[thelist] domain self-hosting

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Fri May 4 15:46:32 CDT 2001


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Paul Dewey wrote on 4/5/01 8:28 pm

>>you could have 256 IPs serving 500 customers
>>as long as you're comfortable that no more than 256 will be online
>>at one time
>
>Okay I have to add my 2 cents in.  Here is the scary part.  I have a friend 
>that works for eli (they are a hug company that sells high speed bandwidth 
>to ISP) and he says the rule that most ISP use is a 10 to 1 ratio.  Meaning 
>that for every 1 IP brought from ELI and sold to the ISP that ISP will have 
>10 clients.  Other words they have 10 clients for 1 IP they have.  Isn't 
>this scary!  An ISP having 100 IPs mostly likely has 1000 clients!  Those 
>clients are you and me!

Do you have probs connecting? If not, then 10/1 works.

Cheers
Martin

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