alepulp
Underboss
1540 Posts
    
Manchester, England
 | | 04/03/2007 7:56 AM |
| It seems we have been too successful and in March we used 23GB of Bandwidth from www.youradnd.co.uk. For the first time ever, I have been levied a charge of £350 for bandwidth in one month. This is about $600. Of course, this is not possible for me to absorb each month, or near each release.
So now I have to hunt for a better ISP - the existing one has some draconic limits and unrealistic charges. For instance, when emailing we have to split the file apart to send to eachother. Of course, this is possible and we do so. The email servers often drops emails, fail to connect and, some times, the email takes several days to arrive.
Their accounts dept. simply don't want to hear about the fact that they raise an invoice to me, and individual, that is over 3 times the annual cost of my hosting service with them
If you're interested, I presently use Netcetera, based on the Isle of Mann. I'd not touch this ISP again 
Can anyone recommend a new host for this domain, emails and 4 more domains that can provide a much larger bandwidth allowance than Netcetera and that has Frontpage Extensions enabled? | |
One of these days WoTC will update their tournament page when I'm in the top 5... they never seem to do when I'm in that bracket :(
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Duke of Spoils
greyhaze
Warlord
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Bert the Troll
Commander
3964 Posts
Adelaide
| | 04/03/2007 4:25 PM |
| My gawd. That is a heck of a lot of bandwidth.
I would use rapidshare until you sort something, ie keep it of your webpages as that is silly cost. | |
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LCS
Underboss
1928 Posts
| | 04/04/2007 2:12 AM |
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If it would be helpful, I can try to set something up so that you could temporarily mirror the current version on my provider for a month or so, until you can get things sorted out.
I use Dreamhost for hosting my own personal stuff, and I'm quite happy with them.
They occasionally have minor disruptions, but overall they are fairly reliable. I would estimate that their uptime is about 99.5%, which might not be good enough for running an online only business, but their hosting works well if the biggest priority is keeping the total cost in check.
Their bandwidth and disk space allotments are huge (150+ GB disk and 150+ TB monthly bandwidth for the 10$/month plan) and increase the longer you host with them. It is shared hosting, so high demand on your site or one of the others hosted on the same machine could potentially affect speed, but they seem to do a good job of balancing things so that they don't get too much load on any particular server.
The staff is somewhat eccentric (and very unconcerned about having an unprofessional appearance in blogs and newsletters), but they are good at what they do.
If you're interested, you can use the promo code "SAVE95DREAMHOST" to get 95$ off of any yearly plan if you sign up [disclaimer: I will make two whole dollars whenever someone signs up with this code]. I can also make custom codes to include extra "lifetime" domain registrations in addition to the one that comes with any plan [where lifetime means as long as you host with them] by reducing the amount of the discount by 15$ per extra "lifetime" domain registration, if you haven't already registered the other domains for a long time in advance and would prefer that.
Here's a link to information on their hosting plans: http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html
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Skirmisher
20 Posts
| | 04/04/2007 7:14 AM |
| I've never used the package (I track my collection on www.ddshoebox.com) but maybe you should take a look at using torrents to spread your software. I realize your package is not that big, but getting everyone who's downloading to share in the uploading would/should greatly reduce your bandwidth.
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alepulp
Underboss
1540 Posts
Manchester, England
| | 04/04/2007 9:18 AM |
| @ LCS - 150TB - awesome... I'll have to look into
@Android - hmmmm - that could also work...
I think I have a nice solution that is being worked on - the downloads will soon be up again. | |
One of these days WoTC will update their tournament page when I'm in the top 5... they never seem to do when I'm in that bracket :(
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SkYlyn3
Warrior
222 Posts
Williamsburg, Virginia
| | 04/05/2007 3:24 PM |
| | Bifur is for more than just tracking collections though. I hope you can provide the program to other players in the future as it has greatly improved my warbanding, and it could help others as well. | |
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smilinIrish
Sergeant
913 Posts
| | 04/05/2007 9:40 PM |
| | bifur has also improved my warband building. With all the ways to sort and filter the minis, it helps you quickly find efficient options. | |
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Krush
Commander
4050 Posts
| | 04/05/2007 11:46 PM |
| | Bifur is awesome, bifur is great, bifur is...is. Well it started out as a possible great rhyme. Seriously, the features on Bifur outweigh the mini-gen on Wizzos 2fold (more than that). As smiliIrish said, the filters help tremondously. My fave feature is the map selection. | |
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