OK, who has the best deal on 60-100 gig of bandwidth per month without breaking the bank?

Check out satexas.com ... I think they are a great company.... feel free to e-mail the admin and ask them questions... they normally respond withen 24hrs if not less...<br /><br />And if you do sign up with them... tell them LostS sent ya :-P<br /><br />I like getting a month free :-P

You can also take a look at CIHost. I have 3 gigs of HD space and unlimited bandwith for $20/mo. Check out their frequent "specials" for the best deals. []http://www.threadsdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/smile.gif[/]<br /><br />Jeff

Hmmmm, why did you post this information as a reply to me? hahaha I already have a web host that gives me over 3 times the space, dozens upon dozens of other amenities including the latest versions of Perl, php, etc. and on the latest equipment at 1/5 the price of "Hosting4less". But perhaps there's someone out there that doesn't mind spending $100/mo rather than $20/month? What's it like having too much money on hand anyway? []http://www.threadsdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

I never know who to click on to reply. Wish it just had a single reply button..:p Word of wisdom.. Cheaper never insures it being better..;) I have one site with upwards of 1,000,000 pageviews monthly, and it never skips a beat. Have you read their terms..?<br /><br />http://www.cihost.com/?zone=support/terms<br /><br /><br />Makes for interesting reading. There is always a limit. You just have to read far enough.

My terms of agreement with my hoster is... Don't break it so hard it cant be fixed... I like my hosting provider... It is cool when they come to me asking for my opinion on something... Also if I need/want a Perl Module installed... I tell them where and how to get it and they do it :)<br /><br />Also I like being able to telnet in and do stuff...

I recommend 4webspace (Tera-Byte). They offer a Cobalt RaQ3 Server with 512MB Ram, 10GB harddisk, and 100GB bandwidth for $99/month (no setup fee []http://www.threadsdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/smile.gif[/]). You have root access to the machine, that means you can install whatever you want (PHP, MySQL, or just the latest Apache Server).

How do the raq3's hold up to any kind of server load philipp? I didn't think they did too well...

RaQ3's with 512MB are fine as long the site use PHP/MySQL. MySQL depends unlike flatfiles on memory usage that means a RaQ3 with 512MB is faster that a Pentium III 1GHz with 128MB

danke []http://www.threadsdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/smile.gif[/]<br /><br />Does the type of hard-drive matter much (ie: scsi vs. ide)?

Not really. More important that the harddrive type/speed or even the CPU speed is still that the machine has enough memory to handle the database.

I agree with JCS100 - there is some interpretation to be made on the cihost.com 'unlimited bandwidth' terms of use. And it may be hard to argue your case once over the 20 Gig/Month barrier.<br /><br />I have gone with Hosting4less and see how it goes. The servers are quick, email support is about 24hrs and they are not that pricey when I did some browsing.<br /><br />I was wanting some info from Verio of their Virtual Private Servers (at $150US/Month for 400 Meg and Unlimited Bandwidth). I sent them some emails, wanting to know what I could expect as far as bandwidth goes (as I know there is no such thing as a free lunch) but it is four days later and I am still waiting for a reply.<br /><br />(As a side note, it always bugs me that people say times are bad and noone whats to buy anything but it seems so hard these days to get reliable sales information. I had the money to spend if I could have got a few minutes of someone's time to answer a simple question!).<br /><br />Well I will see how hosting4less goes. So far no complaints!<br /><br />Chonrad.

Agreed []http://www.threadsdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/smile.gif[/] I believe the same money is out there, it just isn't being thrown at every internet "company" with a half-baked idea []http://www.threadsdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/wink.gif[/]. Customer service is where most any company can mop up the floor with the rest of the ISP's, should someone ever decide to get it right.

FYI, according to 4webspace's page, RaQ3s come standard with 128MB Ram, and to get 512MB, there is a setup fee of $75.<br /><br />I went a slightly different route:<br />I am leasing a RaQ4i with 256MB Ram, 20GB harddisk, and 300GB bandwidth from Rackshack.net. It had a $250 setup fee, though. Considering I transfer over 180GB from my site, the bandwidth is why I chose to go with this company.<br /><br />I wish I had waited... two months after I signed up, rackshack.net introduced some "white box linux" machines. The least expensive of those is a 1Ghz Duron machine, with 512MB Ram, 20GB HD, and 300GB bandwidth for $99 per month with a $299 setup fee with the Ensim Control Panel software and $349 with the Plesk Control Panel software. If it weren't for the setup fee, I would have switched servers shortly after the new ones became available.

We have a dedicated machine through cihost and i must say its been a great move for us. Their support isnt all that responsive but for the price you really cant beat what you get. I think we pay 99/month for a dedicated machine with 256k ram and it performs nicely. We have never been hit with bandwidth charges. We get about 60,000 page views a day.

you're on dedicated and get 60k views a day? What is your bandwidth usage like? One of my sites pulls about 75k hits a day, the other in the low 60's.. I'm on their shared plan and have had no performance/bandwidth issues at all. Just curious.

I wish I found this thread earlier! []/forum/images/icons/shocked.gif[/] Bandwidth seems to be much cheaper in the US.<br /><br />My current bandwidth fees are CDN$7 a gig (first 5 gigs free) plus C$250/month for colo.<br />Peer1<br /><br />I'm building a new rack mount server and I'm looking at getting down to C$6/gig and C$200/month colo.<br /><br />My site does about 80 gigs a month.<br /> []http://www.esportbike.com/wwwthreads/files/33-32354-mrtg.gif[/]<br />

Oh, I found out that my current dedicated server host, http://rackshack.net, currently has some $99 setup fee deal going on for most of its machines... might want to look into it (the ordering/inventory system seems to be down at the moment, so I can't tell you how many servers are in stock of which type).

Just saw that 4webspace.com has lowered their monthly rate for raq3's to $89/month and increased bandwith to 500GB/month! Whew!<br /><br />Just wanted to ask if a 128MB of ram is enough to handle 1.5GB of bandwidth/day? How does the internal RAM really affect the bandwidth -- let's say with running UBB.threads 6.xx? TIA.

These will be probably be second hand servers. Cobalt have their new model coming out next month. (RaQ550)<br /><br />I wouldn't suggest going for anything less than a RaQ4 with 256MB of memory.