Advice for a website numpty please

[Pies]

PetrolTed said:

Like I say, PH is happy where it is (you get what you pay for in my book) but I have a few mad ideas flying around in my head for enhancements to the PH stable[.

[JamieBeeston]

squirrelz said:

If my calculations are right, then 750GB a month is like having a dedicated 2.3Mbit burstable line. Unless it's 750Gbit. Does seem remarkably cheap.

You mayu find however, that the links are capped at 10Mbit, sounds fine you say, until you realise at peak times PH might start to get close to doing 1MB/sec, and then you get issues with packet loss, and severe slowdowns.

Also, being the US, ping times are likely to increase by a factor of 50!! My network gets pings of around 1-2ms to most large european networks, I can get 60-70 to some of the premium US partners with Peering arrangements, the rest of the US, its around 110-150ms.. and thats from a Direct fibre feed from Level3s UK core hub.... Imagine what its like for Modem / Dial Up / DSL users :| could be getting into SECONDS!

Would kill Surfing and murder streaming.

US is great for hosting of large, often downloaded NON TimeSensetive files... Large Programs, MP3s, Company Brochures etc.. for anything that NEEDS a timely responce, then its useless.

[PetrolTed]

Interesting. Thanks.

[kanes]

PetrolTed said:

those guys are offering 750GB of bandwidth a month for only $99!

As Jamie says, they can offer this but there is limitations

Experience with them however, they are pretty good guys. They host hardocp which most people will tell you, is not a low bandwidth site or forums.

They don't drop people who go to the boundries though, I know a few people on their servers who sub-let space and they haven't had any issues.

[JamieBeeston]

I think the deal with hardocp is more a marketing arrangement, than a pure customer / client arrangement.

i am sure if a regular $99 user was using the same b/w as them, they would get a swift kick into touch

[kanes]

Yes that is right, IIRC the deal works out so Kyle gets a discount line (rather than a bandwidth cap) in exhcange for advertising.

However, If you go near their limits, they don't seem to mind aslong as you're hosting legit stuff.