Buying NEED Hosting for Qooy Script (File Mirror script site)

I will be looking to start a site with the Qooy script (this is a script that allows someone to upload a file to the site and this file then gets uploaded to other externals sites (megaupload, rs, hotfile, etc) and then the user is provided a link). I want to know who can provide reliable hosting for this site. I am not completely familiar with the requirements for this script (as far as bandwidth and storage needed) so i am hoping some of you reading this have other customers using a similar script and can tell me what i need to start because i probably will have very little users at first but i will look to buy more resources as needed.

If you contact me you SHOULD have an idea of the average space/bandwidth requirements for a starting qooy script site. let me know what those requirements are and the cost/month

 

you should take VPS or dedicated server

Shared hosting not best option for you

 

As well, assuming the files are not going to be legal, you will need to look for an offshore host. Based on what I'll explain below, I will echo Accent1's comment that you will definitely need a VPS/Dedicated Server, or some other very high-bandwidth solution.

I am not familiar with the script at all, but assuming the script only holds the files on your server temporarily (until they are re-uploaded), storage shouldn't be THAT big of an issue at all, as the files will be deleted regularly.

The major issue is going to be bandwidth. The bandwidth of uploading the file to your server is going to be counted, then the bandwidth for every single file sharing service the file is uploaded to will be tallied. For example:

100mb file - Uploaded by a user to your server is 100mb of bandwidth. Sent from your server to 5 file sharing sites is then 5x100 = 500mb of bandwidth.

So the total for one 100mb file is going to be ~600mb of bandwidth. The more file sharing services you use, the more that number will increase, presumably. You throw a few large files in there and your bandwidth will be eaten up EXTREMELY fast.

 

I have used qooy script and i can tell u that i dont need any vps or dedicated server u need a shared hosting as people dont download files from your server and when people upload files they are uploaded to your server as well as other mirror hosts and u also have cron to delete file that have been uploaded to your host so i mean to say is that u can run qooy on a shared host easily

 

I would recommend you try Low END vps servers.

 

As along the website isnt hosting any copyright files, i would quite happily host the website for you. Im gonna pm you with a package you might be interested in.

Good luck in your hunt!

 

meaning the cheapest vps i can find??

how much traffic did your site get? and how much storage/bandwidth did you use/month? Im looking to have this site grow so thats why i was asking about vps and/or shared hosting

 

You must try cheap windows hosting because it is reliable also. The one the best feature is that they are providing daily backup service while other hosting do not provide daily backup service.

I hope you will not face any problem if you select windows hosting.

 

The problem is still the bandwidth. If your site gets even remotely popular, the bandwidth is going to skyrocket well beyond what most shared hosts will realistically offer you. If people upload 10GB of files per month (really not that much), you're looking at 50-60GB of bandwidth at an absolutely minimum. 50GB = 250+GB, etc. You'll be hard-pressed to find a shared host that actually lets you use that much bandwidth, even though they claim they offer it.

If you're using the site just for your own stuff and don't have many other people using it, sure, offshore shared hosting will be fine. Other than that, you're going to need a high bandwidth solution...and no...not some "unlimited" host.

 

want a vps offshore then look at veeble.org or scopehosts and theres a few about if you just look on google and put vps offshore

 

you dont need VPS etc. i have my own qooy script www.up4eva .co.uk and i payd $1 a month for hosting. PM me and ill sort you out

 

great. One thing though that i was wondering is that, while i was looking for VPS many didnt have cpanel and i had to pay extra for that. so the cost/month ended up being kinda high. If i get a VPS that does not have cpanel will i still be able to run my script or do i HAVE to pay extra for cpanel to do that? I apologize if this gettin a bit off topic here. Also im just beginning to learn cpanel to handle my site and dont know linux well so im not sure if id be able to handle the VPS. any ideas?

 

im not sure, sorry. all i know is that you will DEFFINATELY need access to cgi or cgi-bin

you won't need VPS, trust me. Everyone seems to say that, but an upload speed of ~164KB/sec is pretty reasonable to me!

 

Zmanblog, as I said already, you have NO IDEA if he will need a VPS or not. I don't either, and the site owner probably doesn't as well. It is all going to depend on the resources he needs, and that is something he is going to need to figure out. If it's going to be relatively few users, or even quite a few users uploading small files, shared hosting will work out great. But as I have said so many times in this thread, no shared host is going to allow ridiculous amounts of bandwidth. They'll just delete your account.

That said, there is nothing wrong with starting with shared hosting and then moving up to a VPS when you need it. In fact, I would probably recommend that.

By the way, http://www.up4eva.co.uk/ is down and has been for over an hour. Doh!! I guess for $1/mo, that's somewhat to be expected.

Acatmusic, cPanel is not required for running a script, etc. It's a control panel that is designed to make things easier for you. If you aren't familiar with setting up databases, etc. without a control panel, you're going to be screwed without it. Unfortunately, yes, cPanel raises the price considerably. There are other alternatives such as DirectAdmin (cheaper) and Kloxo (free), but it really just depends on what exactly you're looking for.

 

I recommend a shared hosting plan, than when you start to grow buy a low end vps, (with cpanel, otherwise its going to be hard for you) - Shared hosting, 5gb diskspace and 200gb ram won't cost you too much and will do the job fine..

 

the thing about qooy is that it doesnt require that much bandwidth as the files are hosted on other file sharing sites and only a backup file is hosted on your server u can remove that file via cronjob in qooy

there are i think two options in the new version of qooy i think that users can also place their download link ie the files that are hosted on their server if u dont want to place your link in the mirrors then i must say the site will only take the bandwidth of the pages of your site and i dont think u will need a vps for that so my sujjestion to you is that buy a shared host and when buying 1 note the php upload limit of that host ie the limit of 1 file size if u want to set the max file size to 100 mb then u should ask your host first if they allow the upload limit to be 100 mb

 

Doesn't it upload all the files to the file sharing sites from your server? That's how I was told it runs, and according to their own site it uploads the files from the server to the file sharing sites. After that, no, it uses no bandwidth on your site. That initial push to the file sharing sites though can be huge!

As I've said a few posts up, if you have a 1GB file, it will cost you 1GB of bandwidth for the user to upload that file to your server. Let's say you use 5 filing sharing sites. It will cost an additional 5GB of bandwidth (1GB x 5) to push the file from your server to the filing sharing site. That's 6GB of bandwidth for a 1GB file. Of course, after that initial push, there is absolutely no bandwidth requirement on your own server.

 

Yeah, i am aware of the high bandwidth requirements this will have however i do not have the knowledge to handle a vps so is there any other solution? can someone just host my site on their vps and i can pay them instead? or are there special plans suited for people who own sites with high bandwidth requirements but do no wish to get a vps?

 

i dont want to brag but i am running a video hosting site on a shared server and i must say it can handle it i have used 200gb of traffic as the site is new so still i am up so i would sujjest you to still not buy vps now as it will be a waste of money first you should run this script on trail on a shared host if its not working good then u should switch to vps

 

There are a lot of shared hosts that offer high bandwidth. I don't have any offshore host off the top of my head that I would recommend, but they are out there. Just beware that the unlimited bandwidth plans are usually way too good to be true.

What's your max budget? You never really mentioned that.