Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: About to get Web Hosting, anyone who's had bandwidth woes please advise

queri opened this issue on May 01, 2002 ยท 11 posts


JHoagland posted Thu, 02 May 2002 at 12:34 PM

Check the fine print of the hosting company- they may offer "unlimited" bandwidth, but there is probably a clause about "excessive traffic" (which is, of course, based on their judgment). Also, many places don't allow "nudity" and may or may not accept Poser-type nudity (even if it doesn't involved real people, etc.) The biggest thing to watch out for is how they notify you that they will turn off your website. When I went over my traffic limit a few months ago, my hosting company (Globalspace Solutions, whom I have been with for over 3 years) shut off my website without telling me. They claimed that they sent me an e-mail to my old e-mail address. And, of course, my usual e-mail address is at my domain name... which they turned off! That's right- when they turned off the website, e-mil was shut off also! And, now it seems that I've gone over the traffic limit for April as well. (And, yes, they shut off my site again, but this time they gave me advanced warning and I told them not to shut off the e-mail.) I will be switching to hostonce.com as soon as Network Solutions/ Verisign gets their act together and switched my DNS information. To make a long story short, they keep sending the "please verify this change" e-mail to my old e-mail address... even though I have been submitting changes online AND faxing them change requests for the past 2 1/2 weeks! (The moral to this paragraph is that it is a MAJOR issue to change information with them, so find a hosting company that you are happy with and don't change it.) --John


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