[plug] DIY hosting - worth it?

[hooker at iinet.net.au]

(1) That's multiple copies of images being uploaded to multiple different IP
addresses (i.e. lots of different people looking at the pix)

(2) Who cares about quota? iiNet don't measure upstream transfers.

Sorry, I thought this was obvious.

Hook


Quoting Mark J Gaynor <mark at mjg.id.au>:
> 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.
> >
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