Re: UKNM: RE: UKNM Digest V1 #115

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Nick Sellors wrote:

> 

>

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:19:04 -0000, jameswebweaver [dot] uk [dot] com (James Bruce)

> wrote:

> 

> >Wrong! the reason that US hosting costs are lower in than the UK's is that

> >the competitive picture is vastly different. Penetration of over 30% and a

> >multitude of mature players keeps the costs low, whereas the UK's relatively

> >modest takeup allows upstream providers to bloat their margins, this then

> >feeds downstream.

> 

> Wrong!

> 

> The main reason that hosting in the US is cheaper is purely and simply

> because of international bandwidth requirements and their associated

> costs. I don't care if you don't believe me, because I know what I'm

> talking about.

> 

> >Don't be fooled by all this bandwidth junk!!!

> 

> See .sig - I'm paid to know about this stuff.

> 


So? Being paid to know is not the same thing as knowing (People called

stefan in glass houses, etc ;) ). My point was that the qed-uk.com site

wasn't slow. I've seen sites served in telehouse perform like pigs. The

factors affecting the performance of a website are many-fold, and all

the bandwidth in the world won't help you if you've got a stupid site

built on a stupid architecture, on an underspecced machine... qed-uk.com

is an OK site built with limited resources, and they obviously made a

cost-related choice in their hosting. It's working fine for them.


Of course, you're paid to flog UK internet connectivity, so you probably

wouldn't think of it in those terms. 


And I noticed, despite the clearly tongue-in-cheek tone of my mail, you

took the effort to respond to each option on the question individually.

Thanks!


[It's alright Sam, I'm stopping now.]


stefan


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