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How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website?
DosGusanos asks: "I was curious how much people around the U.S. and around the world pay for hosting. Obviously size in cabinets/rack units/square feet, included features such as bandwidth, UPS/generator, management, etc. factor in. The configuration I am particularly interested in is three machines, one www, one search, and one database. The machines would be hooked up to a T1 and networked to one another over Ethernet. Anyone paying for colo or hosting in this same ballpark? How happy/upset are you with your provider?"
...about 5 years ago. Never paid a nickel since.
It's obvious by the way this quesiton is framed, you just want the dirt cheapest hosting there is. C'mon slashdot, let's try posting a decent story other than where to find the cheapest bandwidth (and probably on the shittiest backbone).
We have 3 servers (web, database, media) that we own and colo at a facility nearby. Most of our bill is bandwidth (we do 300GB a month sometimes), but total including the rackspace (6U's) we pay about $1200. Our host has redundent uplinks and a great facility, and we've had about 20 minutes of total outage in 18 months there.
I pay 1000CDN for burstable T1 (billing is adjusted based on bw usage).. i've spiked above what im paying for a few months, but they only increase billing if two months in a row.. i had 3 hours of downtime this past year, and it was because of the bell t1 circuit that was installed... otherwise worldcom has been perfect, and i would recommend them.
At $3.50/Gig, I ended up paying almost 50% over my base fee for a month of popularity.
As a result, I moved the more bandwidth intensive part of the site off to a cheaper server with beefier specs, and felt the pain right away. These guys have no monitoring included, ignore email requests for support, and charged me a consulting fee when I needed my server backed up and wiped because of a Slapper infection.
Not that I blame them, since it's not really managed hosting they are selling, but the difference in service is tremendous.
If you can afford Rackspace - go for it. I think they even have an option to give you a private net work -- link your servers directly one to the other so intra-server communitation doesn't count towards your total bandwidth cap.
Are you on drug(s)?!! Why not?
> a behavior which can justify their termination
not all employers are sour pusses, you know.
Obviously you want to ASK if it's okay to borrow some company bandwidth, and I have no pity for the guy that starts using it without asking. If they give the go-ahead however, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Some companies may give you free coffee, others may give you an ethernet port on a switch.. consider it a perk.
My website has been hosted, for free, for almost 3 years now on a machine that lives in exactly this situation. It exists with the full knowledge of the superiors, and the word is as long as the machine complies with company security policy, it can continue to exist.
Damage due to a hydro storm, tornado, flood, earthquake, blizzard, typhoon or any other natural force beyond the reasonable control of humans is an act of god.
Ie; you may be liable if someone falls off your porch because you didn't properly secure the handrail. You wouldn't be liable if they fell off because a 7.0 quake knocked 'em off.
So as far as proving it in court.. Easy.. They just say "yeah judge, there was a quake/flood/typhoon.. here's our insurance claim"
The sticky issue would be something like a lightning strike - one could claim that if they didn't have adequate surge protection then it was their fault by way of negligence.
Anyways.
You can always host for free on slashdot. Just install linux on a computer, post about it, and piggyback your website on the post.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
i signed up with eryxma in february. my login password didn't work. i contacted customer support twice and got no response. i then forgot about it cause i didn't have my website ready. 6 months later when i finally had my website ready my password still didn't work. sent them another email. again, no response. not a big deal...i'm out $16 but i won't use them again.
my colo provider provides this option also in the form of a 40 cent crossover cable. I guess with more than 2 servers we would then step up to a 4 port 100 mbit switch which I hear are running upwards of $10 these days
So you're saying you are an advocate of Palestinians blowing themselves up in buses full of school children? You can deceive yourself all you like, but please - you're not fooling anyone here.
Don't throw stones at the guys carrying guns. Whats the big mystery here? They provoked and brought an attack on themselves.
Remember, if you host a bandwidth intensive site (not even necessarily tons of visitors, but huge pages -- such as all busy threads on slashdot) use mod_gzip or something similar to it. Slashdot supposedly has mod_gzip installed, but they did not seem to have it configured correctly in the past -- not sure if they do now.
Anyhow, we use it on our properties that have message forums, and we easily take 120K threads down to around 10K per page impression. This could definitely help you save on your bandwidth spikes if you run a burstable or 95th percentile billing with your ISP.
mod_gzip here