Bandwidth and websites
I've been plugging away at the bootcamp, and absorbing all kinds of information from the web about internet marketing. I set up google alerts and at about 1am I started getting the e-mails. I clicked on one of the links and was greeted with:
I immediately thought.. OUCH! That site is missing out on a lot of traffic because this happened! I hope this doesn't happen to my site at any point! 2 hours later the site is still down with this same error.
Now I'm off to research more into the bandwidth and how it works with websites.
Does anybody know what limits we have with web hosting here at WA?
Has this happened to anybody here?
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You shouldn't have to worry about bandwidth limits here. Your sites will expand to meet the demand.
Maybe I'm just a bit too geeky but i see something like this the same as a car accident as you're driving down the road. If the site could handle a lot of traffic and not crash it could really take off after that. If it crashes that's like giant construction cones and flashing lights that are annoying, slow down traffic, and people just drive around it sometimes not ever wanting to go back on the instantly changing information super highway.
I just keep thinking how can this be avoided and post it on here because I haven't seen much on the topic and everybody can learn from it.
Hi - I don't know the answer - but with so many users, and websites being hosted here etc - I wouldn't worry about it. K&C will definitely have it covered with a professional host. Most hosts will just "throttle" or slow down connections if limits in bandwidth usage are reached - not cut it off altogether. Also, most hosts these days are flexible in terms of being able to scale up quickly to meet a high demand, and scale back down again when demand is lower. If they weren't - people would host their websites elsewhere.
Likely that the one you came across was some sort of "free" hosting - rather than paid for.
I hope this helps?
All the best, Mark
from what i've found so far there's monthly bandwidth with some web hosts, when you reach that limit this error comes up until you pay to upgrade to a higher bandwidth. I'm still not sure how high this is to cause the site to crash. I also haven't found any fine print or anything yet that says WA won't throttle or slow down connections with their "unlimited web hosting" or any limits, what I do know is risking something like this on the internet is not good for a website of any kind.
We will find out the answers and more! I'll post back when I find the information or hopefully somebody knows and can post an answer.
It was odd that this domain was down but blogspot the free blogs in the e-mail were fine.
Thanks Mark!
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That is a good reason not to use sites that have free hosting. Thanks for sharing.
What was odd is that the site was its own .org and the other sites in the email were something.blogspot.com and they loaded just fine.