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		Nextgrid on Sept 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting > if you routinely used more than 1% they'd cut you off, throttle you, or apply traffic shaping. This is true, but how many projects will routinely use enough bandwidth to matter? Unless you're streaming media, very little. Keep in mind that cloud backups, P2P/torrenting, etc also uses upstream bandwidth substantially, and ISPs have come to terms with it.

michaelt on Sept 24, 2024 [–]

For home use? You're probably right.

teruakohatu asked why a colocation facility would have a mere 10Gbps link when a 5Gbps residential links are so affordable. If you tried to run a colocation facility on a residential link, it would spend most of the time severely throttled.

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