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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:18:50 +0300
From: Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su>
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To: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: New site - minor problem
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Hi,

Dave Page wrote:
>>If you have problems with directing traffic to your server, 
>>then we'll probably need to find "real" hosting. Because 
>>we'll still need to direct all form submissions to your 
>>server (uncluding voting in surveys).
> 
> The form submissions will not be a problem as they are a minimal amount
> of traffic. Handling tens or hundreds of thousands of hits per day for
> mirrors is a lot more. The box I'm using is on a 2Mb leased line (which
> costs an arm and a leg here btw). If the traffic impacts our normal
> business in any way, it will have to be removed - hence I'm being
> cautious.

Ok, I see.

But then I have another question: why are we moving the dynamic site 
from one inadequate server (due to overload) to the other (due to 
bandwidth limits)? Especially when there were proposals of better 
hosting options on this list?