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Originally Posted by Azure
Yeah, interesting.....I didn't realize that.
I guess the one day bandwidth idea would probably work great. Even if it costs a bit....I'm sure its not THAT much to increase your bandwidth for one day. Especially if the guys who look after the server realize that we only have a few days out of the year where traffic spikes like that.
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Originally Posted by ken0042
I'm not sure it's that simple. It might be more like you having a 125 amp electrical coming into your house, and asking Enmax if 2 days out of the year you could have 500 amp service.
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It's kind of in the middle.
Technology wise we could increase the bandwidth to the server instantly by a factor of 100 with the flip of a switch... the hosting facility has the capacity easily to handle that, and the hardware they use to allocate and manage the bandwidth to each of their clients is built for just such a thing.
So doing it is pretty easy.. click calgarypuck in some management software and use a dropdown to select the faster speed and click ok.
The difficulty is in how a company operates..
Using the popular tube theory of Internets, if bandwidth is water, the size of the tube dictates how much water you can get. The way the industry works is you can either get water at VERY high speeds but pay per gallon, or you can get water at a lower speed (narrow tube) but not have to worry about how much water you get, unlimited water, as much as you can suck through your tube.
What we need is the ability to switch back and forth when we need.. of course this works well for the customer, difficult for the water provider since everyone's going to game the system to maximize the benefit and minimize their cost.
So from a business point of view having a temporary increase in bandwidth for 2 days out of the year just isn't something that they handle.. there's no sku for it, no billing procedure, no price, no technical procedure, no way to make sure it gets returned to normal levels later, etc etc. So in that respect it's difficult to get done.
That said they were open to doing it for us today, so hopefully we'll get the same response on July 1 and relax that portion of the limits.
I know people are very willing to contribute financially, but you don't want to go to that well too many times otherwise it starts to dry up.