Hosting for a wallpaper website

[3listen]

I am planning to make a wallpaper website
I have no ideas how many bandwidth i will be using..
but do you have any ideas...
how many bandwidth i will be using...
webspace will be need heaps as well due to the quality and quantity of wallpaper i have

i wish no more than 3US/month
^^

[blutto]

As long as you own the wallpaper, http://www.crosswinds.net/

but they do want 5 dollers per month for paid. No ads, and you get ftp.

Note they are strict on their terms of service and will delete without warning, it says that in the tos.

blutto

[Daniel]

Crosswinds.net is quite slow. But then again, your not going to find much for $3 a month.

[blutto]

I know the servers were slow back in 1999. They've bought new gear since then. Their servers got fried on Sep 11, 2001. It was just bad luck their servers were less than 5 miles from the WTC. Power fluctuations fried some hard drives and power supplies, etc. From what they said on their forums, not up now, they moved the servers away from that co-location spot.

I saw a number of complaints in the help forums they should have known something like that could happen. I noticed others were startled anyone could make such a claim.

I hadn't noticed it being slow recently. My pages there seem to load rather quickly, and I'm probably 1,500 miles from there. I do know the backbone they connect to has had problems, but thats not their fault.

Paid accounts get different servers than free accounts. Paid ones don't have a bandwidth limit. There probably is some limit, but I don't know what it is. From what I've heard, free account bandwidth is metered. I have no idea what level its metered at or if it actually is metered.

a paid one is: like b_lue.crosswinds.net

and a free account is like w_ww.crosswinds.net/~blue/

I put the underscore in there, just in case its someone's account, I didn't check.

As for the cheapness of 5 dollars, actually 4 dollars and 95 cents, its my understanding thats about what they get from the popups on an account. So thats what they charge for the paid accounts.

I don't have any inside info. This is from the forums postings from last winter and fall of 2001.

blutto