nerd opened this issue on Apr 07, 2002 ยท 15 posts
nerd posted Sun, 07 April 2002 at 11:34 PM Forum Moderator
TheDaedalus, Yes 5 GB/MO. MissTara, I didn't read Chili's TOS, but most places that offer cheap bandwidth have restrictions on how you use it. I'll pick on Under-Host because they dumped me via this fine print... "Sites with banners, graphics or cgi scripts running from their domain used on other domains. Sites with picture galleries (This is any site where 50% of the files transferred is graphics) Sites offering download files or archives. (This is any site where 50% or more of there monthly traffic is from file downloads). Sites using more than 30% of system resources for longer than 60 seconds. Sites running multimedia files (QuickTime, Real Audio, Real Video, MP3)." If you do any of this they charge you $20/GB/MO. Lets see, Poser art site, lots of big pictures, Off Site links for people to download you stuff, And maybe a couple of AVI or MOV animations. Gee a typical Poser site only breaks this fine print 3 ways. My site burns 40-50 GB/MO (Most of that is to provide free stuff to this site. Giving stuff away is getting awful expensive.) The numbers are still tennative. They depend on how much interest there is and how much I can get the wholesaler to come down on prices. I know last month several high profile sites got their proverbial plug pulled by their hosts. I hope to find a way to help Poser artists avoid this problem. The prices will not be the cheapest on the net, but than again the service will not be the cheapest either. I plan to add scripts and services to the accounts that Poser folks will find useful, like an automated gallery and message board. I've found bandwidth as cheap as $0.40/GB/MO but the list of restrictins make it virtually useless. I believe sites that do this are using a bait-n-switch and should be slapped up side the head. They let you get moved in, everything set up and then inform you that YOUR site will be paying not the standard $19.95 a month, but $3000 a month. because you have to be placed on a special server. Sorry I'm ranting. I've had this happen after telling the sales department exactly what my site is and needs. Then a week later I get the nasty note from the abuse department.