I would imagine that the most serious aspect of kosmic's situation is where to get bandwidth. Most of the site traffic is not page downloads, it's mp3 downloads. If he's sending 2mb outbound on a 24-hour basis, just getting a DS1 from a carrier will cost him in the neighborhood of $3000 a month. He lives in the 95th percentile so he has to buy a price-protected span. Can't be burstable. Colocating at an ISP might reduce the price by $1000 a month or so, but much of that would be due to the local loop savings. Also, a DS1 would constrain his bandwidth by 25% so it's likely that a colocation price would actually be the same or more than a DS1.
He can host a site with that kind of throughput on a P2-300 running apache and linux, which can be had for less than one month's bandwith cost.
What I suspect he really needs is a no-charge bandwidth provider.
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I would imagine that the most serious aspect of kosmic's situation is where to get bandwidth. Most of the site traffic is not page downloads, it's mp3 downloads. If he's sending 2mb outbound on a 24-hour basis, just getting a DS1 from a carrier will cost him in the neighborhood of $3000 a month. He lives in the 95th percentile so he has to buy a price-protected span. Can't be burstable. Colocating at an ISP might reduce the price by $1000 a month or so, but much of that would be due to the local loop savings. Also, a DS1 would constrain his bandwidth by 25% so it's likely that a colocation price would actually be the same or more than a DS1.
He can host a site with that kind of throughput on a P2-300 running apache and linux, which can be had for less than one month's bandwith cost.
What I suspect he really needs is a no-charge bandwidth provider.