This is a public service announcement. My Host provider (1and1) has in formed me that traffic on ko4bb.com has consistently and grossly exceeded the unlimited bandwidth allocation specified by contract(!!!) They have also turned off my service a few times this month to emphasize the message. I have been a customer for about 10 years but apparently nowadays that does not count for much.
This must be the new math, 2TB/month > infinite, or maybe unlimited is not the same as infinite... It turns out that many providers have responded the same way when asked if 2TB/month was less than the unlimited promise of shared hosting. Therefore I have to upgrade to a better class of service. As expected, there is a big price gap between services that offer unlimited bandwidth (they are all cheap shared hosts) and those that offer "only" 2TB/month (typically virtual private systems or managed servers). The cost goes up by a factor of about 10 or more. I have identified a new service provider: MyHosting.com and I am in the process of migrating everything, including the 65GB or so of manuals and related files (and the other 60GB of other stuff). The new service is now a Virtual Private Server, as opposed to a shared host. That means I have my own private virtual machine and full access to the OS, which is a blessing and a curse, as I can do anything I want (pretty much) but I have to do everything else too myself (like software maintenance). The price has gone up significantly, but MyHosting.com has a nice setup where you can pretty much rent as much CPU/memory/hard drive and bandwidth as you need, and it is easy to change on the fly. I am in the process of setting up the new server. I will make an announcement when it is online, probably in a couple of weeks. There may be a short interruption while the DNS caches are flushed. Be assured that none of the manuals are lost, but there were a large number of manuals uploaded this month and they are going to be in temporary storage (unsorted in the Stuff Not Sorted folder) for a little while. Also, I will ask you to postpone making large uploads until I have moved to the new server. I will turn off uploads a few days before the switch. I may have to turn off downloads on the current site if 1and1 gives me too much of a hard time. Please be patient. Thank you for your patience and your support. Didier KO4BB _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
