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10-15-2009, 10:43 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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Back at Rackspace?
Seems like WHT is back at Rackspace again! :O
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10-15-2009, 10:44 AM #2Retired Moderator
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Yup. Its been that way for a few weeks now I believe.
Alex
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10-15-2009, 10:52 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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Cool. But I wonder, why don't WHT just stay at SoftLayer?
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10-15-2009, 11:23 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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All of our servers have been at Rackspace; we only moved to SoftLayer to isolate WHT after the hack. SL could get the servers online quickly so I picked up the four servers from them. Once the compromised servers were rebuilt at RS and we were confident that WHT had been secured we took the steps to move the site back over to RS.
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10-15-2009, 11:32 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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10-15-2009, 11:39 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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We lease/rent servers from Rackspace. The move back to Rackspace happened a couple of weeks ago; things were running well at SoftLayer so I just wasn't in a great hurry to move things around once again. The additional cost of hosting off site wasn't terribly high so a quick move out and back in wasn't really necessary. Besides we had a lot of other irons in the fire at iNET so the priority wasn't moving back in.
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10-16-2009, 11:09 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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10-16-2009, 11:12 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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10-16-2009, 11:49 PM #9Aspiring Evangelist
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I'd bet it's less than you think. 80% gzip compression on this pageview
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10-17-2009, 11:06 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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10-17-2009, 11:17 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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http://webhostingtalk.com is gzipped
Original Size: 99.34 KB
Gzipped Size: 18.03 KB
Data Savings: 81.85%
That's pretty amazing, an 81.85% compression :O
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10-19-2009, 11:37 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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Well it's complicated to get a handle on exactly how much just WHT consumes per month since we have so much gear. But when we were on just SoftLayer the two front facing web servers used about 460GB of transfer a month each. Plus we are using a CDN for images and I would assume about 100GB there.
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Wow! That is quite interesting
I would have suspected more but with the high level of compression it just goes to show even the biggest sites don't need that much bandwidth!█ Daniel | Server Complete, LLC
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10-19-2009, 02:32 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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10-20-2009, 03:06 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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10-20-2009, 01:22 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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WHT's Alexa rank is 1,950
If you look at all of our sites we push around 4TB a month before moving several large sites to a CDN. I don't normally check our bandwidth usage so I haven't checked post migration.
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10-21-2009, 03:40 AM #19DigitalPunchCardMaker
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Also WHT keeps the images at the minimum. i.e. no avatars, signature banners, images directly viewed at the post body etc. That should save quite a bit of BW.
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