For example, my hosting provider set buerst limit at 6 Mbps.

I don't think that's a standard approach to things, but you make me curious, who is your provider, and how did you find out about that limit?

Originally Posted by ldcdc

I don't think that's a standard approach to things, but you make me curious, who is your provider, and how did you find out about that limit?

I don't want to name my provider.

The limit on burst usage was mentioned in their newsletter: they said that they are going to increase this limit for individual websites. I send them an email asking what it currently is and got that answer. Otherwise this limit is not mentioned anywhere in their description of their hosting plans.

Earlier I suspected that such limit does exist, as I noticed that my website was getting slow when it got heavy traffic. During bursts the traffic can increase several hundred times. So, though, my site only gets about 30Gb of monthly transfer, which is 70 times less than 2,000 Gb / month obtained from 6Mbps, during spikes of activity the 6Mbps limit slows me down.

I see. Thank you for sharing the details. It's definitely interesting to hear about such limitations being used in shared hosting.

Originally Posted by Mikhail Simkin

For example, my hosting provider set buerst limit at 6 Mbps.

Has nothing to do with how much traffic you'll get per month but with how fast you can upload and download files.


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Originally Posted by fastreplies

Has nothing to do with how much traffic you'll get per month but with how fast you can upload and download files.

Of course, it does. Just like the maximum distance one can travel in a car in a month is limited by the maximum speed of the car.

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