A friend of mine (who's a dj) is running into hosting issues. His site is low traffic but I recently helped him to produce a podcast, got it up on itunes and now he's got a fair few followers. Trouble is that his hosting company has started to suspend his site every now and then. At first the hosting company thought is was a DNS attack but it's just when he releases a new mix and everybody downloads and plays it.
Anyway, he's currently running just over 2500 gig a month.
Any ideas? Currently he only pays about £30 a month but I think he's going to have to bump this up 10 fold.
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A friend of mine (who's a dj) is running into hosting issues. His site is low traffic but I recently helped him to produce a podcast, got it up on itunes and now he's got a fair few followers. Trouble is that his hosting company has started to suspend his site every now and then. At first the hosting company thought is was a DNS attack but it's just when he releases a new mix and everybody downloads and plays it.
Anyway, he's currently running just over 2500 gig a month.
Any ideas? Currently he only pays about £30 a month but I think he's going to have to bump this up 10 fold.
It's time for you to move on to a dedicated server. You will need to boost your budget for the dedicated server.
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10M/s per second only gives you a maximum of 3200GB/month (really, more like 2250GB/month after overheads) and that is for constant traffic. It will be less if it is not always totally maxed out and also would be limiting downloads during the peaks.
I'd say he needs to think how the traffic might grow and how long he expects to keep doing this. I think your 10x prediction is more realistic than finding a bargain solution.
An option would be to offload the audio files to something like Amazon S3 and keep the existing hosting for the low traffic stuff. The cost will be about the same as a dedicated server but it should be simper to manage and should be able to cope with traffic spikes more easily.
Anyway, he's currently running just over 2500 gig a month.
Any ideas? Currently he only pays about £30 a month but I think he's going to have to bump this up 10 fold.
2,500 gig a month, are you sure that is correct? Is that not like 42,000+ standard mp3's (maths is probally wrong). That's a hell of a lot of data transfer.
2,500 gig a month, are you sure that is correct? Is that not like 42,000+ standard mp3's (maths is probally wrong). That's a hell of a lot of data transfer.
Good point! Though I think your maths might be little wrong.
A 30 minute mp3 at 160kbs is 34Mb so thats over 75,000 per month. (probably over half a million normal mp3s).
Yeah my maths sucks however was thinking of it like an album i.e. 74 mins was probably some place close to that, never a calculator when you need one LOL
