Phish is getting ready to start there new tour run this Friday at Hampton Colosseum. Since I easily got shut out for all three nights of that run, I am going to have to sit at home and wait for the downloads, so I can experience the magic of Phish for myself. This led me to find Mr. Miner's Phish Thoughts blog.

As I was looking through his blog, it appears that he is going to have the shows posted on the web for download within a hour after each show. Now of course he says that it might take more than a hour, but this should draw a ton of people to his site. In the facts section his response to the possiable huge traffic that he is expecting is this.

3. Isn’t the download link going to crater?
The files will be hosted on Amazon S3, so it shouldn’t.

There will also be a torrent (hosted by Amazon) that should be really fast if there are hundreds (perhaps thousands!?) of you grabbing it.

Well I know that I will be online checking to see if he has gotten the shows posted yet. This should also be a great test to see how efficient the download will be. I have been very interested in Amazon’s S3 service, and am very curious how things will pan out.

I will have to thank the administrator of “Mr. Miner's Phish Thoughts” site. He is doing a great thing by appeasing to my sense of impatience. He is also going above and beyond what could be expected of any taper. Now all I can do is hope and pray that Amazon can handle this type of bandwidth. I would expect that he is going to draw some amazing traffic after the show is done.

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