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From: Gordon Henderson on 22 Apr 2008 10:55 In article <hejr04la4ujsk879niubblgm9rjttlo90i(a)4ax.com>, Geoff Cox <gcox(a)freeuk.notcom> wrote: >On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:20:07 +0100, Nick Kew ><nick(a)grimnir.webthing.com> wrote: > >>On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:32 +0100 >>Geoff Cox <gcox(a)freeuk.notcom> wrote: >> >>> This is a relatively low price (? )but what do you think of the server >>> spec? >> >>The expensive bit is the data transfer. What you get for that >>price will produce a negligible load on that hardware. >>Unless you have something you're not telling us about >>also running! > >nothing secret here! some audio files but total size of these 15MB. Are you sure you want your own server if that's all it is? As others have pointed out, it's the bandwidth that'll be the critical part of it all. I host some video files for a group of young people and once a year (UK Youth Parliament election time), the whole system gets crowbarred, but the rest of the year, nothing! You could serve those files off a well-setup 120MHz Pentium system, so anything reasonably modern won't notice the load. I tend to do more "customised" type hosting than run of the mill type stuff, so might appear more expensive than most, but can handle stuff out of the ordinary that others might not be able/willing to. If intersted, drop me an email with more details, but I suspect most general purpose hosting packages on shared servers would suit you. Gordon
From: Will Kemp on 22 Apr 2008 12:25
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:38:41 +0100, Geoff Cox wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:19:45 GMT, Will Kemp <Will(a)xxxx.Swaggie.net> > wrote: > >>http://csoft.net offer shared FreeBSD hosting, with apache etc, and >>shell access via ssh. No bandwidth limit and quite a bit of hard drive >>space. Month by month contracts. >> >>They seem to be reliable and tech support is generally very responsive >>and helpful. >> >>They're in Canada though. > > any downside to that? I would have thought not? No - just that you specifically asked about UK services. -- http://SnapAndScribble.com/will |