Comments on: Reduce Volusion Excess Bandwidth Fees http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/ecommerce/reduce-volusion-excess-bandwidth-fees Web Developer / Web Designer Info Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chris http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/ecommerce/reduce-volusion-excess-bandwidth-fees/comment-page-1#comment-868 Chris Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:04:49 +0000 http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/?p=187#comment-868 Honestly with as many server errors as Volusion has they should actually credit some bandwidth back to us. Our website is down quite a bit and Volusion can't say it is the way the servers are pointed because I go on volusion.com immediately and it does the same thing. Honestly with as many server errors as Volusion has they should actually credit some bandwidth back to us. Our website is down quite a bit and Volusion can’t say it is the way the servers are pointed because I go on volusion.com immediately and it does the same thing.

]]> By: Randy Harris http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/ecommerce/reduce-volusion-excess-bandwidth-fees/comment-page-1#comment-857 Randy Harris Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:35:23 +0000 http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/?p=187#comment-857 KJ --- Feel free to call to discuss what you need. (I've already looked at your site). Randy, 508-371-8822 (cell) KJ — Feel free to call to discuss what you need. (I’ve already looked at your site).

Randy, 508-371-8822 (cell)

]]> By: KJ http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/ecommerce/reduce-volusion-excess-bandwidth-fees/comment-page-1#comment-856 KJ Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:10:58 +0000 http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/?p=187#comment-856 Randy, Thoughts on Amazon CloudFront? The CDN doubled our bandwidth and we're a brand new site, with little traffic. I'm so glad the store owners on the forum directed me to you, before launching a Adwords campaign. I shudder to think how much in the whole we could have been. Contacting you for an estimate. Randy,

Thoughts on Amazon CloudFront?

The CDN doubled our bandwidth and we’re a brand new site, with little traffic. I’m so glad the store owners on the forum directed me to you, before launching a Adwords campaign. I shudder to think how much in the whole we could have been. Contacting you for an estimate.

]]> By: Randy Harris http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/ecommerce/reduce-volusion-excess-bandwidth-fees/comment-page-1#comment-851 Randy Harris Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:38 +0000 http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/?p=187#comment-851 Volusion has "free" built in Akamai CDN... but I question if it's effective (or even free). I turned off CDN on the last remote image serving job I did. It seems to me that updating 9,500 servers with images, all to save the backbone traffic of serving the images directly [from the origin server] is more of a waste of bandwidth... and I am not sure that Volusion isn't charging customers for the bandwith required to feed the CDN. The customer felt the images actually displayed faster with no CDN, <em>(and they have offices on both sides of the Atlantic).</em> FWIW -- that customer was charged +$500 in excess bandwidth fees the first month his store went live -- and he wanted to clone the store for two additional markets. The work I did will save him ((+$500 * 3) * 12) per year .. or roughly +$18k/yr that he never anticipated being charged when he signed up with Volusion. I got a call this afternoon from another Volusion store owner -- they are using 200GB excess bandwidth and being charged $4.00/GB, (+$800/mo). Volusion is clobbering store owners with the bandwidth fees. It seems adding CDN and other "features" is just a way to complicate the image hosting and put more profit in Volusions pocket. *** <strong style="color:red;">NOTICE TO ANYONE CONSIDERING USING VOLUSION:</strong> Make sure you know what your bandwidth usage will be before investing a lot of time and money into building your business on Volusion's platform!!!! **** Volusion has “free” built in Akamai CDN… but I question if it’s effective (or even free). I turned off CDN on the last remote image serving job I did. It seems to me that updating 9,500 servers with images, all to save the backbone traffic of serving the images directly [from the origin server] is more of a waste of bandwidth… and I am not sure that Volusion isn’t charging customers for the bandwith required to feed the CDN. The customer felt the images actually displayed faster with no CDN, (and they have offices on both sides of the Atlantic).

FWIW — that customer was charged +$500 in excess bandwidth fees the first month his store went live — and he wanted to clone the store for two additional markets. The work I did will save him ((+$500 * 3) * 12) per year .. or roughly +$18k/yr that he never anticipated being charged when he signed up with Volusion.

I got a call this afternoon from another Volusion store owner — they are using 200GB excess bandwidth and being charged $4.00/GB, (+$800/mo). Volusion is clobbering store owners with the bandwidth fees.

It seems adding CDN and other “features” is just a way to complicate the image hosting and put more profit in Volusions pocket.

*** NOTICE TO ANYONE CONSIDERING USING VOLUSION: Make sure you know what your bandwidth usage will be before investing a lot of time and money into building your business on Volusion’s platform!!!! ****

]]> By: Rob http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/ecommerce/reduce-volusion-excess-bandwidth-fees/comment-page-1#comment-850 Rob Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:12:44 +0000 http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/?p=187#comment-850 Nice post, thanks for the useful javascript rewrite code! What about using a CDN with Volusion? [NOTE:promotional text about specific cloud service removed] Nice post, thanks for the useful javascript rewrite code! What about using a CDN with Volusion?

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