IP assignment for virtual webhosting

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Mark Lastdrager wrote:

Dear Sirs,

It's really sad, but your apache-around discussion is not interesting for
90% mailing list readers... Are you sure that I (and all my collegue) want
read THIS? We're ready to keep our eyes open for ANY RIPE team messages,
even 1st April jokes, but NOT your life-around discussion about
bananas prices in Honduras.


To RIPE team: Sirs, please, open about-life at ripe.net mailing list
discussion for this kind of writer :)



> Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:44:34 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Mark Lastdrager <mark at pine.nl>
> To: Dave Wilson <dave.wilson at heanet.ie>
> Cc: lir-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: IP assignment for virtual webhosting
> 
> At Thu, 11 May 2000, owner-lir-wg at ripe.net wrote:
> 
> >Can you expand on this? Is the difference between counted and real
> >traffic random, or a roughly equal (or proportional) overhead for
> >each server? Is the difference so significant that one cannot take
> >it into account as part of the charging structure?
> 
> I did some research on this topic a while ago. The traffic Apache measures
> (based on filesize) can be 10 to 50% smaller than the traffic the router
> measures. Ofcourse this depends on the filesize, packetsize etc.
> 
> Mark Lastdrager
> Pine Internet
> 
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> Today's excuse: the router thinks its a printer.
> 
> 

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