I have been looking for a dedicated server. Also, I have been driving the providers with questions. I think that some of them are even tired of me asking so many questions, but I am looking for either a company that offers either a server that will last for a long while, or that when I have out grown the server it does not cost one arm and one leg to transfer the data to a new server. Now I need to know an answer to a question. I have really considered Cloud Hosting, but I am not that technical in setting up a website, and truthfully I am worried about on how to set up the nodes. Anyway I have ran across a couple of companies that offer 10TB bandwidth. I really find that hard to swallow. What is the gimmick here? Is that true? I may want to give away free websites, so it may be possible for me to use a massive amount of bandwidth.
I don't think the whole internet has 10TB of bandwidth. 10TB of transfer is equal to (approximately) a 30mbps line at 100% utilization. You'd probably need a dedicated 100mbps line to provide 10TB over the course of a month given normal traffic patterns. A 100mbps line might cost your provider $500 for cheapo bandwidth and easily over $2000 for high-quality multi-homed. Do you think this company would survive if all it's customers used their full allowance? If you can answer that then you can figure out the rest. There are few sites that will ever use that much bandwidth. Most sites will use less than 0.01% of this amount (that's one-one-hundreth of one-percent).
Some Data Centers here in the USA offer up to 100 TB of bandwidth a month, 100TB.com is housed in softlayer in three different locations we have three vps nodes through them we offer infact 10 TB of bandwidth on our cheapest vps plan.
100TB.com are definitely recommended if you need a large amount of bandwidth. They don't have any gimmicks by the way.
I dont know about others but .... its true for myhostbots.com They offer 10TB bandwidth in their platinum pack.... which costs $160/year . I also have the platinum pack... and its running quite well.
I suggest you to check better the TOS of these companies, yes, they offer you 10 TB of bandwidth (i wouldn't use all this bw for my entire life i suppose), but i'm pretty sure they also say if there are too much traffic, your server would be limited or something similar. It looks like the unmetered shared hosting accounts. Yes, you can apparently use as much space and bandwidth as you want, but if you use TOO MUCH, they advice you, limit you, or even close your account. It happened to me, and i've just used 50 gb of bandwidth in a month, on a unmetered basis.
No gimmick... I think a lot of providers figure you'll never even come close to using that much BW, since very few if any sites, let alone servers are even capable of it.
Singlehop.com have been offering 10TB with almost all (some of their low-end only have 2.5TB) of their dedicated servers since the beginning of the year. Would definitely give them a looksie
This would be my concern also. I understand that the limit is not really on bandwidth or size the limit is the processor in the server you are on. I can not see an alternative of doing anything else (including cloud hosting) because in my opinion that it is a whole lot better to use sub-domains and have many hosting companies and one server or cloud hosting for a single server is your main host. This is the only way I can see that your web-site will be up and running (at least part of it) all of the time with limited interruption. I say this, because is servers get older, and the cost of bandwidth keeps falling, that hosting companies will be running older servers (not is fast is newer high end, and more of a chance for failure) and will be offering lots of bandwidth, but the fall back will be on processor power. Am I correct on my assumption?
This advise is completely wrong. High quality bandwidth is more like $5 / meg these days, cheap bandwidth around $1 / meg. To say a 100mbps line is costing your provider $2000 / mo is so 2004. Anyway, yes, 10tb offers are for real. It's really not that much bandwidth anymore. A 100mbps unmetered line can easily do 20tb / mo without overselling, so 10tb / mo doesn't really cost that much to provide, especially if your average user only uses half of their allotment.
If you and a few other people really want to pay >$1000 /mo for a 100 meg line, I think I've found my ticket to the gravy train, because I can get a gig line for about the same money.
It's not a matter of "wanting". The reality is the bw (real bw) does in fact cost more than that. The provider pays transit fees, loop fees, taxes, USF fees, property tax fees, 911 recovery charge fees, and then the bw fees. When you pay $1000/mo. for a 100MB line, you're sharing it with other people. That $1000 line costs your provider more than $1000/mo.
911 fees are not applicable to internet charges. I'm not paying $1000 / mo for a 100mb line. I'm paying only a little over $1000 / mo for a 1000mb line. I'd be more than happy to sell you 100mb lines for $1000 / mo I would really be on the gravy train at that point.
Yes they are. The transit that the bw travels over carries those charges. You're paying for shared bw. Trust me
Well, it doesn't matter if it's 10TB BW. Because the connection to the server is only as strong as the weakest link. So if you're connecting to the server via a link that only has 1MB BW then it will only transfer in a rate equal to a 1MB connection.
You can believe what you want, but I buy bandwidth direct from carriers. I can use as much as I've paid for at any time without any performance problems and without any extra charges. There certainly exist more expensive carriers, but even then, the price shouldn't be more than about 5x what I'm paying, which is still far lower than the prices you're talking about. FWIW, 911 Fees etc are only applicable to phone companies.
With all due respect. I've been doing this for almost 14 years now. Oh, and you are paying for those 911 fees What do you think your bw rides over to get to the DC? Phone lines The reason BW is cheaper for you is because you are buying bw that is being oversold several times over. How on earth do you think we make money in the ISP business. Even back in the dialup days we oversold our phone lines. You don't see any performance issues because your provider is managing their bw properly and has enough to account for peak usage and other possible overage or spikes.