Configs for Image Hosting Site - Adult/Non-Adult

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    I have got a few clients who wanted us to design & start Image Hosting Sites.

    But Im totally confused abt the Disk space & Bandwidth that it will normally use Since Image Hosting Sites were not our Niche.

    So guys,could u help me in telling what could be the Best Configuration for a Adult Image Hosting Site & Non-Adult Image Hosting Site ?(Like the Optimal amount of Diskspace & Bandwidth needed).
    Most Hosts have GD & Imagemagick,so that wouldn't be any problem.

    Also they want to be on Shared Hosting plans at first & not start with a VPS/Dedicated Servers initially.

    Hope to get some good Suggestions from you people
     
    sosmuthu, Sep 8, 2008 IP
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    You won't need too much diskspace at all, just bandwidth in quantity compared.

    You can start off on shared hosts while you are quite small, but when you start getting decent amounts of traffic you will need to upgrade. Remind your clients to moderate their content, remove warez stuff and things which violate their ToS as it will suck up their bandwidth.

    If you want to talk at all contact me as I used to own and run an image hosting site which pushed 4000GB of bandwidth per month on a dedicated server, lots of traffic.
     
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    o..4000GB seems very High.

    Yes Moderation will defintely free up some space

    @samcroft could u just provide with approximate Diskspace * BW needed initially (Remember Adult Hosting is also on the cards)
     
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    My image site was very big, hosting over 40,000 images with 500 uploaded per day so :), thats why the bandwidth requirements were large.

    My average file size was around 150KB, that was with adult images.

    It really isn't much diskspace at all, just upgrade as you need. Your first few months will be with low traffic, upgrade only when needed.

    Just go with an provider which can give you 80GB bandwidth or so, a few gigs of diskspace or so to start off with, easy to transfer site to new hosting as diskspace will be low, also image hosting is very simple, runs off a very simple system :).

    Adult image hosting will also take more bandwidth, people link them to more traffic sites, they will also gain you lower revenue from ads.
     
    samcroft11, Sep 8, 2008 IP