Hey guys...wondered if anyone had any recommendations for web hosts? Looking for at least 1GB of space, 30-50GB of bandwidth per month and at least 10 e-mail accounts. Thanks, -=>Donald

I've been using www.myacen.com for almost two years now. Not a big company, but a small company run by a couple of australian freaks who give 24/7 personal help. :) Maybe not the cheapest, but I can vouch for the quality :)

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im currently using [prohosters.com](http://www.prohosters.com) but they've had a few crashes in the last month and im not 100% happy right now... with your requirements, your gonna b spending at least $40/month for a quality host

Thanks for the info guys..will check them out. Mike - Not really...hosting costs are really competitive now. For instance, Globat has a plan that's $7.50/mth (if you pay annual - 9.95/mth for quarterly) for 1GB space, 50GB bandwidth and 1000 e-mail accounts. Trying to narrow it all down. -=>Donald

I've been using CIHost (I know - you either HATE 'em or you like 'em). Personally, I have not had any problems with them (I have six sites being hosted by them at this point). Most of the complaints I read deal with customer support - which I guess is a bit slow - but if you have an ideda what you're doing, all the tools are right there to work with.

this is one of the most honest questions I will ever ask: What the hell do you need 1000 email accounts, 1 gigabyte of storage space, and 60 gigs of transfer a month for???? I mean, a gigabyte is 1024 megs. 1 meg can hold a good 25-100 individual pages, depending on individual file size (I consider the average web page to be between 10 and 60 kb, 60 being heavy). 1000 email adresses? 60,000 megabytes of bandwith a month? I'd say you're either starting a pornography site, or a web based forum like Renderosity... the porn site would probably be more lucrative btw, heh heh.

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ficticious - you'd really b surprised.. my personal site does 15-18gigs/month of bandwidth, i do a fair amount of traffic. my other site, iphotoforum.com is dynamic, so the bandwidth and traffic goes up daily. i also offer free email (pop and web) for all users who want it. just to give u an idea of large bandwidth, michaelmoore.com is doing an average 40gigs/day - istockphoto.com is doing around 10gigs/day

Donald, one word of advice.....I once went for a host that had a nice $/month, but their stuff was terrible. Took me more than 3 months to find out that potential customers didn't receive my emails (neither they nor me got any errors/warnings), lots of downtime, etc. Personally, it's probably been an expensive lesson to learn, and I learned from a lot of people that the more a host offers (especially 1000's or 'unlimited' is a good sign) the less they usually deliver. Any good, personal/flexible host will be glad to cut you a deal with more traffic and less of something else, or a nice sponsorship deal for free if you are getting that much traffic. (Together with the group I'm in, we got a great free deal with 40,000 hits a month, 15 gb/m inexchange for their own network banner). Not sure if that's usefull, but those hosting plans are no obligation :)

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o yea... i pay for 500megs of space. my whole website, mikepanic.com is maybe 8megs.. so y do i need the rest? i don't, all the time. when i do TFP shoots w/ models though i will often times scan the photos or and upload the full rez digi images in a zip file for them to d/l them when they can

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o yea... i pay for 500megs of space. my whole website, mikepanic.com is maybe 8megs.. so y do i need the rest? i don't, all the time. when i do TFP shoots w/ models though i will often times scan the photos or and upload the full rez digi images in a zip file for them to d/l them when they can

Oh Fictitous one...the 1000 e-mail accounts, no way I need that. The 500MB-1GB of space I do. My gallery takes up about 95% of my website. At ~200K per photo, that's around 5 images per meg. With the Spring and Summer coming up, I can easily see a thousand photos being uploaded to it over the next 6 months (at the Import Motion show I shot 232 frames and scanned in and kept about ~130). -=>Donald

okay, was just wonderin was all... still seems like a lot to me. I get 1 gig of space and unlimited traffic for 60$ CAN a year. No email addresses however, its from mah school, but i care not. I mainly use it to back certain projects up as we have direct access to the actual hard drive at school.

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donald - is having 200k images really doing you justice? your're really really limiting the 56k users to your site (i hvnt seen it yet) and your putting your self in a postion for more people to steal your work and use it for printing or submitting to some stock photo sites

Mike: For the most part, I think my stuff looks ok with one side having a resolution of 640. From there, I usually adjust the jpeg compression to keep it under 200k (think I started doing that because of the limitations here and grew to like the way it looks). I think if I was to knock the images down any further (either in resolution or going for a higher compression) I wouldn't be happy with the photos. I mean, I look at the stuff sometimes and wrinkle my nose at it because I'm sometimes coming from what is really a ~3900x2800 uncompressed image to ~640x460 compressed one. Someone decides to try and steal my work, nothing I can really do about that until it happens. At that point, I work with the laws to try and stop it - if I know it has even happened. Not gonna let someone else's dishonesty/greed effect how my stuff looks. Maybe after it happens though I'll have a change of heart. I mean, I can completely understand guys putting watermarks on their images, but it really does take away from their stuff visually (to me) when I see what looks like a great shot, but it has all kinds of artifacting in it a big name across the image somewhere. Don't read the above wrong either...I really appreciate your input on this. Hell, you're looking out for me... that in itself is totally cool! :) -=>Donald

Just a response to DHolman - It happens quite frequently (people using photos without written permission) - I received a copy of Organic Gardening - with one of my photos published inside...a full week later, I received a "letter of release" - the magazine wanting my permission to publish the photo - well after they had published it. Instead of playing "hardball" with them - I made them aware of the situation, and offered a "contract" of - over the next XYZ time period, they would purchase XYZ photos from me - instead of killing a client with a lawsuit (which I couldn't afford), we worked out an arrangement that worked for the both of us! Now - back on topic: I have used my site for a wide variety of things - me being more of a digital illustrator than photographer now, I use the site to FTP images and layouts to clients - this eats up gobs of space (I have 2 gigs worth - and have come close to filling it more than once)

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yea, ive had an image stolen, and you'd b surprised how many people steel photos off the net to use for some stoopid wallpaper or whatever on places like deviantart.com also, you have to remember that what looks great on your monitor at full rez, and then so-so on your monitor compressed more then likely looks totally differant on someone elses due to mis-configured video cards and improper color adjustments... and old monitors, and laptops, and the list goes on and on... also, having full rez images can really really look poopy on people running IE6 that dont have the auto-resize turned off, or people running 800x600 (still the most popular size)