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Webhosting For A Large Art Project?
First time accepted submitter heleneleh writes "I'm in a class at school on Electronic Writing and for my final project I'm trying to upload the entire contents of my computer to a webserver that will preserve the directory structure (I plan on using rsync so that it is continually updated as my files change). I need about 500 GB of space, and I'm willing to spend some money, so I was hoping Slashdot could suggest a reliable hosting service for that type of project. Traffic shouldn't be too high, but the storage space and ssh access are key. If there's another way to do this, I'd love to know about it."
I've noticed a lot of VPS providers charge almost nothing for processor time and RAM, but disk is still pretty expensive.
Many hosting services who offer "unlimited space" have other limitations you need to know about so you don't find out in the middle of transferring files that you can't do what you want to do. There are limitations on the number of inodes you can store, which for your purposes would mean the number of files you can store. So if the limit is, for instance, 50,000, then after you have uploaded that many files, you won't be able to upload any more no matter how much space you have left. The other limit I have run into is a daily limit on number of ftp file transfer which I ran into once. The limit on my hosting account was 2000 and once I reached that limit, I got locked out until I contacted tech support. Additionally, read the TOS because they might prohibit using the space to store files for archiving purposes.