All Posts Tagged With: "Bandwidth"

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Fifth Underseas Cable Cut - Am I The Only One Who Things Something Fishy Is Going On?

Over the last week, a number of undersea fiber optic cables have been severed in the Middle East. So far no explanation has been given for how the cables are being cut. But, surely the odds of FIVE cables being cut in a week are very high and they can’t be accidents. [...]

 6Feb2008 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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Feedback: How Much Traffic Before Dedicated Hosting Becomes Necessary?

Almost all of us started with a cheap, shared web host. The shared hosts offer a fantastic service for little money. They offer the novice webmaster a managed environment with niceties like web-based administrative interfaces (cPanel, Plesk, etc) for managing their site(s) and services, script based installation of site software via Fantastico, and ftp and [...]

 27Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 22 comments | Continued
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ISPs Beware! Joost Is Coming At The End Of The Year

Joost, the peer-to-peer TV sharing application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has signed up more than a million beta testers and is on track for an end-of-year launch, its co-creator has revealed. Finally, the whole world will get to see what a great service Joost is, which in my view makes a [...]

 26Jul2007 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
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ISPs Are Going To Hate Joost

I spent the day working at home yesterday and I had Joost (get a Joost invite) running all day.  Even when I wasn’t at my PC or when I was on a conference call Joost was still running in the background.  I’ve only been using Joost for two days and already I’ve been [...]

 9May2007 | Everton | 10 comments | Continued
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Xbox 360 To Offer Movie Downloads From November 22nd

Microsoft announced yesterday that users of Microsoft’s Xbox Live video game service will be able to download movies and TV shows from 22 November. The US software giant has teamed up with Hollywood studios to sell shows and rent movies such as such South Park and Mission Impossible III.
Although this was an expected development, I [...]

 8Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Reduce Bandwidth Costs - Use Coralize to Cache Your Pages

This is a neat tip. If you want to reduce your bandwidth costs then use Coralize to cache your webpages so that visitors to the page are downloading it from Coral rather than from your server.The easiest way to do this is to use the Coralize extension for Firefox. Then all you have [...]

 11Sep2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued