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Oh yep, totally agree - you have to do it, otherwise you end up with a server full of porn & torrent files!

If you want my formula, I drop all accounts into an excel spreadsheet and then normalise their disk and bandwidth usage to a percentage of the average. I then divide the disk space used by the bandwidth used (as spam sites tend to have low disk space but high bandwidth) and I assign that value to each site as it's "spam score". It's not perfect and you can't delete sites on the basis of it, but it gives you an early indication of the likely spam sites.

Hope it helps :)
 
Robbeh said:
Oh yep, totally agree - you have to do it, otherwise you end up with a server full of porn & torrent files!

If you want my formula, I drop all accounts into an excel spreadsheet and then normalise their disk and bandwidth usage to a percentage of the average. I then divide the disk space used by the bandwidth used (as spam sites tend to have low disk space but high bandwidth) and I assign that value to each site as it's "spam score". It's not perfect and you can't delete sites on the basis of it, but it gives you an early indication of the likely spam sites.

Hope it helps :)
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That's a pretty neat idea.
 
It would be if I got the formula right - it's bandwidth divided by disk space, not the other way around!

Feel free to use it :)
 
TaoPhoenix said:
Really gutsy if you can pull it off properly.

I have real doubts about "build a free host for X months and resell it". There's a couple of people here who specialize in that. The result seems to be "let's hope 1% of the clients stay".
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Yeah; there are LOADS of people who do that (check flippa.com and there's always a few on there for sale!).

It seems to be going okay though, and I'm intending on keeping it - last time around I sold it to a BIG company who I thought would do a better job than I could alone.

The only problem is when you search for 5GBFree on Google the title of this forum thread is result 2 lol
 
krakjoe said:
What a ----in load, any host, free or paid assumes responsibility of the content on their server, legally and actually. I do hope you're not a free host with that attitude ...
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Legally could be all over the map. That wonderful thing called TOS.

Actually is a maybe, because it affects subjective impressions.
 
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