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Unlike the original c10k problem, serving those number of connectioms has now morthed from a technical to an economic problem

I don't think the economics of serving 1Gbit have ever added up to 300$ over two days.

Some quick googling suggests that a dedicated (DIA) 1gbit connection is around $1k/month, which would be $65ish for 2 days.

At that price it would mostly be overhead for getting a relatively slow connection. You could get 10gbps for a similar price.

1gbps from a hosting provider should be a lot less.

Ya I was giving a bit of a worst case estimate, for a link with no limiting or quota.