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Old 03-04-2009, 09:21 PM   #11
teamchachi
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Originally Posted by ken0042 View Post
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.
Sort of. Some hosting companies do provide something called "burstable" bandwidth which will allow the customer to exceed their contracted bandwidth allotment during unusual peak periods. However this doesn't apply to us in our current situation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing
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