I will soon be distributing a bunch of large scientific and research datasets, all entirely legal for redistribution, many as large as a few gigabytes. Bittorrent is the best solution for this. Many respectable webhosting sites don't allow Bittorrent trackers; too many of those that do seem fly-by-night. I have a budget for this and want something respectable and reliable. Recommendations? [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - 20 answers

What would cause web site traffic to rise and then hit a plateau for the middle of each day before falling again? [more inside]
posted on Nov 18, 2007 - 16 answers

Web-hosting quandary: how to best prepare for the potential of a surge in high-bandwidth traffic? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2007 - 22 answers

I've just established the domain for my first website, and look forward to learning how to update and maintain it. (I currently know nothing about how to do it, but I'm an eager learner.) For the moment, I'd like to host about 25 movie files and 100 images, and could use some advice on how to do this. [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2005 - 8 answers

On community blog sites like Metafilter, a lot of bandwidth seems to be consumed by redundant requests like previewing comments or checking for new ones where the entire page is reloaded. So when in the thread on Google Maps, mosch mentioned the HTTPRequest javascript object, that got me thinking. Are there any ways to write code that can cut down on resending the same data. Some kind of 'diff' method for HTML?
posted on Feb 8, 2005 - 20 answers