I’m glad we don’t host the Firefox downloads
by Andrew Smith on 17/06/08 at 9:39 pm
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I’ve just done my bit for “the cause” by downloading Firefox 3. It feels a bit like a blood-drive or a cancer awareness campaign. Firefox have put together a great marketing gimmick by attempting to break the world record for downloads of a program in one day. Read about the campaign here.
Our sites are hosted with the professional and fast South African crowd, Hetzner. Thank goodness we don’t host the Firefox downloads as well! At 7mb per download, 1,000,000 downloads would cost us about R630,000.
Those new undersea cables couldn’t arrive at our doorstep a moment too soon!
Andrew Smith is the pedantic systems guy behind Live Alchemy, a SA e-commerce company. Andrew writes for Ideate in an attempt to make the world a more efficient place. View more articles by Andrew Smith.
Henre
Jun 19th, 2008
I’m disappointed that the people of Chad, Somalia, Solomon Islands and Liberia didn’t download a single copy of FF3.