Bandwidth estimation question

Sat Oct 3 04:15:44 UTC 2015

Would cloudflare caching (free tier?) help in this case? Maybe easier than
upgrades for short time traffic bump.
On 2 Oct 2015 23:47, "Tom Sands" <tsands at rackspace.com> wrote:

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> There is no telling how big a flash crowd might be. I've see them jump in
> the Gbps range and not Mbps.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:06 PM, JoeSox <joesox at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I am trying to figure out if our hosting plan has enough bandwidth
> > (currently at 15Mbps, our average webpage is 300kb).
> > One of our members may win a peace prize for scientific work so there may
> > be a media blitz.
> > Does anyone know how much traffic a 'media blitz' (for lack of a better
> > word) generates?
> > I can bump it to 50Mbps but I am not even sure if that is enough.
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> > --
> > Thank You, Joe
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