11 Dec
2009
11 Dec
'09
2:24 a.m.
Hartmut Noack wrote:
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Atte André Jensen schrieb:
Hmm, I think my family's hosting plan has 1TB/month transfer. Through
GoDaddy.com.
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David
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Hartmut Noack wrote:
OK - not really peanuts but not fearsome either. I got 2000 Gigs in my
contract and with say 16.000 plays per day(that is: near the limit), one
could seriously think about an upgrade to a contract with unlimited
traffic. I use this box for my job-purposes so I pay for it anyway, as
of now using only a tiny fraction of the traffic included.
And don`t you think, that with 15.000 users per day, all of them
interested enough to play songs from it - could it not be possible, that
one could make some revenue with such a site, that would pay for its
bandwith and maybe even for the hosted artists? ;-) If somebody is willing to make such a site, I
would be happy to
support it by offering collaboration in development of the site and
hosting it for free on my server....
I think bandcamp was a valid point regarding
bandwidth. For instance I
had 400+ plays of modlys songs the last week + a few downloads, and I'm
just little me. Supposed someone got really popular with, say 10x the
traffic of little me. Supposed you hosted 10 of such artist...
My math might be wrong, but with 4MB/song that would be about 4 * 40000
/ 1024 = 156 Gb in a week. Even without download of albums in high
quality, I feel that might be taxing on most hostings. Or would you,
Hartmut, be prepared to handle such a load? I might be totally wrong,
and this load could be peanuts...