Re: Hosting allowances economies of scale

Jeff Shultz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hmm. If you could arrange that storage so that it wasn't on-web, it 
might make an interesting off-site backup solution. I guess you could 
arrange to password protect the site.

I suppose upload speed would be the key there.

Steve Glines wrote:
> Does anyone seriously trust them with your livelihood?
> 
> SG
> 
> 
> Jon Lewis wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> As I'm sure most people are aware, as has been the case for some time,
>>> many large hosting companies, including now NetSol, are giving
>>> gargantuan allowances for disk space, bandwidth, DNS services and
>>> mailboxes for paltry sums.  It's gotten obscene as of late.   See:
>>>
>>> https://www.networksolutions.com/web-hosting/package-comparison.jsp
>> I eventually got a human on the phone.  It's 500MB per email account.  I
>> asked about the unlimited storage "what if I have 10 terabytes of data I
>> want to upload?" and was told "we have a lot of servers here, we can
>> handle it".
>>
>> It certainly would be entertaining to put them to the test.  Anyone want
>> to host sourceforge-II on NetSol?
>>
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