The (too) highly paid people at the BBC seem to have underestimated the number of people who watch football on-line. I included the '(too)' for a reason. The people who are supposed to provide the service have no experience of watching on-line football or trying to keep a site running when you are getting thousands on hits within a half hour period, then very few hits for a few hours. The BBC have calculated the required bandwidth over a month, added a bit on and got it wrong, ignoring the obvious spike requirements.
FSi doesn't have the funding of the BBC but we know about getting 'rammed' at KO time. ie. The server can't cope with the traffic. That was the reason that we started the static links page (which is now down) on a different server. People would be able to get those links even if the main site was rammed.
The reason that the static link page is down is due to our Swiss-run Dutch server deciding that these 'peaks' are unacceptable. He's had complaints from others on his server complaining about slow responses at 3:00 BST on a Saturday. We had 350,000 hits last Saturday. I wonder why that is?
To cut a long story short, he offered us a deal where we wouldn't affect other sites. The problem is, we won't (can't and wouldn't pay that price anyway) so the footballstreaming.info page is on the move. Bear with us.
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