[plug] DIY hosting - worth it?

[Mark J Gaynor]

I would like to know what kind of compression you are using to get 160 Gb
onto two 20 Gb drives and how much your monthly quota is.

Mark
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On 2/10/2006 at 3:12 PM hooker at iinet.net.au wrote:

>Quoting Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au>:
>> DIY hosting - is it worth it?  
>
>I've been running my own domain on an ADSL line for quite a few years now.
>The
>big problem here (Kardinya) is completely shit power! Half a dozen outages
>a
>month without fail.  iiNet's ADSL service however, is no problem.
>
>I host pix for a mate who's a professional photographer - currently
>185,000 of
>them. The first year he used my server he uploaded 160 Gb in 3 weeks. In
>spite
>of the poor quality infrastructure (i.e. Synergy), he's happy because
>hosting
>companies really don't want to know at those data volumes.
>
>For the small amount of data which is really mine, the whole thing works
>like a
>dream.
>
>The server is Debian, and oldish but stable kernel, a pair of 20Gb drives
>(a
>backed up onto b and vice versa) and a Gig of RAM. The filesystem layout
>is a
>(minor) problem, but I'll replace the server in the next couple of months
>and
>fix that problem.
>
>Hook
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