sheldonbrown.org

Ryan Cousineau said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bill said:

SMS said:

Sheldon Brown wrote:

> My Simonweb account has a 35 GB/month limit, which I habitually exceed
> toward the end of each month, but they don't seem to do anything about
> it other than sending me an automated email. Are your sites in that
> range?
I had 55GB in April, 35GB so far in May. The average over the past year
was 33GB, but for some reason it's really gone up in the past few months.

Just for the record I have comcast and they cut me off at 2GB per month.
They also throttle the downloads since I have seen upwards of 15Mb or
1.5MB per second but they always throttle me down to 7.5Mbit.
I have asked about the unlimited speed but always seem to get the
representative who either doesn't know or think 7.5Mbit is plenty.
Not when I am trying to download 9GBytes from Suse linux.
Just my 2 cents.
Bill Baka

Interesting data, but we're talking about website hosting services, and
you seem to be describing your personal internet access. They're two
different things, and the parameters of what is available in those two
markets are quite different.

It's possible to get service such that you're either hosting with your
ISP, or where you have the servers at your site and host from there
through your ISP, but the first scenario is not all that common in my
experience (because being an ISP and being a hosting provider are fairly
different businesses), and the latter is usually limited to either
businesses with fairly specialized or industrial-strength web needs, or
to reasonably serious nerds.

I can't really think of a way to get this on topic,

I don't know where in the country the OP is at and I just came in
yesterday. A friend has DSL and they throttle him to 1.5Mb/sec.
Both have websites available but it does seem that they want more money
for more services. I had a local ISP with more available web site space
than I could fill up on dial-up. Finally they got DSL and they are
charging twice what the dial-up was and more than Comcast.
Your experiences may differ.
It's not bike related so I'm not taking up this thread.
Bill Baka

Bill said:

SMS said:

Sheldon Brown said:

My Simonweb account has a 35 GB/month limit, which I habitually exceed
toward the end of each month, but they don't seem to do anything about
it other than sending me an automated email. Are your sites in that
range?

I had 55GB in April, 35GB so far in May. The average over the past
year was 33GB, but for some reason it's really gone up in the past few
months.

Just for the record I have comcast and they cut me off at 2GB per month.

I'm talking about my web hosting service, not my personal ISP.

I don't think any web hosting service limits you to 2GB/month, not even
the free ones.

Yeah, a 2GB/month limit is a a joke for downloads. Just downloading a
set of Linux CD with all the applications is about 2GB. Broadband cable
has to limit downloads. While the peak transfer rate can be higher than
DSL, you're sharing that one cable with thousands of others, unlike DSL
where you have your own pair into the DSLAM. AT&T and Verizon have been
taking market share from cable with their DSL offerings, which are
getting faster, and which don't suffer from the limitations of sharing a
cable.

On 18 May 2007 11:42:44 -0700, Sheldon Brown

may have said:

urbanwriter said:

I haven't been able to get a response from sheldonbrown.org for three or
four days... givenSheldon'shealth concerns of late one worries. Does
anyone have any news, gossip, rumour, or innuendo that might shed some
light on the reason for this site's unavailability?

Sheldonbrown.org is hosted by simonweb.com. I picked Simonweb because
it was dirt cheap. (I have to pay for sheldonbrown.org myself, as
opposed to sheldonbrown.com, which is paid for by Harris Cyclery.)

Unfortunately, simonweb.com is currently offline, taking with it both
sheldonbrown.org and my brother's site junila.com.

I hope they get it fixed soon. If not, I'll need to find another
cheap host with a high traffic limit.

I've been mostly happy with ANHosting. YMMV.

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SMS said:

Bill said:

SMS said:

Sheldon Brown wrote:

> My Simonweb account has a 35 GB/month limit, which I habitually exceed
> toward the end of each month, but they don't seem to do anything about
> it other than sending me an automated email. Are your sites in that
> range?

I had 55GB in April, 35GB so far in May. The average over the past
year was 33GB, but for some reason it's really gone up in the past
few months.

Just for the record I have comcast and they cut me off at 2GB per month.

I'm talking about my web hosting service, not my personal ISP.

I don't think any web hosting service limits you to 2GB/month, not even
the free ones.

Comcast limits your newsgroup participation to 2 GB per month and then
tells you to buy a separate Giganews account. As far as web hosting goes
I haven't put up a web page on Comcast yet, but they would probably want
more money if I got a lot of hits.

Quoted message said:

Yeah, a 2GB/month limit is a a joke for downloads. Just downloading a
set of Linux CD with all the applications is about 2GB.

I just got 2.5GB today using a torrent client, but probably could have
gone straight to the source.

Broadband cable

Quoted message said:

has to limit downloads. While the peak transfer rate can be higher than
DSL, you're sharing that one cable with thousands of others, unlike DSL
where you have your own pair into the DSLAM.

I'm sort of in the country area where not too many people are hooked
into the cable yet. It does start at up to 15 MB/second but gets
throttled down to a very consistent 7.75 MB after about 10 seconds,
night or day.

AT&T and Verizon have been

Quoted message said:

taking market share from cable with their DSL offerings, which are
getting faster, and which don't suffer from the limitations of sharing a
cable.

Don't forget that 15,000 foot range limit. I am at 16,000 feet and they
won't even talk DSL to me.
Time will sort it out or make it way more complicated, either way.
Bill Baka

Bill said:

SMS said:

Bill said:

SMS wrote:
> Sheldon Brown wrote:
>
>> My Simonweb account has a 35 GB/month limit, which I habitually exceed
>> toward the end of each month, but they don't seem to do anything about
>> it other than sending me an automated email. Are your sites in that
>> range?
>
> I had 55GB in April, 35GB so far in May. The average over the past
> year was 33GB, but for some reason it's really gone up in the past
> few months.

Just for the record I have comcast and they cut me off at 2GB per month.

I'm talking about my web hosting service, not my personal ISP.

I don't think any web hosting service limits you to 2GB/month, not even
the free ones.

Comcast limits your newsgroup participation to 2 GB per month and then
tells you to buy a separate Giganews account. As far as web hosting goes
I haven't put up a web page on Comcast yet, but they would probably want
more money if I got a lot of hits.

Quoted message said:

Yeah, a 2GB/month limit is a a joke for downloads. Just downloading a
set of Linux CD with all the applications is about 2GB.

I just got 2.5GB today using a torrent client, but probably could have
gone straight to the source.

Broadband cable

Quoted message said:

has to limit downloads. While the peak transfer rate can be higher than
DSL, you're sharing that one cable with thousands of others, unlike DSL
where you have your own pair into the DSLAM.

I'm sort of in the country area where not too many people are hooked
into the cable yet. It does start at up to 15 MB/second but gets
throttled down to a very consistent 7.75 MB after about 10 seconds,
night or day.

AT&T and Verizon have been

Quoted message said:

taking market share from cable with their DSL offerings, which are
getting faster, and which don't suffer from the limitations of sharing a
cable.

Don't forget that 15,000 foot range limit. I am at 16,000 feet and they
won't even talk DSL to me.
Time will sort it out or make it way more complicated, either way.
Bill Baka

Unbelievable... Once again Bill Baka takes a subject and hijacks it
into another subject so he can pontificate ad nauseum about his
favorite subject: Bill Baka. Does the fact that another posters points
this out to him make any difference? Obvioously not. Talk about the
"me" generation, sheesh. Please stay on r.b.m., Billy, where you're
such a marvelous "contributor."

On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:49:32 -0700, SMS <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

AT&T and Verizon have been
taking market share from cable with their DSL offerings, which are
getting faster, and which don't suffer from the limitations of sharing a
cable.

Yeah, but Comcast will add more capacity if the line becomes load
limited. Just ask them and they will tell you that :-)

FIOS is the way to go.

still me said:

On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:49:32 -0700, SMS <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

AT&T and Verizon have been
taking market share from cable with their DSL offerings, which are
getting faster, and which don't suffer from the limitations of sharing a
cable.

Yeah, but Comcast will add more capacity if the line becomes load
limited. Just ask them and they will tell you that :-)

FIOS is the way to go.

Verizon is really looking at the long term with FIOS, while AT&T is
being its usually short-sighted self with U-Verse.

Jim Flom said:

Indeed it does (though .org seems not to). And while Sheldon doesn't
believe in devils, faeires, and leprechauns, he doesn't say he doesn't
believe in trolls. http://www.therealmartha.com/HappyHowlidaze/Trolls.JPG

He likely drives a Saab and they were built by trolls in Trollhatten,
..se, up until a few years ago. So, he'd have to believe in trolls,
they exist and build fine cars.

(not anymore, now Saabs are built by disgruntled US auto workers in
Detroit who stick Saab badges on them when they are done).

On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:17:44 -0700, "G.T." <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

But you took it off on some bizarre clueless self-serving tangent.

Greg

But we can fix that! Were you able to get sheldonbrown.org? Do you
have any suggestions for web hosting companies?

In article <[email hidden]>,

still me said:

Jim Flom said:

Indeed it does (though .org seems not to). And while Sheldon doesn't
believe in devils, faeires, and leprechauns, he doesn't say he doesn't
believe in trolls. http://www.therealmartha.com/HappyHowlidaze/Trolls.JPG

He likely drives a Saab and they were built by trolls in Trollhatten,
.se, up until a few years ago. So, he'd have to believe in trolls,
they exist and build fine cars.

(not anymore, now Saabs are built by disgruntled US auto workers in
Detroit who stick Saab badges on them when they are done).

Nah. The good ones are rebadged Subaru WRXen.

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"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

On Wed, 23 May 2007 12:21:06 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Nah. The good ones are rebadged Subaru WRXen.

The Saabaru? Please don't make me choke back my vomit. Fortunately
it's been killed off.