Georg Chytil wrote:
While this was generally true in the past, your mileage will vary
nowadays : the costs for hardware and operations are
significant as compared to transit costs, the benefactor has no
real/immediate monetary benefit from hosting a wiki site IMHO.
Plus - you need to be in the Gigabit range to convince a tier 1
provider of establishing peering(s) with you.
Hoi,
The Dutch and the Belgian organisations are both in the Gigabit range.
Yahoo and this other "mystery" organisation are in that bracket as well.
Thanks,
GerardM
#g
At 21:18 06.05.2005, Neil Harris wrote:
[...]
You might also want to consider that Wikipedia
is, on balance, a
large net source of network traffic, and that peering agreements make
most sense for networks which have balanced traffic in and out (and,
for the same reason, transit gets cheaper for balanced flows, even if
you cannot negotiate settlement-free peering). Thus, network
providers with net inflows may well be able to make substantial cost
_savings_ by giving Wikipedia free bandwidth, power and rackspace.
Wikipedia is rapidly becoming big enough to become a player in the
peering game, or at least should be aware of its advantage to others
in doing so. I presume this has not escaped the attention of some of
our potential benefactors...
-- Neil