Amiga.org Disk-space and Bandwidth Issues to be resolved soon

[buzz]

Just wondering, but are you saying that the current donations and adverts don't cover the hosting costs currently, which is why you need more funds or just a general funds always help type thing ? Im certain this site must be in profit by now if it was only paying for a 100gb hosting plan

[buzz]

In january my mobile phone traffic alone was 51GB.

There are soo many different Linux ISOs to download!

[buzz]

Come one guz, what is 100GB transfer p/m these days? Wanna free hosting? Fell free to PM me

amiga.org don't want free hosting, nor advice on hosting I guess, which was made clear to me from previous discussions. 100GB isn't much though I would agree (in terms of bandwidth, its certainly a fair amount of forum traffic). ExoticA server for example did 2.3TB last month (although it was a heavy month).

[buzz]

If you live in the UK you could host it from home with Virgin, as they have a 50Mb bandwidth unrestricted, they are in process of releasing 100mb.

01. The main post is already about them upgrading.

02. makes no sense at all in relevance to amiga.org hosting.

03. Hosting a server at home on a cable connection is hardly the same. I'm happy you are pleased with your server specs.

as for the comment on hosting at home on virgin.. - you are confused about downstream/upstream speeds - not saying you cant but you probably wouldnt want to host something like this at home. and amiga.org isnt even in the uk so it's a little irrelevant

[buzz]

Anyone who'd suggest hosting for "free" or on a cheap service has no idea why people pay more. How would you like it if the site was inaccessible once or twice a day, a fraction of the speed, or had hosting service added Javascript which occasionally downloaded malware to your Windows machine?

I think when the word free was mentioned it was more referring to kind people offering to host it rather than a free web host. $40 a month hosting would be fine for this site though, as it has been on that sort of hsot for ages with no problems right?

[buzz]

Then there's server loading. How many other sites are hosted on a single server with a $40 hosting plan? Amiga.org wouldn't necessarily need to get too popular; one of the other sites on the server could gain popularity, or someone could piss off a script kiddie and start a (D)DoS, and poof! amiga.org is crawling or unavailable.

I mostly agree and I don't like hosting providers that oversell hugely, give you a crappy web admin panel on a shared machine with 1000 other users - However amiga.org has been living on shared hosting and has managed so perhaps my view on shared hosting is worse than the reality. Certainly there are some very decent Virtual Server offerings around now also - and so long as there is enough io/ram/cpu for all the users then things will be fine.