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.
#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
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