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I currently have a active account with 2 hosting companies, and about to start transferring files on to my third account Monday. I was just wondering do most of you guys have multiply hosting accounts, and how many is too many? As my bandwidth usage goes up, I find myself shopping around for the transfer rate I need, and a price than makes me unafraid of the bandwidth I am going to use. 5000+ Gigs a month for starters :smoke:
you transfer 5+Terabytes a month - wow *stunned*
NO I just need to be prepared too, I am going to be hosting many different types of promotional items. Really 5T is not so much I am sure many people burn 10 times that amount, thats just a starting point right now. I would think in a few years if not sooner I might need 50T a month just to keep up.
I could burn 3-5+Terabytes a month just listing video feeders. Not sure I will take it that far, but burning bandwith is not that hard to do.
5 T a month dam you must be making the bucks LOL
Not really, and that’s like 3 times as much as I use now, but need room to grow. I am sure these hosted videos are going to burn a huge amount of bandwidth. I am about to finish a update to my main members site this week, and not to talk crap but once the affiliate program is open I am sure most people will be happy with the numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by pierrefitch
5 TB is not a lot of traffic, its about 20Mbps. This is quite common for any one doing MGP galleries or even anyone with a successful paysite that doesn't rely on plugins for their videos.
Max, if you are tired of testing and trialing and want to be hooked up with a good quality hosting company that will give you the support, speed & uptime you need to succeed, and will keep you happy for years to come....then give me a shout :D
cheers,
Luke
Ya man that’s what I am saying the 5t is not that much, its just a start. I don’t submit any FHG right now, or video previews that’s why I don’t use that much now, but like I said one way or another this is going to change really soon. I plan to amp up my bandwidth usage over the next year or so and 50T would not shock me at all.
This is why I have so many hosts right now I would really like to have 2 main hosts, but need to find once that will do what I really need them too. That is stable and fast/above average speed, with a price where the 50T I might run up will not cost me a fortune. :crybaby:
I don’t know if I am ready to play with any more hosts right now, and even for my main members site .10 a gig is about the max I can go now days on lets say a T at a time. (really the .10 a gig even for my main site is a bit much) Not sure about your pricing, but we can talk I guess
I think some people that have never seen my site might have a wrong impression Yes I pay the best 3 feed companies, and offer Live feeds, but in NO way is this the only content I offer Not by a long shot. I guess in a few weeks I am going to have to start handing out a few more free passes, but want to get some structural improvements made first. :construction:
here, max - i'll take care of it ;)
i recently reviewed max's site. it had more self-hosted videos than i see in 2 year old sites and some 3 and 4 year old sites. some of the videos are lower quality than others, but listed so they don't come up first. he also has some hosted pic sets, although not as many as videos.
btw, beside the pluginfeeds plugins, i maintain that feedsnow is the best feeds around because you can make them look self-hosted and because you can select which videos to show your members.
Thax Bass, I am going to offer some more passes just have to get a few things done first.
I am going to have to check out feedsnow too, but teen-frat content is all I can use right now. They look like they focus on Hunk content mostly, but I will talk to them for sure.
This all got me thinking about something, can I host the same domain on two separate hosts. Possibly host a subdomain with another company or some other way of doing this with out a totally new domain? :morning:
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Originally Posted by maxpower
Doubtful since you have to give DNS information on the host for each domain, so how could you list two different DNS on the domain record?
:yeah:Quote:
Max, if you are tired of testing and trialing and want to be hooked up with a good quality hosting company that will give you the support, speed & uptime you need to succeed, and will keep you happy for years to come....then give me a shout - Luke
I just did not want to put these new MGP galleries on the same server as the main site. I do have some very similar URL’s I can use for the MGP, if I have to go that way I will but one of my hosting reps said hes going to talk to some people about anyway to do this with sub domains and a few other ideas he had.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bec
Sounds like it will not happen, but it was worth a shot I guess :fucked:
you can do just about anything you want with a good quality host :DQuote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
Ya for sure they could split the domain up on separate servers with any one company I pick, but ideally it would have been nice to have to separate companies hosting different aspects of the site. Just not sure how much these MGP’s are going to drag down this host or that host.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilihost
I may have to have to play, and expand some of these agreements I have now with hosts to make sure the MGP’s load fast, but my main site should never even have a bit of additional drag during all this.
I can't really follow or understand why you would need more than one host unless you were really trying to be geographically diverse for redundancy or global latency issues, but it doesn't seem like that would be all that important for hosted video/photos. Just my .02.
I should think chilihost or any other good host such as ours national-net.com would be able to take care of you as a one-stop shop. It would be a nightmare for me to try and work with 3 different hosts.
Regarding your question, you can do something called round-robin DNS that would allow you to host one domain in two different locations. You'd have to get your primary DNS host to agree to set that up I believe.
Thanks man, I knew some how it was possible to do this I will bring this up with themQuote:
Originally Posted by JustBryce
I sent you a PM about my thinking behind this.
Sorry for screwing up the PM man, my friend is driving me nuts this AM cleaning and bitching about crap in my office. :loser:
You can do your DNS thorough your domain registrar if you use one like Enom that offers its own robust DNS. Then, if you change hosts, you never have to change DNS servers, only update the entries with new IP addresses.
You can also serve different parts of your site from different servers by using canonical domain names, like members.sitename.com tour1.sitename.com, etc.
For example, we serve our movie galleries from one server dedicated just to that purpose that has an unmetered 30Mbps connection. But our DVD studio website is on a different server, and the customer never even notices he's going to a different server for the actual serving of the galleries.
Also, a number of webmasters store their tours on one server, their members area on another, and their billing/join pages on another. If carefully thought out, you can maximize your bandwidth utilization on each server without going over, and then, as your traffic grows, you can load-balance traffic between different servers.
So, as Luke said, if you have a really good host, they will discuss and walk you through everything and make it happen for you.
THax Chip, that really does help me out, and you even taking it farther than my original thinking always extremely helpful.
I was just thinking about all these hosted videos I was going to be offering, and was thinking that I do not want them on the same server as my tour, or members area yet having them on the same domain would be ideal. Also their is varying pricing for hosting I can take advantage of with this configuration. But seems you/others have taken this farther that I had though about yet, seems again I am always playing catch up, but its good that it sounds like I am on the right track.
Max,
you could do subdomains and have them map to a different server
e.g. maxpower.com maps to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2
fhg.maxpower.com -> to 192.168.0.3
fhm.maxpower.com -> 192.168.0.4
This way you could have the same domain as you wanted to but with subdomains.
Luke, is there a setup that allows subdirectories to point to different IPs?
maxpower.com -> 192.168.0.1
maxpower.com/fhg -> 192.168.0.2
0.02 euro cent
The varying pricing is a large part of the reason we originally separated things out.
Our gallery server is on a provider with dirt cheap but still mostly reliable bandwidth. It occasionally runs a little slow, but it's never been down.
Our membership areas, tours, and billing are on servers with a much larger ISP with a more robust network that's totally rock solid and, in 3 years, has barely even burped.... but their bandwidth is about double the cost of the other provider.
So this way, we maximize what we can provide to our affiliates, while also maximizing reliability to our paying members.
Ya that’s my thinking exactly man, besides the bandwidth hosted videos, and galleries could run up is unsettling. :hmm:Quote:
Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip
Yes, its easy....as I have said already in this thread, you can do just about anything you want with a good quality host. Max, get your ass over to a quality host and they will set this all up for you exactly how you want it. You have spent loads of time on this, time which you could have spent earning money.Quote:
Originally Posted by DEVELISH
I tell ya what, email me exactly what you are looking for including disk, processor, bandwidth and price. I will put together a custom quote for you which includes full server management so that you don't have to continually stuff around with these issues, instead you can focus on making money.
cheers,
Luke
THax man, I am sure at some point I will want to switch my main host over to you, but right now I have to give my current hosts the first shot at making me happy. After all some of them I have been with for many years now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilihost
I am sure we can talk more when I really have a better idea of what I will need as far as bandwidth goes, right now I am just trying to cover my ass. You have a very good reputation as well as many people in the industry that I respect use you your service. I just don’t want to waist any of your time, until I for sure what I will need.
looking forward to hearing from you, mate!
cheers,
Luke
Ya I sure you will, but I need to grow into a few things, and need to learn exactly what I will need. Just hate to make agreements about things that could change over night right now man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilihost