, and their traffic is growing about 200 mbit a week. They have 3.2 Gbit total bandwidth. Should I be concerned they will run out of bandwidth or that if just one of their GigEs goes down my site will be unreachable?

I commented some time back (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=320132#post320132) that Rackshack should upgrade their network sometime in late may or early june based on their rate of traffic growth; I seem to recall reading that they were in fact going to do exactly that. (I think it was on the RS forums, which have lost a month of recent posts.)

Can someone from rackshack tell me if I was hallucinating, or was there indeed such an announcement about another gb-E connection coming online soon?

afair they planned on getting a gig-e from Williams Communications ...

Last I heard, they installed mod_gzip on their core routers. This has cut bandwidth use in half!

Originally posted by UmBillyCord
Last I heard, they installed mod_gzip on their core routers. This has cut bandwidth use in half!

Is it possible to install mod_gzip in a router? I thought it should be installed on each server individually.

:laugh: haha gzip

Um.... mod_gzip is an apache server side based program.... I seriously doubt you can do that on a router..

Um.... mod_gzip is an apache server side based program.... I seriously doubt you can do that on a router..

Oppps... I meant mod_gzip(2) - squared. It is the new version.

Originally posted by UmBillyCord


Oppps... I meant mod_gzip(2) - squared. It is the new version.

LOL!

Hey can I get that installed on my home DSL router? I'd love to double my connection speeds. And really, why can't a router compress and decompress packets in real time anyways? :-)

Take care,

Brian

When did they release a new version?

Got a website for it?

You mean you don't know where the website it at? We have it on all of our core routers and we have been able to disconnect our connections and just use ISDN now. ;)

Originally posted by DanielP
When did they release a new version?

Got a website for it?

i am pretty sure they are just kidding around lol

i am pretty sure they are just kidding around lol

Sorry. At least some people got it. :D

Originally posted by UmBillyCord


Sorry. At least some people got it. :D

/me slaps UmBillyCord for not making sure everyone knew it was a joke lol.

/me slaps UmBillyCord for not making sure everyone knew it was a joke lol.

Now what fun would that be? :)

ok fine i take it back.

/me slaps DanielP for not understanding

how is that :D :D

Hey, you *could* do that with a transparent HTTP proxy. You'd probably get people really mad at you, but it would be entirely possible.

hmm. i distinctly remember a month or two ago, someone posting asking about a certain provider (i think time warner), and headsurfer replying negatively about the provider as, the provider has a signed contract with rackshack for a new gig-e (or something like that) and keep delaying the install date, even though the hardware is already in the rackshack NOC.


so, perhaps they're still delayed or negotiating elsewhere?

maybe they'll bring in a yipes pipe!!!!

why not a uunet :)

that would be sweet lol

Originally posted by skylab
hmm. i distinctly remember a month or two ago, someone posting asking about a certain provider (i think time warner), and headsurfer replying negatively about the provider as, the provider has a signed contract with rackshack for a new gig-e (or something like that) and keep delaying the install date, even though the hardware is already in the rackshack NOC.


so, perhaps they're still delayed or negotiating elsewhere?

maybe they'll bring in a yipes pipe!!!!

That was XO ( http://www.xo.com )

and UUNET gigE :eek:


I would prefer a C&W gigE .. but imagen the cost :eek:

who is the most expensive company?

who is the best company ?

how do uunet and Cable and wireless compare to each other?

i wish there was an all about bandwidth site :)

Originally posted by zdwebhosting
who is the most expensive company?

who is the best company ?

how do uunet and Cable and wireless compare to each other?

i wish there was an all about bandwidth site :)

Most expensive ?

Internap i guess

Level3 , C&W , UUNET , Verio and so on - All good

Level3 is a good worldwide provider ..

So is Qwest for me

There all good in there own way IMO

UUnet, att, sprint are the most expensive.


then you have
internap, cw, genuity

then you have

qwest, level3, verio, time warner

Then you have

cogent, williams

Cable and wireless backbone is the original UUNet backbone but the Feds made UUnet give it to CW because MCi/Worldcom was going to buy them. So they are both in my opinion equally as good. Genuity (formerly GTE, formerly BBN Planet) is the first backbone with AS #1.

Originally posted by jayglate
UUnet, att, sprint are the most expensive.


then you have
internap, cw, genuity

then you have

qwest, level3, verio, time warner

Then you have

cogent, williams

Wow ... your so wrong

I am.. Ohh . please enlighten me.

Originally posted by jayglate
I am.. Ohh . please enlighten me.

not you .....

i quoted the person i was talking to :blush:

Edit ... oh that was you :eek: :blush:

OK

Well for one ...

UUNET are less expensive than C&W

Internap i am unsure of .. but the fact they use

UUNET , C&W and so on ... means they are more than likely more expensive that the rest

But you basically have it right .. except the bit about UUNET being in the top group

I believe

Savvis is also expensive

Broadwing is expensive also so i'm told

XO is cheap .. $4k for DS3 i believe ...

Now .. umm Time Warner is about 350k for a gigE

AT&T prices are quoted on their website

it was $200k for a OC12 i think

you quoted me ..:)

Originally posted by jayglate
you quoted me ..:)


YEh i noticed that after i posted the reply :o

oh and

Expensive bandwidth !!

http://www.newnet.co.uk :rolleyes:

Good one reason why i wanna move to the USA :rolleyes:

No, no uunet is about $60-$70 per meg more expensive than CW. Latest pricing, been shopping this for months now. and years in fact. UUnet has always been more expensive than CW.

Jason

Originally posted by utadmin


not you .....

i quoted the person i was talking to :blush:

Edit ... oh that was you :eek: :blush:

OK

Well for one ...

UUNET are less expensive than C&W

Internap i am unsure of .. but the fact they use

UUNET , C&W and so on ... means they are more than likely more expensive that the rest

But you basically have it right .. except the bit about UUNET being in the top group

I believe

Savvis is also expensive

Broadwing is expensive also so i'm told

XO is cheap .. $4k for DS3 i believe ...

Now .. umm Time Warner is about 350k for a gigE

AT&T prices are quoted on their website

it was $200k for a OC12 i think

Sorry ..

i just looked at your sig

I was under the impression that C&W was expensive

How much is UUNET for a OC3 ( in New York ) compaired the C&W

If you have the current prices for bandwidth in New York could u pm me some for the following providers for DS3 or whatever you've got ..

UUNET
Qwest
Verio

But if your shopping around for bandwidth

IMO

Level3 , UUNET , Qwest , Verio , C&W

is the only way to go ..

Although this isn't the price of major fiber, a 3 MBPS colo (their lowest amount) comes out to $2,700 bucks. And you're telling me cable and wireless is more expensive? ;)

From what i know: UUnet is by far the most expensive, followed by sprint, then the other major tier one ISPs.

Internap prices are lower than C&W or Genuity prices.

Savvis does not compare with the ISPs on list.

Originally posted by jayglate
Cable and wireless backbone is the original UUNet backbone but the Feds made UUnet give it to CW because MCi/Worldcom was going to buy them. So they are both in my opinion equally as good. Genuity (formerly GTE, formerly BBN Planet) is the first backbone with AS #1. Not quite, the C&W backbone is the old MCI backbone pre-merger, UUNet was a part of Worldcom pre-merger, they wouldn't have been allowed to merge if they owned (at least at the time if memory serves me correctly) the two largest backbones in the US, and they wanted to keep UUNet, so they sold the old MCI backbone to C&W as part of the merger agreement.

Originally posted by Revelation
Although this isn't the price of major fiber, a 3 MBPS colo (their lowest amount) comes out to $2,700 bucks. And you're telling me cable and wireless is more expensive? ;)

My quote was much less than that :) In fact, you may actually get a half cabinet and 10 mbps of capped bandwith at that price with UUNet ... But that was a quote I got 2 months ago ...

cheers,
:beer: