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Monthly Data Transfer Joel
In market for good webhosting provider
Let's see -- the statistics I have here from Peer 1 are as follows:
Joel Spolsky
I'm curious, is the 95% calculated as 95% max(in,out), max(95%(in,out)), 95% in + 95% out, or 95% (in+out).
Xn
in+out
Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com)
We recently dealt with a major bandwidth spike on our website. We learned that once you get into the 100GB+ range, it makes a lot more sense to pay for a fixed transmission rate than a fixed transfer limit. Many smaller webhosting companies will flatly refuse to handle a site in the >100GB range (even if they advertise that capability), and those that don't refuse, will charge outrageous fees (several dollars/GB). So if your site is that popular, I recommend looking at it from a megabits/sec perspective, not a gigabytes/month perspective.
Dan Maas
There are several reliable companies offering dedicated servers with 700-1000GB/month of traffic in the $100-$200 price range. I hardly call that outrageous.
Jan Derk
The tier 1s all bill 95th percentile of transmission rates, which is why many (most?) co-location facilities also bills that way. You generally only get "traffic" rates for shared servers. Smart shared server companies are using traffic shaping to ensure that you can simply never exceed the transmission rate that they want to pay for.
Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com)
FWIW, I consider "dedicated servers" to just be another form of "shared servers", except you're not sharing them. It's their hardware. That is, to differentiate against co-location facilities where you rent a cage with a drop and electricity, and bring in all your own equipment.
Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com)
Jan, can you post some URLs for me? We are using dinix.com on a $120 for 1000GB plan, but they give us no way to see how close to the cap we are (!). I wasn't able to find any other non-shady-looking hosting company that would offer more than say 200GB for less than $400/mo.
Dan Maas
Check out the dedicated server section at www.webhostingtalk.com.
Jan Derk
I use Pair Networks -- http://www.pair.com -- and their services are incredible. Very fast, all the features you'd want, very thorough web administration tools, etc. (And yes, the web administration tool does allow you to view how much traffic your site has gotten.) They have high volume shared-server accounts that might suit your needs: 120GB per month for $180. Dedicated servers start at 200GB and $250/month.
Ryan
Thanks for the links...
Dan Maas
EV1 has been out of servers for the last few months or so, because their current data center is full. That's hardly an excuse for a non-working order form though. They seem to be opening a new data center with Dell only hardware this week, but I would not recommend anyone to be the first one to enter a new data center.
Jan Derk
And yes Pair (together with Futurequest) probably is the best shared host available, but they get expensive if your traffic grows a lot.
Jan Derk
Graphpad.com has two dedicated servers at
Harvey Motulsky
I have been one the market for a dedicated server for some time and found www.oneandone.co.uk as the cheapest around (at least in the UK), at £49/month for a Win2003.
JSD
I have known about ISP that count by the megabits instead of 95th percentiles for a while now, but the problem is it's pretty hard to find them for low-cost hobby projects (which just happens to eat up a lot of bandwidth). Most non-profits I know that uses that much bandwidth
Li-fan Chen
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