[plug] DIY hosting - worth it?

[Jonathan Young]

On 10/2/2006, "hooker at iinet.net.au" <hooker at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>Quoting Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au>:
>> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:15 +0800, Mark J Gaynor wrote:
>> > 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
>> > --
>>
>> They must be 200Gb drives. Using compression to save disk space is like
>> using gold to save copper.
>
>No, 20 Gb drives as stated. Why assume that 160Gb upstream relates to a single
>copy of each pic????
>
>Hook

Not to nit-pick, but I read it the same way as some other people and
here's why:

>> 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.

So as far as I can tell, and as one would correctly read, you are
providing hosting (storage) for a professional photographer (someone who
takes large pictures and presumably knows a little about organising his
collection effectively).

He is using your server to store them.  During the first year of storing
things on your server, he UPLOADED 160Gb in 3 weeks.

Given 20GB of disk space (and assuming he is allowed a quota of 15GB), he
would still needed to have deleted around 90% of what he uploaded in
order to stop it from filling your server entirely.

Furthermore, if he uploaded onto your server 160GB of data, you would
need a fairly high monthly quota or some other kind of deal from your
ISP in order to not be charged for DOWNLOADED that amount of data at
your server's end.

I think we get what you meant now, but I don't think Mark's
interpretation was that unexpected.


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