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I used to work for a visual effects studio in Los Angeles, we setup a Canadian office and wanted to do offsite backups from Canada to LA and from LA to Canada f
by beaugunderson 4y ago
I used to work for a visual effects studio in Los Angeles, we setup a Canadian office and wanted to do offsite backups from Canada to LA and from LA to Canada for redundancy. We found a provider who would give us dedicated unmetered 1gbps and then setup a simple rsync. It worked great, we hit 800mbps (the theoretical maximum with TCP overhead) and then 5 days later we got a call from the provider who was absolutely floored that we wanted to actually use the bandwidth we had paid for. Since we had signed a contract they were f'ed but we did come to some agreement in the end. They told us we were affecting all of their other customers.
- walrus01 4y agoNow that is a shitty hosting company, since you told them what you were going to do in advance and wrote a bandwidth commitment into the sales order.
- beaugunderson 4y agoI think it was a classic case of "sales person will do anything to get the deal done, including things that are harmful to their employer"!
- walrus01 4y agoassuming this person is paying at least $200 a month (not $40-50 like for a hetzner server) it's probably not even harmful economically.
- beaugunderson 4y agoNot sure if you mean me or the OP; for us this was a LONG time ago so if memory serves (and it might not) I think we were paying $2,000+/month.