Chris mentions looking at SellsBrothers.com on Alexa. So, I had to look at a few sites...

  • weblogs.asp.net (great site -- you should... oh, you've heard of it)
    • Traffic Rank for asp.net: 2,815 (down114)
    • Speed:  Fast (73% of sites are slower), Avg Load Time: 1.0 Seconds
  • msdn.microsoft.com
    • Traffic Rank for microsoft.com: 10 (down1)
    • Speed:  Slow (77% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 2.8 Seconds

No conclusion, just interesting/fun to browse.

Oh, I found this interesting as well (via Boing Boing). See http://www.asp.net/hosters for some better rates:
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/18/1995_webhosting_rate.html

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