Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Hosting floppy collections
To prevend a hijack of the Treasure Chest thread, I opened a new thread about hosting floppy collections.
As some of you know, we're looking for a way to have our floppy transfers available for the masses.
My own collection is near to 1GB of data. In online / webhosting terms, this is a rather large amount of data.
We're talking several tens of GB of data, I'd say, if not a few hundred.
If we want to add scans of covers to that, the end isn't even in sight!
So what we need is an affordable solution to store those gigabytes and also have enough bandwidth and allowed traffic to get it to the people.
After a quick investigation of webhosts, I found a Dutch one which has unlimited space with unlimited traffic for EUR 30,-/month. It looks reliable, but it's rather expensive.
Also, I'm not sure if you need to be registered at the Chamber of Commerce (which I'm not).
Then there's a shitload of hosts that seem less reliable to me (as in: hidden rules, spam-ish impression).
A list of those is on Top 10 Webhosting.
Yuu guys know any of these?
Also, please let me know what you think the 'profile' of both the host and the site owner should be.
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