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Monarchsnake
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 Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject: Question About Site Building |
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Is Anyone here fluent in website talk? lol I've been working on a website for some time, but I'm still unsure about bandwidth and MB.
So My Question is, Is thirty GB Of Bandwidth enough for Traffic and other various things it is used for? And 150 MB enough to hold files, and other things?
Don't know many folks who are into website making as much as I, Been pretty much self taught. So I figured I'd ask you you guys, and see if I can find my answer here. 
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Viv
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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That's a bit more space and bandwidth than my host provides (for free  ), but then, I don't get a lot of visitors. I guess the answer would be, how much traffic do you figure you might get?
(No, I'm not completely web-literate. Just have my own little ego haven.) |
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Monarchsnake
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| Viv wrote: | That's a bit more space and bandwidth than my host provides (for free ), but then, I don't get a lot of visitors. I guess the answer would be, how much traffic do you figure you might get?
(No, I'm not completely web-literate. Just have my own little ego haven.) |
lol I'm paying for mine. Thirty dollar set up fee at angelfire, and fifthteen dollars a month for it. Pretty good deal if you ask me, tho domain name changes are more pricy then Moria Mithril almost. 
I've wanted to do a website for so long, I've based it on Middle-Earth (Not a Personal Site), something I finally feel at home doing a site about but I really have no clue how many vistors it will get.
I suppose that all depends after I launch it fully and how people will preceive it.
Not trying to have a ego trip, but I worry that prehaps the traffic space isn't enough or something.
This is probably due to seeing website hosts that offer lots of bandwidth and space, and then I look at my space and bandwith Thinking Grahhhh!! Maybe it isn't enough.
Elladan: You do worry too much. I keep telling you to keep calm and collected, but you never heed my warnings. (rolls eyes some, playing around on the internet)
But I'm just wondering, what the heck Bandwidth really means, and how much bandwidth per vistory is used. I'm probably just overly obsessing over it, when I don't need to.
Anyway, I'm not entirely site endowed either, I know some things but nearly not enough or at least in my opinion I don't know enough.
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Viv
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Well, for comparison, I pay $30/year for bannerless hosting, domain registration/renewal, FTP uploads, 20 megs of space, and 2 gigs of bandwidth. I've never used all of the space, but my sites are all fairly low-traffic and I optimize the hell out of my graphics. For $15/year, I could get the same service, just with a banner advertisement.
I haven't used these guys, but I know there are domain registers who charge a little as $8.95/year. If you have hosting set up elsewhere, you can always register your domain through a cheap register and then just redirect it to the actual site.
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Robbie
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:42 am Post subject: |
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If you hit 30Gig of traffic per month, you've got a very popular site. This site kicks in at about 20Gig per month. Space used is 250MB currently - it's been around 2 years.
$30 per year that Viv uses is good.
Be careful if you need scripting as many hosts may put barriers on what you can and can't to. Those that don't have barriers you get script kiddies who can pull down the entire server. Those that have barriers mean you can't write a good website. It's a very tough call for most companies to make.
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DarkElfChilde
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this is what I use:
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very good in my opinion.
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Robbie
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Without being too blunt, we would rather you did not advertise other hosts and link to them.
One of the reasons we setup a website is beacuse we offer hosting and it's advertising for it.
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Monarchsnake
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Yes, What VIV has does sound much better. All those plans actually sound rather nice, compared to my own.
My Only Problem is, finding a host that doesn't hold back a webtv user, angelfire being the only place that works with webtv perfectly.
Webtv is a little black box that is used as a internet, most people think it sucks but that's because no one takes the time to find out what you can do on here, too lazy to learn all the hard stuff :X those fools.
But the little box does it's limits, like trying to use a host site that isn't compatiable. Oh well, But I'm thinking of checking out your guy's suggestions to see if I can be proved wrong.
Thanks for all the info! You guys are really helpful!
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Viv
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| Robbie wrote: | Without being too blunt, we would rather you did not advertise other hosts and link to them.
One of the reasons we setup a website is beacuse we offer hosting and it's advertising for it. |
Sorry!  I edited my post above to remove any specific names. I also checked out the pricing scheme at Cracking Egg. Will certainly keep ya'll in mind when/if I change hosts. It all sort of depends on the hubby's indulgence ... he's the programmer, not me, and if I want a site that does anything more than basic HTML, I have to bribe him.  |
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Yavanie
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:43 am Post subject: |
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Yes, Robbie,
and it's effective. Am considering a small business requiring a simple web page or two. Ro is the expert at my house and he checked your services. Said they were very competitive. Won't be ready to run anything for a few more months but really hope you'll be hearing from me.
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