http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/03/08/geek-news-central-server-getting-crushed/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/03/08/geek-news-central-server-getting-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-1817 Bud Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:43:35 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/03/08/geek-news-central-server-getting-crushed/#comment-1817 In our discussion yesterday, I was actually impressed by how little you are spending on hosting (even though it is a lot on a low revenue start-up basis). It's not just bandwidth where you are suffering but also server maintenance per your posts on the management interface to GoDaddy. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> As you scale up, you might want to think about going for more of a datacenter approach. In particular, I think you will need a real sys admin and a hosting service like rackspace (currently judged by netcraft to be the most reliable). <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> Companies I know that are running their business on the web typically spend between $900 and $1500 per *month* on hosting. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> The previous poster mentioned Laporte's solution, Coral, a volunteer content distribution network to lower bandwidth hits on any one server. That works fine for smaller scale bandwidth distribution but could turn out to be as unreliable as some of your current solutions once you scale. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> Good luck, Bud In our discussion yesterday, I was actually impressed by how little you are spending on hosting (even though it is a lot on a low revenue start-up basis). It’s not just bandwidth where you are suffering but also server maintenance per your posts on the management interface to GoDaddy.

As you scale up, you might want to think about going for more of a datacenter approach. In particular, I think you will need a real sys admin and a hosting service like rackspace (currently judged by netcraft to be the most reliable).

Companies I know that are running their business on the web typically spend between $900 and $1500 per *month* on hosting.

The previous poster mentioned Laporte’s solution, Coral, a volunteer content distribution network to lower bandwidth hits on any one server. That works fine for smaller scale bandwidth distribution but could turn out to be as unreliable as some of your current solutions once you scale.

Good luck,
Bud

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/03/08/geek-news-central-server-getting-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-1816 TheKaptainK Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:40:39 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/03/08/geek-news-central-server-getting-crushed/#comment-1816 Check out what Leo Laporte is doing with his podcast. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> <a href="http://leoville.com/blog/index.php/TLR/comments/podcast-change/" rel="nofollow">http://leoville.com/blog/index.php/TLR/comments/podcast-change/</a> <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> This may help. Check out what Leo Laporte is doing with his podcast.

http://leoville.com/blog/index.php/TLR/comments/podcast-change/

This may help.

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