SitePoint who have kindly been hosting diyAudio for free for the last 4 years have recently moved servers and this one will be shutting up shop soon. No cause for alarm - we'll have plenty of notice before the plug is pulled 😉
In all seriousness though, we're looking for a new server, which means either somebody could donate some space on one of their boxes, or we could put round the hat and go get hosted at a pay-for place.
If anyone does have a spare box, all I need is the keys - I know linux and webserver configuration very well.
Anyway, consider this a first round message, we'll see if we catch any fish! 🙂
Cheers!
Jason!
In all seriousness though, we're looking for a new server, which means either somebody could donate some space on one of their boxes, or we could put round the hat and go get hosted at a pay-for place.
If anyone does have a spare box, all I need is the keys - I know linux and webserver configuration very well.
Anyway, consider this a first round message, we'll see if we catch any fish! 🙂
Cheers!
Jason!
it's gonna be hard trying to find someone with the bandwidth thoguh...how much are we looking at??
If i remember correctly.
Approx 1GB database
Approx 30GB outgoing
Approx 5GB incoming
those are monthly stats.
Approx 1GB database
Approx 30GB outgoing
Approx 5GB incoming
those are monthly stats.
We've been working on getting it down as much as possible, but the stats at the moment are roughly:
Bandwidth: 30GB / month
Database: 1GB
Requirements: Should run on a basic PHP/MySQL
Disk space: 100M - though a few GB would be nice for the odd database manipulation
Bandwidth: 30GB / month
Database: 1GB
Requirements: Should run on a basic PHP/MySQL
Disk space: 100M - though a few GB would be nice for the odd database manipulation
What would the cost be for a pay-server?
Also, are there rough estimates on how DiyAudio will grow and what space and bandwidth will be needed in a couple of years?
/Hugo
Also, are there rough estimates on how DiyAudio will grow and what space and bandwidth will be needed in a couple of years?
/Hugo
I wouldn't begrudge paying an annual subscription for this site. It could help filter out some 'noise' - As long as it was affordable for most people....
Rob
Rob
Hosting with 50GB/month of bandwidth would cost approx $1800/month (Verio). Probably best to try to find a generous sponsor or to setup a membership program. I'd pay $100/year to belong, if there was some benefit.
Suggested benefits of membership:
Ability to see long threads as one page
Unlimited searching
Ability to use HTML
Suggested benefits of membership:
Ability to see long threads as one page
Unlimited searching
Ability to use HTML
An average gun with DSL...say 512down and 256up...wun be able to carry the traffic right?? What's a reccommended transfer??
Less markup, less bandwidth
I'm blown away by the 30GB/month bandwidth usage! The first page of this thread requires a 70KB transfer. I took the first six comments and reduced the markup to less than 4KB. Scaling linearly, this should be about 10KB per page, an 85% reduction.
I didn't include a lot of the navigation and peripheral junk, but my mockup is functionally and visually equivalent to the main part of the page. Some of the typefaces may differ, but that's a simple matter of style and I don't want to spend my whole life working on this. I hope it may give you some ideas on reducing the size of your responses.
Tested in Mozilla, IE, and Safari:
http://saturn5.com/~jwb/contest/diy.html
Cheers,
jwb
I'm blown away by the 30GB/month bandwidth usage! The first page of this thread requires a 70KB transfer. I took the first six comments and reduced the markup to less than 4KB. Scaling linearly, this should be about 10KB per page, an 85% reduction.
I didn't include a lot of the navigation and peripheral junk, but my mockup is functionally and visually equivalent to the main part of the page. Some of the typefaces may differ, but that's a simple matter of style and I don't want to spend my whole life working on this. I hope it may give you some ideas on reducing the size of your responses.
Tested in Mozilla, IE, and Safari:
http://saturn5.com/~jwb/contest/diy.html
Cheers,
jwb
I should also mention that I have at my disposal many Linux boxes and an idle 1.5Mbps SDSL connection. What does your peak throughput look like?
Almost everything on the site uses GZip so actual individual transfers are much smaller than one would think. The bandwidth usage is mostly due to the fact that we serve about 20 million pages a month not to mention all the images etc.
Indeed there are a number of revenue generating options that we are considering and likely to adopt in the future. However, we really need to aquire a new server in the next 4 weeks. Ideally, if someone could host us for the next 12 - 18 months for free, it would give me time to get revenue generating features operational so we could then move to paid hosting if the need be with the means in place to support the costs. Otherwise I'm sure that a beg-a-thon is not far away.
...maybe my friend can get you guys hosted for a while...I'll contact him and him him through to u guys...
Or This
www.aspfreeserver.com
free hosting
100meg space
ftp access
php access
mysql
unlimited bandwith
www.aspfreeserver.com
free hosting
100meg space
ftp access
php access
mysql
unlimited bandwith
Again, our database is 1GB.
None of the commercial free places will be much use to us for 3 reasons.
1. We need a domain not a www.blahblahblah.com/users/diyaudio style address
2. Our database is really big.
3. We get huge amounts of traffic.
When I say we are looking for free hosting, I mean we need one of the members here to donate us some space on a box they have.
None of the commercial free places will be much use to us for 3 reasons.
1. We need a domain not a www.blahblahblah.com/users/diyaudio style address
2. Our database is really big.
3. We get huge amounts of traffic.
When I say we are looking for free hosting, I mean we need one of the members here to donate us some space on a box they have.
Sorry, I thought you said you need 100MB storage, and you transfer 1GB per month from the database. also the second site i said doesn't support mysql, only php
If I may suggest just one more site,
www.radish.net
$50 a year
1GB storage
40GB/Month
unlimited mysql
it looks like it supports php ( i think thats what the x means)
1 domain
i don't think $50 / year is too bad. Is it?
www.radish.net
$50 a year
1GB storage
40GB/Month
unlimited mysql
it looks like it supports php ( i think thats what the x means)
1 domain
i don't think $50 / year is too bad. Is it?
soundNERD said:
Members can donate a dollar a year... then whats left over can be put towards a prize, and we can have competitions and stuff.. 😀
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