The New York Times reports that heavy usage of video is driving Internet traffic through the roof — increasing by 50% every year according to conservative estimates (or 100% a year, if you believe the aggressive forecasters).
Last year, by one estimate, the video site YouTube, owned by Google, consumed as much bandwidth as the entire [...]

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Oprah’s website crashed on Monday when over 500,000 visitors tried to view her live webcast. As the Wall Street Journal puts it,
When will people learn? If you’re promoting something on your Web site – particularly something that stresses your tech equipment like an online video – make sure that you’re prepared to handle [...]

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2007 was a bad year for “100% uptime”, and it looks like 2008 is off to a rocky start. Anyone offering web services knows Rackspace for their “fanatical support” and “100% uptime” promises. They’re well known for being the cream of the crop in managed server vendors (thanks partially to their ubiquitous [...]

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