Tag Archives: bandwidth

July, 2009

• 31 July

  West Africa struggles after cable cut

  Yesterday, an undersea SAT-3 cable was cut between the Iberian peninsula and West Africa. It is apparently the only line connecting West Africa to the digital world, and the cut caused connectivity problems in Benin, Togo, Niger, and Nigeria. Nigeria’s banking sector, government and mobile phone networks all suffered from …
• 20 July

  Providers delay network expansion, risk catastrophe

  If you’re Monday is off to a good start, here’s some bad news to put a damper on any sort of nice day you might have been having. According to a report issued earlier this month, your provider’s failure to upgrade infrastructure at a time when usage is increasing could …

June, 2009

• 2 June

  BT Broadband Throttles Online Video

  Avid Youtube fans and BBC addicts will be upset to learn that Britain’s largest ISP, BT Broadband, has started throttling online video. The cuts are pretty substantial. One customer with a 8mbps connection says he can only stream BBC’s HD iPlayer at 500kbps, a service that requires at least 3mbps: …
• 1 June

  The Horror of Hotlinking

  Find yourself using too much bandwidth? While the pictures and video content many of us host on our sites use a fair bit of data transfer, a hidden threat may be hogging more resources than you realize. Also known as inline linking, hotlinking occurs when someone else uses a picture …

May, 2009

• 20 May

  A lighter, faster web server

  For some web sites with heavy, often spiking traffic, sometimes the standard web servers like Apache or Microsoft’s IIS simply do not suffice. When you need a web server that will be fast and secure and still produce a light CPU load, you might consider Lighttpd. Lighttpd is a free …
• 13 May

  Security: Hidden Botnet Costs Can Hurt Small Businesses

  Hidden bots running in the background of web servers, do more damage than just comprising security and privacy. They drain system resources. A business that might depend on keep low bandwidth usage and low power consumption can be crippled by these hidden bots that increase CPU, memory, and bandwidth usage. …
• 5 May

  Bandwidth Usage Increases as Infrastructure Grows

  After the telecom bubble burst in the early 2000s, networks took a huge hit. Without the capital to lay new cable, Internet infrastructure did not get better and bandwidth usage stayed about the same. According to analyst TeleGeography, things have gotten better. The research service, which tracks 224 network operators …
• 2 May

  How Much Bandwidth Do You Need?

  Web hosting companies typically highlight two significant features in all of their packages: disk space and bandwidth (also called data transfer). Most people are quite aware of how much disk space they will need to run their web site, but often times the word “bandwidth” is confusing. How much bandwidth …
• 1 May

  Apache Turns Ten

  Last month the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) celebrated its 10th anniversary. Apache is the underlying web server technology that powers most of the world’s web sites. According to Netcraft, 49.95% of web sites run on servers powered by Apache. The second closest web server technology belongs to Microsoft at 29.27%. …
• 1 May

  The Truth About "Unlimited" Web Hosting

  From time to time, I’ll come across a web host offering unlimited space, no bandwidth caps, or both. These hosts claim that for a low monthly price, often under £10, you can use all the storage and data transfer you want. Other hosts might not be so audacious as to …