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RottiBiz requested that I repost a couple of posts I ran a couple of threads ago. Now, keep in mind that they are for the past week, where traffic increased by a good 50%, but if the Robinsons hadn't built the site to handle it, where would we be?

Just running some numbers over the past week:
-More than 74,000 distinct hosts served per day
-More than 2,024,000 requests for information from JohnRob's Mighty Mouse server per day
-Over 62 GB of information transferred per day (to put it in bandwidth terms, that's an average of better than 5890 kbps, or nearly 4 T-1 lines, and that's every last second of the day).
Handling that kind of traffic costs, folks. Of course, I'm preaching to the choir, but that's so the choir can preach to the masses.
One last number to chew on from this past week: 3357 distinct posters per day. If these 3300 or so (rounded down for easier math) donated a mere $9/month, we would be completely self-sufficient.

Now, keep in mind that they are for the past week, where traffic increased by a good 50%, but if the Robinsons hadn't built the site to handle it, where would we be?

We'd be at Yahoo. It's an okay place to visit, but who wants to live there!