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Name: Coolvibes
Date: October 5, 2008 at 02:32:38 Pacific
OS: Vista/Xp media edition/Fe
CPU/Ram: 2.2 core duo/1 gig ddr2
Product: Asus
Comment:

Have been advised by website hosting provider that i exceeded my monthly allowance of 25.6 gig in one hour yesterday. They shut my site down to reboot server which could not handle the bandwidth. My Answer is to try and serve the files to my website from my 3.5 terabyte server which is connected to 8mb broadband wirelessly.
Question is can it be done and can someone point me in the right direction please.
Kind regards
Admin@raveskool.com

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Response Number 1
Name: StuartS
Date: October 5, 2008 at 03:44:08 Pacific
Reply:

What you are proposing is not really a solution. To serve files from your server you are going to need to be running a web server yourself in which case you might just as well do away with the hosting company and run your own web server.

Another thing to consider is that you may have a an 8Mb connection but this is the download speed. If you your connection is ADSL the upload speed is going to be considerably less. Less than 1Mb.

Then you may run into bandwidth problems with your ISP. 25.6 Gbs is a huge amount of data to transmit in one hour.

Stuart


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Response Number 2
Name: Coolvibes
Date: October 5, 2008 at 04:02:25 Pacific
Reply:

I See said the blind man, Thank you for your input most helpful. So what is the best way to make my files available all the time without burning the server and getting in to trouble once a week? Is there a solution to my problem how dose i tunes manage with their huge traffic bandwidth.

Kind regards
Coolvibes

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Response Number 3
Name: StuartS
Date: October 5, 2008 at 04:23:35 Pacific
Reply:

>> Is there a solution to my problem how dose i tunes manage with their huge traffic bandwidth. <<

Because they have something a little more than an 8Mbs broadband connection. They will have a direct connection to the Internet backbone, possibly via fibre optic running at 6Gbs, the same as your ISP does.

You can do this if you wish but it would cost you considerably more than any domestic broadband connection.

The only solution is to find yourself a web hosting company with a larger bandwidth allowance.

Stuart


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Response Number 4
Name: Coolvibes
Date: October 5, 2008 at 05:28:02 Pacific
Reply:

So it will cost me regardless of what hardware i own, i will search for some more options first but thanks for input lots to consider thank you.
Kind regards

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