Bandwidth

[DavidR]

As Fishfinger pointed out ;) all my previous website have been hosted at 1and1, their best package allows a mere 120gb bandwidth per month £1 per extra gb used over that (previously £5, which was as shock when the bill came through!). That amount was fine for my hobbie sites. Now I am about to start my MySpace resource website, I know it won't start off using hundreds of GB a month, but I want to think ahead as obviously I hope to expand.

How much bandwidth do you guys use roughly (if you can, don't inc videos and mp3s or please note that in your reply if you inc them)

I was looking into 1000gb, would you advise this as being a good amount to start off with and a good amount to last me some time? I won't be offering my own image upload service or hosting videos and mp3s I don't think.

Thanks

[money_train]

i have a month old site.
with 1K uniques a day it is consuming 3.5-4 gb data daily.
this is increasing everyday.
currently i am at 80 GB monthly plan.
but need to go up fast.

[Fishfinger]

It is crazy what 1and1 charge in the UK. Have a look :

Best 1and1.co.uk deal is 120GB for roughly $38

Best 1and1.com deal is 2500GB for $14.99!!!

Of course you can sign-up to 1and1.com from any country in the world except the UK where it will redirect you to co.uk

Either the brits are subsidising the rest of the world or they just don't like the UK

[mcfox]

Personally, I would avoid 1&1 entirely.

[DavidR]

It is crazy what 1and1 charge in the UK. Have a look :

Best 1and1.co.uk deal is 120GB for roughly $38

Best 1and1.com deal is 2500GB for $14.99!!!

Of course you can sign-up to 1and1.com from any country in the world except the UK where it will redirect you to co.uk

Either the brits are subsidising the rest of the world or they just don't like the UK

That is absolutely shocking.

[Cyclops]

If you come across a situation like that where it's way cheaper to buy or join from another country then use a Proxy IP address from the country that you can get the best deal from.

That's not really unusual...it happens a lot, companies charge what they think the population is prepaired to pay.

[DavidR]

If you come across a situation like that where it's way cheaper to buy or join from another country then use a Proxy IP address from the country that you can get the best deal from.

That's not really unusual...it happens a lot, companies charge what they think the population is prepaired to pay.

If they found out I reside in the UK, would they cancel my account do you think?

[piplewis]

Im in the uk and have signed up with http://www.anhosting.com/ think its $6.95 / month
I haven't really heard anything good or bad about them but thought i'd give em a go.
So far so good, support has been excellent.

Pip

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[Fishfinger]

Midphase/AnHosting do offer a good deal and I also thought the support was excellent.

But when you reach 300K daily hits they will cut your site off without warning. Regardless of the bandwidth you used.

There is no point asking them to put it back on either, they won't do it. Not even for 24 hours.

Same goes for Dreamhost and their $7.99 2TB bandwidth deal.

So good option to start off with put keep an eye on the daily hits to avoid disaster.

[piplewis]

Thanks for that Mr Finger, i'm way way way off 300,000 uniques though.:helpsmilie:
If, ahem, no when I get near that number i'll be PM'ing Greg to beg him to let me on GregHost.:-)

Pip

[Fishfinger]

You might be closer then you think because it is 300k hits....1K daily uniques for a few weeks is usually enough to reach that limit.

[piplewis]

Bugger, that's about where I am now. and I signed up for the year..:sweatdrop:
Looks like i'm in the cack again.

[DavidR]

Midphase/AnHosting do offer a good deal and I also thought the support was excellent.

But when you reach 300K daily hits they will cut your site off without warning. Regardless of the bandwidth you used.

There is no point asking them to put it back on either, they won't do it. Not even for 24 hours.

Same goes for Dreamhost and their $7.99 2TB bandwidth deal.

So good option to start off with put keep an eye on the daily hits to avoid disaster.

I've been reading back on this board about Dreamhost. It makes it so hard to pick a host when you read that many will kick you off before you even reach their limits.

I guess when you can afford to, your own server is a good option, but it still doesn't make it right that if you work within the limits you pay for with a shared host that you can be thrown off.

[chihpih]

if you are going to be using so much bandwith you need to get a vps or dedicated server. i have vps and a while back when i would promote my site via bulletins sometimes i would pump upto 100 users online and would see the site crawl but i also had at least 10 other mysql (resource intensive) sites running. one other time i crashed the server because i went over the maximum allowed processes.

my advice dont be cheap and get better hosting. shared hosting is gey