on rackspace; what does it mean when they advertise 30 GB burstable bandwidth? I'm new, so I'm not sure what this means. Isnt this a low figure for a hosting company with lots of clients? Also, whats the difference (IN BANDWIDTH) between this 30 gig burstable and 400 GB/mo. from rackshack?

That is pretty low. I would recommend going with Rackshack and getting that 400GB of bandwidth, rather than trying to burst 30GB of bandwidth. A reseller account would be something most likely to get 30GB of bandwidth.

As I just responded in another thread, that burstable bandwidth means that there is more available to you once that mark is reached. Due to the expense of Rackspace bandwith, we prepay an extra 300 GB across the network to get it a dollar lower that the $3.50 normal rate per GB.

Burtstable bandwidth means you can transfer at the fastest rate that the network will support at the time,.

As with Rackspace, you are billed for the quantity of data you transfer, instead of being given a constant speed that you are throttled (limited) to.

Most data centers either bill by quantity of data transfer or they make an average of your speed over the month. In either case, you have lots of bandwidth speed available to you at any given moment.

Originally posted by sloop
Burtstable bandwidth means you can transfer at the fastest rate that the network will support at the time,.

As with Rackspace, you are billed for the quantity of data you transfer, instead of being given a constant speed that you are throttled (limited) to.

Most data centers either bill by quantity of data transfer or they make an average of your speed over the month. In either case, you have lots of bandwidth speed available to you at any given moment.

say I have a 3 gig file. does it mean that it would only be able to be downloaded 10 times?

Once you reach the limit, you just keep on going. Overage is calculated at the end of the month.

i know that rackspace is really good and they have a great reputation for being up, but how do hosts using them stay in business with such a low cost to profit ratio (you can get so much more bandwidth at another provider, and im sure you can find another provider with good reliablity )

because hosts that use rackspace sell their reliability, they dont go chopping off blocks to every bottom feeder around, and most established businesses will pay for quality, they know quality costs money, but also makes money :). Theres tons of other great hosts that are a balance in between of course.

[misread. edited]

Originally posted by silversurfer
Burstable bandwidth means usually what's the maximum speed you can or allowed to reach. For example, rackshack officially allows you to burst up to 100mbit/s (Please don't reply saying you can't reach that speeds....), or unitedcolo allows you to burst up to 10mbit/s for most of their plans. Therefore on top of the bandwidth allowed a month under your package (be it 300-400gb), they capped the maximum traffic that's allowed from your machine at any one time. In your case, Rackspace caps it at 30mbit/s.


Uhhhh,

Rackspace caps at 30mbps? Rackspace comes with 30gb/mo on a 100mbps link last i checked.

uh... my bad.. I misread... thought the poster mentioned 30mb/s .... my mistake

Originally posted by fusion


say I have a 3 gig file. does it mean that it would only be able to be downloaded 10 times?

It says 30GB brustable data transfer not download. Transfer includes inbound and outbound.

:D

Burstable means that you can exceed that. However, there's an overage charge per gb.