This sucks
  • Harry_ThaBombShelterHarry_ThaBombShelter

    So I'm currently listed on  the HypeMachine popular page TWICE (not a common occurrence for me), and of COURSE, this happens when my host completely fucked me over by yanking my ftp server (I guess that's what I get for going with a local operation).  Apparently the spike in traffic from my UnderCover Week and Best Of 07 lists was wrecking their servers!  I mean, that's awesome on the one hand, but now I'm stuck with no mp3s, like none.  And I'm scrambling for hosting (I'm looking hard at Lypha.com, which has 1TB of Space (obnoxious) and 5TB of transfer for 8 bucks a month!), but in the meantime people are coming to my site and probably getting pissed when they notice that links from THIS WEEK are busted.  DUMB!

  • mjrcmjrc
    dude, that really does suck. popularity is a double-edged sword, for sure.
  • Harry_ThaBombShelterHarry_ThaBombShelter
    I was also wondering what the ramifications would be to set up my OWN server and run it from home.  I could probably piece something together and run a linux box just for hosting a few gigs of music.  Ah well.  Hopefully it'll all be sorted by Monday.
  • SongbyToadSongbyToad
    I love that hosting services scrabble about for your business and then penalise you for becoming popular.  I thought that was, to a large extent, the point of a website.
  • TimTim
    Harry - running a server from home may be relatively simple - but you would need a very fast internet connection to give you quick enough upload speeds to make the downloads run at anything other than a snail's pace (it would also slow your own connection speed down). I would try a new host before going that route to be honest.



    Hosts like Lypha offering such ridiculous amounts of space and transfer for such a cheap amount are overselling by quite a way and will instead limit your site by CPU hogging or other factors which would come from using anything close to the amount of space/transfer they supposedly offer. Dreamhost is another that oversells like this, but they have a reputation of letting you use more than most hosts before pulling the plug.



    -Tim
  • Mike MineoMike Mineo
    when someone finds the "perfect host", please let me and the rest of this forum know. though I am running fine at the moment, I have had numerous difficulties over the past couple of months that have really tampered with the audio on my site. and Tim is right in regard to the excuses hosts make; they often say that you are using up "too much resources" or some other BS just to get you to upgrade to a more expensive package.



    at this point, I am hosting my mp3's and actual site on two separate servers. yeah, it costs me twice as much, but I don't feel like both aspects of my site being compromised just because a host starts getting greedy. now, if I exceed the bandwidth or storage capacity then I can understand them pulling the plug, but I and many others here are certainly experiencing situations that are ridiculously out of the loop. at this point, I have a couple gigs of MP3 files on my HD as backup just in case something occurs again. it seems like every other month I'm having a problem... I can only imagine how the blogs with 4000+ hits cope.
  • sean gramophonesean gramophone
    How many megs/gigs of mp3s do you keep on your sites at a time? Weeks- and months-old mp3s will be an enormous (and in my opinion disproportionate) drain on resources.
  • sean gramophonesean gramophone
    Said the Gramophone does as you do, Mike, and has two separate accounts for mp3s and the site proper.



    For mp3 hosting we use site5.com, which came recommended by a few people including Catbirdseat. We erase mp3 files after a few weeks - I have no desire to offer old files for random pirating googlers. And we don't do massive megaposts like some blogs. I think we're on a now-unavailable plan but their current 7.5 TB bandwidth for $5/mo. plan still looks like it would suit most of you very well. We've been using them for over a year now I think and have been exceptionally happy. The most stable hosting provider I've ever used, actually. (Though this means I can't vouch for the tech support.)



    You can look at things at: http://www.site5.com



    although if you want to let me be the referrer, you can use this link: http://www.site5.com/in.php?id=35667
  • Harry_ThaBombShelterHarry_ThaBombShelter
    I delete mine when they're about 3-4 weeks old.  I only did a few "mega-posts" for an end of the year blow-out.  I usually post three songs max (when I'm reviewing an album or a concert).  I am going to look at Site5.  I'll tell you what would be perfect is 1gig of space and as much bandwidth as they can spare.  I'm perfectly content to use Blogger for hosting my site, so all I need the hosting for is uploading my mp3s.  When I started I used google pages, but I tried that on Tuesday, and I was over my bandwidth limit in about 8 hours!



    Thanks for the tip on site5, Sean, I'll give it a look.
  • Harry_ThaBombShelterHarry_ThaBombShelter
    Hmm, as I look at site5, it's a pretty steep initial fee (60 bucks out the door for 3 months), whereas Lypha is only 15 bucks for the first month with free setup.  I think I might try that one first, so if I don't like I'm not stuck for 3 months.
  • sean gramophonesean gramophone
    that does seem like good reasoning. looking around, though - food for thought.
  • TimTim
    I've had no problems with Dreamhost so far (where I host my mp3s), and I've burnt through a few hundred gigs of transfer (well under 1 GB of space though), but others haven't fared so well. I have my site hosted at HostNine with all my other wesbites, but to avoid any problems with them I host my mp3s elsewhere (at least then if my mp3s go down, my site doesn't).



    -Tim
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