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Webhosting For A Large Art Project?

Posted by Unknown on from the disk-ain't-cheap dept.

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.

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  1. WHT Forum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ - This would be a good site to review.

  2. Re:Dreamhost by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm probably pushing 1TB of photos on DreamHost. They're maybe 98% uptime but for something like I use it for it really doesn't matter. For what I pay it's great.

    Plus one of their employees wrote Ceph. (A FOSS distributed file system).

  3. Do you know ... ? by heatseeker_around · · Score: 5, Funny
    I assume that you know you posted your question on slashdot . So I can assume you know it is a cave full of nerds and geeks all over the place. Some are staring at you from the the ceiling, others are cowardly anonymous and invisible, some also pretend not to be nerds by referring to nerds as "they", "them", "the nerds"... hum...
    But all of them have something in common: they need SPECIFICS, they need to know EVERYTHING, they are paranoiac, they are whiners and they hate non-sense !

    Examples :
    • - You say, "I was hoping Slashdot could suggest a reliable hosting service for that type of project." What type of project? Define "reliable". (nerd 778537)
    • - To be more specific, why are you trying to upload the entire contents of your hard drive to a web server? (nerd 778537)
    • - What the heck is Electronic Writing that it needs a course separate from "regular" writing? (nerd 679911)
    • - 500GB of words is 55 metric arse-loads. What are you not telling us? (nerd 679911)
    • - You might have asked us what the best sports team is, frankly. (nerd 137809)

    Do you really expected to get any valuable answers with your non-specific question ? yeah... be sorry.

    To answer to your question anyway, I need to know what kind of movies are you trying to upload illegally ?