Out of the many strange/weird/bizarre things I do, one is to take 20-minute power naps. I find if I do this, I can get by on far less sleep per night. To help me be able to fall asleep in unusual locations and with different degrees of ambient noise, I rely on Placebo’s Polyphasic Sleep Soundtrack. Greg (a.k.a. Placebo) shared thse MP3s with the polyphasic-sleeping community some time ago, and they’ve been a well-kept secret.
Until now.
Today, they got linked from Lifehack. While cool, on the one hand, to bring exposure to the many people who sleep polyphasically (monophasic == one sleep per day, biphasic == two sleeps per day like Siestas, polyphasic == three or more sleeps per day), on the other hand it hammered his bandwidth and his ISP shut him down. Lots of people want to download these MP3s now that Lifehack has linked ’em.
I pay $90 a month for this server. By gum, I’m going to get my money’s worth, and I’m only using 10% of my bandwidth transfer per month right now.
So anyway, if you mouse-over the links on Greg’s site for the sleep-track MP3s, you may notice a familiar name hosting them. And in the bargain, I just found the Lifehack site, which has lots of cool tips for getting the most out of your time. Nifty.
It will die down…
Heh, I’m sure it will die down, but there have been over 7000 downloads of the MP3s in the first couple of hours hosting them. Dang, the Internet is a big place. I forget about that in our little corner of cyberspace.
7000 * average 23 MB == 161,000 MB or about 150GB.
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Matthew P. Barnson
Get Your Micro Donations Up
$90 a month?!?! 10% of bandwidth?!?!? What else are you running on your server? And can you hook me up? 🙂
Nice when you can help out someone who has helped you in the past.
‘Placebo sleep track, twelve minutes.’ I’m waiting for ‘I see dead people’.
Commercial, personal
If I understand correctly, I’m connected through dual OC-48 lines to the Internet. We run: 1. A number of commercial web sites, 2. A Teamspeak server (for clan gaming matches), 3. A number of personal web sites, 4. Some shell-only accounts for people who need tunnels
That’s really it. After expenses, it works out to about $20 a month for me. Paul chips in $60 a month for his commercial site, though it hasn’t been as popular lately as it used to be so we may need to scale back.
It’s a dual 2.8GHz Pentium 4 machine with a gigabyte of RAM. We aren’t even touching the CPU… it’s all memory and filesystem activity.
My going rate for friends and family is $80/year. If you’re a stranger, I make it $10/month for hosting, or $120/year. It’s a shared hosting environment, and I’m pretty strict about not allowing certain things because my ISP would terminate the server (notably, porn and copyright infringement would get me booted immediately). Truth be told, I set my rates a little high because there ARE better deals out there, and I’m more interested in helping people who want a full-service deal where they know the tech running it than people who are shopping for the lowest price.
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Matthew P. Barnson