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July 7, 2001 Link to this post
Mirroring can be painful
MichiganJ.S has asked us to pull his server's listing (CitrusV) from the GameStar movie mirror list, because the huge demand caused him to go way over his bandwidth limit (9.5 gigs in 2 days). Folks - it's not unusual for a new Halo movie to be downloaded by 10,000 people or more. At 30 megs a pop, that's more than 250 gigs of downloads... if you add your server to a mirror list that contains 10 other sites, you can count on traffic increasing by AT LEAST 10 gigs almost immediately. (I bet FilePlanet served over 100 gigs of that movie.) As much as I hate the idea of discouraging folks from volunteering with mirror space... PLEASE be aware of what you're getting into before you do so. Thanks. (Louis Wu 14:08:07 UTC)
