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Number: 5382
From: "negusm"
Date: Thu Aug 19, 2004  6:14 pm
Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] I'm deleting my web site...

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Re: [ASC McLaren ] I'm deleting my web site...

I only push like 500MB per month and now I have a 6GB/month limit.
My site is very specific and not highly traveled. If it "explodes",
I will move it again...$17.50 a year ain't gonna cramp my wallet at
all.

I used livin4.com before and they were awesome, but they wanted $15
per extra 100MB of space.

As to backups...I had my site setup to FTP a site backup to my local
server every week. With the new site, I can do it manually but I
did not see an automatic backup option.

On top of that my FTP machine is striped with redundant raid in case
one HDD crashed. I also backed all my data (email/web sites/etc) up
to a DVD last night.

Momma didn't raise no stupid computer geek...

:-)

-Mike



--- In ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com, "SNP Marq" <infosyssec@i...>
wrote:
> Just remember to always keep a complete BACK UP on your own
computer. Bargain web sites and hosting providers are great UNTIL
they disappear because their business model wasn't profitable.
>
> And check out your terms of service to see what kind
of 'bandwidth' they are going to provide you for that money...
because some of them have pitiful bandwidth allocations AND you are
hit with an 'overage charge' for any bandwidth you consume in a
month that is over that amount. Bandwidth cost the hosting
providers ( as nothing in life is free ) and if they find your web
site is a large consumer of bandwidth they will either try to raise
your rate, or make you pay for the overage... or they will simply
find some lame excuse to kick you off their service.
>
> I have a number of web sites running on four web servers and I
consume about 200 gigabytes of bandwidth per month. Those 'econo'
host providers would welcome me on to their servers UNTIL they
figured out how much traffic was flowing through my web sites and
than they would find a fake reason to kick me off or increase my
monthly charge. This holds PARTICULARLY TRUE for those host
services that proclaim 'unlimited bandwidth'. It is sort of the
web hosting company's equivalent to a bait and switch... they bait
you on to their service, let you get comfortable there and then try
to knock you up when they find out your consumption is high. They
would prefer to have 1000 slow and unvisited web sites ( all paying
a monthly fee ) than to have one web site that could consume the
same amount of bandwidth as those 1000 slow customers.
>
> Nuff said... just thought I would share that sage of wisdom. But
most importantly keep a complete and current backup of your web site
on your personal computer....
>
> Marq
>
>
> I own four web servers and I gave up on the 'commercial' hosting
providers because you simply couldn't trust them to be around for
any longer then it took to :
> a) find out that they weren't making any money...
> b) find out that the work of providing the service wasn't worth
the effort
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: negusm
> To: ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:59 AM
> Subject: [ASC McLaren ] I'm deleting my web site...
>
>
> ....and putting it on a NEW SERVER!
>
> Whoohoo! 600MB of space for $17.40 a YEAR!
>
> I had 100MB limit on my old web hoster and was up to 98.2MB by
last
> week.
>
> Funny thing is I was paying $20/yr for 100MB and now $17.40/yr
for
> 600MB!
>
> -Mike
>
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> >
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