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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Speedy, post: 195783, member: 705&quot;]That isn&#039;t cheap--if you want them to keep the prices where they are I wouldn&#039;t suggest that to the mint.</p><p>Being somewhat in that kind of business I know how they feel---lets say they get a T1 line worth of Bandwidth (and I&#039;m sure they have alot more than that) it would cost them a few hundred for a good one...and more than likely I would say that they have a T3---I think a cheap T3 runs for around $600 but don&#039;t hold me to that---and I would say that the mint has more than 1 T3.</p><p>The best way to have a site set up for hits such as this is to get &quot;backup&quot; bandwidth from OTHER companies---so lets say that you go to Co.1 for your service you also go to Co.2 and Co.3 and get the same service from all 3 companies---then if one of the hosting companies has a power outages or whatever the site doesn&#039;t go down and instead the site is re-directed to the other server....note that all 3 servers have the same info/detail on them.</p><p>BUT being that this is a Gov. site I would say that they don&#039;t go through &quot;hosting&quot; companies and they just own their own---while they could still get 3+ T3 lines from differnt companies I would also guess that being the Gov. they don&#039;t do that either--but have a deal with 1 set company---so hence the slow down sometimes--while extra Bandwidth might be hlepful its not needed as they only have these problems for what...2-3 hours every few months?</p><p><br /></p><p>Note---I&#039;m not that much up on Tech and I could be off on some or all of this---this is just what I&#039;ve heard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speedy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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