Re: "Asimov" appears to be down! :(

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Sean McNamara wrote:

>In article <20031227133956.04179.00002021@mb-m29.aol.com>,
> mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
>
>> Sean McNamara wrote:
>> 
>> >In article <sean-7B6048.17501127122003@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>> > Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Yes, I notices that asimov was down a few days ago, so took the time 
>> >> (and used up some of my monthly 3gb (about to become 10) to download the
>
>> >> mirror. I have >95% of it - was there something in particular you
>wanted?
>> >
>> >Just to be complete, yes, I'm finding the mirror down as well, hence my 
>> >offer to send something. I can't actually offer to host a mirror, much 
>> >as I'd like to.
>> 
>> Many servers have a bandwidth quota, so when a bunch of folks
>> "snarf" the whole site, it becomes temporarily unavailable because
>> its quota was exceeded.  ;-(
>
>Hi Michael - not sure if that's the case - the mirror site claims to 
>serve 1 million megabytes a day! not sure if 800MB or so for asimov 
>would cause much of a ripple :)

I expect that's _aggregate_ bandwidth for all the domain names
it serves--a little server-side brag statement.

For individual hosted domains, there is a charge that almost
certainly caps the served _per-domain_ bandwidth, else one
domain could saturate the server's pipe.

>It's actually back up now - you can use
>
>http://planetmirror.com/

Good news!

-michael

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