[plug] DIY hosting - worth it?, Re: [plug] DIY hosting - worth it?

[hooker at iinet.net.au]

Quoting Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com>:
> 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.

My apologies, I really hadn't thought to read what I wrote in that way. You're
quite right, I should have said ".. uploaded from the server .." rather than
allowing people to infer that the data was uploaded to the server.

English !! :)

Hook