On Jan 24, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Matthew Walker wrote: > On Mon, January 24, 2011 11:43 am, Kimball Larsen wrote: >> We have been hosting with BlueHost for years, but have run into problems >> with their >> plans: They apparently cap the upload bandwidth at only 8Mb/sec. We have >> many european >> customers with 20+Mb/sec internet connections, so a single customer >> attempting to >> download an installer from the BlueHost servers gets a dropped connection as >> they >> throttle the speed down to next to nothing for our account. >> >> Can anyone make a recommendation for a different host that provides better >> throughput >> plans? We are perfectly willing to pay for it - but BlueHost apparently >> does not offer >> anything faster at any price. >> >> I've seen folks hollering about Linode, but I can't find anything about >> speed caps and >> throttling on their site. > > Email their support and ask. They're extremely responsive, and would probably > have an > answer for you in minutes. > > --
Looks like we'll be trying out Amazon's S3. We only really need to warehouse and deliver data (training video files), so a full blown server is overkill. For our purposes, S3 looks to be VERY inexpensive and will handle exactly what we need. Anyone have experience integrating S3 data with an existing website? Care to share success/horror stories? - Kimball http://www.kimballlarsen.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
