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the indigo · 11-21-2008, 11:44 PM

Somebody in the hosting industry needs to explain me something.

We use Tier1 bandwidth for our galleries thumbnails, .html, tour pages and member areas.

We use Tier2 bandwidth for video clips and big images from galleries.

For the hell of it, I tried to do multiple Traceroutes from USA, UK, Germany, France, Greece, Russia, Africa, etc... and I get the exact same route results for our Tier1 servers -vs- Tier2 servers.

What do I get wrong? Or is Tier1 traffic basically the same shit as Tier2 since all big providers are using cheaper Tier2 routers? Like buying Generic -vs- Brand... same stuff for 2x the price.

People in hosting, please explain me ;)

11-21-2008, 11:44 PM
the indigo Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: North America Posts: 2,016	Hosting: Tier1 -vs- Tier2 Somebody in the hosting industry needs to explain me something. We use Tier1 bandwidth for our galleries thumbnails, .html, tour pages and member areas. We use Tier2 bandwidth for video clips and big images from galleries. For the hell of it, I tried to do multiple Traceroutes from USA, UK, Germany, France, Greece, Russia, Africa, etc... and I get the exact same route results for our Tier1 servers -vs- Tier2 servers. What do I get wrong? Or is Tier1 traffic basically the same shit as Tier2 since all big providers are using cheaper Tier2 routers? Like buying Generic -vs- Brand... same stuff for 2x the price. People in hosting, please explain me ;) __________________ "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." -Hunter S. Thompson Last edited by the indigo; 11-21-2008 at 11:47 PM..