Hosting
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I would appreciate any information you guys can give me about the ISPs you use to host your mp3s, including price info. (That is, if you use a paid host and not rapidshare, YSI, .edu, etc.) For those of you who don't mind disclosing how much bandwidth you go through, that would be fantastic to learn as well.
Said the Gramophone has for the past two years used a .Mac account, which costs US $100/year. That includes 1 gig of space and bandwidth that's officially capped at 20 or 30 G. That said, I have never heard of -anybody- "going over" their bandwidth, and so I suspect that Apple does not currently restrict it. Unfortunately, there's no way that I know of to monitor your bandwidth - so I don't even know how much saidthegramophone goes through. (This is why I am curious about how much others use; it will help me gauge how much we need.)
I am considering changing providers when our current subscription ends, because of Apple's hardline policy with regard to cease & desist letters and the chance of losing a bunch of money. -
The bandwith is 1TB for .mac.
I use .mac also and really like it. I haven't had any problems with cease & desist letters, is that a common thing? -
No, it's not common. In the history of StG, we have received 3. One the first year, two in this past year.
Or rather, Apple received three. These are cases where a label, artist or RIAA/CRIA/IFPI complained directly to Apple. And of course we complied with the cease & desist. But Apple's said that if they receive another one, they will terminate our account. In theory this could happen, say, two months into our new subscription - and then we'd be out $80.
If I can't find a better solution I'll stick with Apple, but I'm just wondering about the other options. (And about what kind of bandwidth I'll be looking for.)
(Oh, and I hadn't seen that 1TB upgrade - which happened earlier this month. Prior to that there was a cap, like I said, and which I am sure that fluxblog and stg both must have gone over, over the years.) -
I'm fairly hppy with ezarchive its a $120 or so a year. you get 5 gb and I too have never had a problem (except for website crashes and occasional downtime)
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i'm really happy with MediaTemple--for me, it averages out to roughly 11 bucks a month for 75GB of bandwidth and 5GB of storage. I've never had a problem from their end (I know Stereogum did, though), and they have great 24/7 phone support for all of my questions that arise out of me being a web dumbass. I can't give them enough props, actually, for not charging me when I doubled my bandwidth three months ago (I only had 30GB at the time, and stupid Stereogum decided to link to a file).
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I'm on a dedicated server provided by Daxal Communications (parent company of Surfthe.us). I pay the company with in-kind promotion, but the level of service I get would cost about $100/month. I've basically got the run of a dedicated server (though it is shared with a small number of other websites), and we have been burning through 40 - 50 GB/month, recently, with plans to step things up considerably in the coming months. Our limit is 3,000 GB/month, and the connection is unthrottled 100Mbit/sec.
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ezarchive has been great, apart from the occasional crash. $29.95 for one year, 4.7 GB of storage and unlimited bandwidth.
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agreed on the ezarchive tip
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didn't Good Weather for Airstrikes get their EZArchive account revoked for BW overage, though?
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i dunno if it was permanent but supposedly their music video post caused an ezarchive crash or two
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... get a friend who is at college or university to host for you ;)
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Yeah, I second the college/univeristy thing. It's very helpful. That and if you make friends with someone who works for your web host...that's even more helpful.
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i need to look into that when i get back into grad school. hopefully this year so i won't have to use rapidshare ever again!
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bethanne...ezarchive plans start at $5.95 for a whole year...i'm sure you can afford that...you should look into it. it would make a world of difference on your site, trust me.
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chris, i saw that. i'm considering it for the time being. because six bucks a year is pretty cheap for me.
i'm trusting you on this one. i'll ponder it for a bit. -
Okay, so I've now found the Bandwidth meter on the .Mac control panel, where it does still say "10 GB Data transfer/month". But yes (ha), we used the better part of one TB last month, so, uh, we'll need to look at something like EZArchive, or try risking .Mac again I suppose.
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ezarchive is pretty good - and could work well as a short time solution. It's only gone down once while i have been using it, but it seems to be stabilising
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i guess i should clarify that i don't think we're over our .Mac bandwidth limit (it seems to be 1TB now), but even if we were, they've never enforced the limit in the past. all i meant by the "but ... so" was that 30GB a month won't do us, no.
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I'm sticking with Media Temple. Never had a crash, and you get full data support (no. of downloads, bytes, traffic, etc.).
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Just heard someone going on about Filelodge.com, anyone using it? Had a quick look and it seems you get 500mb and unlimited bandwidth all for the princely sum of zilch. Surely too good to be true?
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this is my host. I recommend it:
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I use Dreamhost (https://panel.dreamhost.com/). I believe LHB suggested it to me. I could be wrong about that, though.
Ordinarily it's perfect, but every once in a while (like now, apparently) it's spotty. Even so, I'm still a fan. -
i use dreamhost too. occasionally their database servers go down and it's annoying... but they're usually quick to fix things and their customer service is nice. plus, they're cheap and offer nice packages that grow monthly (like gmail).
but... recently they sent an email about people using their accounts to "distribute unlicensed copyright content in violation of US and international copyright laws." which caused my heart beat a little faster. it seemed like a generic email and mentioned anime, movies and software too... so... -
yeah, also with Dreamhost, same feelings. Great 95% of the time, the other 5% when they go down and all I can do is open a ticket and wait, I'm annoyed beyond words.
But they were cheap and offered a lot of space/bandwidth...
I didn't see that email about copyright materials. They were pretty good about the C&D I got last year though, didn't shut me down - just removed the offending material and let me know. no biggie. -
I'm trying out filelodge now and it seems to work pretty well...it was down for a little while yesterday, but the downloads look good. I used YSI for the most part in the past, since I won't ever have to worry about deleting files and the like, but EZarchive does look pretty good for 6 bucks a year.
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I'm cheap, and I post mp3s only every now and then, so I just use YouSendIt.
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I'm going to assume that no-one has mentioned ourmedia yet because your bandwidth needs are far in excess of mine. But it's free forever, they host unlimited numbers of files and don't mind if they're large files either. It took me half an hour to set up accounts with them (and archive.org, where the files are actually kept). They provide easy to use upload software and exist pretty much invisibly in the background, just providing space for my podcasts. I thnk they may be a bit slow downloading, but with subscription feeds and broadband, who cares?
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I emailed Dreamhost to ask them (explicitly) about how they would react to (illegal) mp3blog hosting and they said they wouldn't want to do that, and that they had no set policy but would very probably terminate an account about which they received a C&D. Frank's experience is more pertinent, but that's the message I was given in friendly, clear and no uncertain terms.
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I have a site on Dreamhost, and the warning about posting mp3s while not the copyright owner was in a recent e-mail from the hosting company. I'll see if I can dig it up and quote the contents.
I host at three companies, JaguarPC (I don't recommend), Dreamhost, and Media Temple. Dreamhost is the best value, but can be a bit volatile, and media temple has been rock solid, but a bit pricey. -
I cannot believe how much you get from ezarchive for $29/year -- or whatever I paid. I've got about 3gb of mp3s currently on my site -- haven't had a need to rotate them off yet.
As far as I can tell it is unlimited bandwidth, but there is also no way to measure how much I've used. I suppose if I wasn't on blogger than I could run a little script that would tell me how often the mp3s were downloaded, but currently I just don't see the need.
How ezarchive can make a dime off of this is astonishing to me.
Rob
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Is there such a thing as a little script you can put on your site to see how often files are downloaded .. if there is I would be interested for the contrast podcast.
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There is -- but I don't know what it is/how it works. It's on Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands (I think) and it shows the most clicked on links -- I would assume that it also provides a list of how many times each link was clicked.
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Oh, yeah. Burning oak has that too.
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aww yeah we do. It's called MyBlogLog, but the free version isn't exactly the best service, it's just kind of amusing.
Tim, do you have any statistical programs like AWStats on your host's control panel? That provides accurate counts of how often a file is downloaded, at least for your own personal info. MyBlogLog just shows how many people clicked it the day before, but it wouldn't count things like download programs and feed downloads. -
I'll have to ask my brother who hosts my sites for me. Dammit!
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I wouldn't use a host that doesn't allow me access to the server logs. I can run whatever statistical analysis I want on my traffic logs. I get as much detail as I can handle.
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I host my site through a company called Be-Hosted. Own my own domain name. But, I use EZArchive along with a few others for MP3s.
I've had my site, in one form or another, for 3 years now? But, only started using EZArchive this week, so can't really speak as to it's reliability. -
i use dreamhost, and whie its been pretty solid thus far, there have been some really strange happenings as of late. but they have been fairly quick to resolve whatever problems i have encountered. if you check slickdeals.net from time to time they have links to cheap webhosting deals.
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Someone mentioned File Lodge, a free hosting service I have been using. I've been happy with it but recently got an email from them asking me to verify my account by sending them a text message via my cellphone. I haven't done it, and their website says that they won't necessarily be terminating accounts if you don't text message them, but they are trying to verify legitimate users and the text message makes it easier for them to do so. I may try ourmedia if File Lodge drops me. I'm not sure how they define legitimate use, but I know they have had some growing pains and outages.
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I've been using ezarchive since I started. I also have the $29/year account. I've been posting some of my larger photos up there as well. I've started to notice that ezarchive is not the best for photos. There's been times when not all the photos load, or it will take a long time to load. It may just be that by chance I had something like a dozen large photos on the main page at once.
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We use PowWeb for all the Toolshed stuff (don't know the cost, hey, I do promo not the beancounting ;-)
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I went over my data tranfer quota this month on .mac. Looks like my iDisk will be down for two weeks because of it. I transfered over 25 gigabites in 2 weeks off the site. Does ezarchivehave a similar data transfer quota?
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whoa, seriously? yikes. that's never happened to me...
holy crap - they have majorly changed .mac transfer stuff... you can only use 5G per 15 days... that's insane...
... StG has DEFINITELY gone over that so far this month... i wonder what is going to happen... -
Wow, that's pretty bad. Hope you're not in trouble, Sean, I imagine you've exceeded that by quite a bit!
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As far as I'm aware ezarchive doesn't have any data transfer limit. I've never run across it being mentioned here or anywhere else, and I imagine there would be a fair few disgruntled people if it was suddenly revealed they did have one.
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If you have 1 Gb of space then you get 10 GB transfer space
I have 2 Gb so i get 25 GB
If you move up to 4 GB storage space then you get a whopping 250 GB. I don't think I'd be going over that anytime soon.
I just don't understand why Sean or Fluxblog haven't ever gone over. -
I just posted this on the .Mac Forums and got this response - "Same thing just happened to me!!! I think there is something wrong with the data transfer quota!! I used up like 5GB in two hours. Anyone know what happened?"
Sounds like this could be bad news for my wallet. It costs 100 dollars to upgrade. -
It's tough for an MP3 blog to exceed 250GB, but if you get into 24/7 streaming, it could happen with a decent size listener base.
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Taylor, doesn't Fluxblog remove the links after a couple days/a week? That might be why it's manageable.
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Fluxblog and Said the Gramophone both remove songs after a week or two, but both of us still regularly use more than 250 GB/month.
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damn, thats alot of bandwith.
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