Hi guys, I'm going through a nightmare right now and really would appreciate if somebody could help me out.
I have a website that's all about streaming video. We hit our bandwidth limit last month of 100GB and then upgraded. I'm hostless as of right now; apparently our host doesn't allow streaming video and just now noticed after us being there over a year. Account got suspended and I haven't heard anything yet. First of all, if the host deletes this account and all files, what kind of legal options do I have? Is it possible to contact his hosting company and request backups? He's obviously a reseller.
Secondly, I do have backups of some of the things, which we'll be moving forward with. The host we were just on was offering ridiculous hdd and bandwidth resources at dirt prices. We went with that originally (a year ago) because I didn't know better, and because we never imagined the site would get this big. I was afraid to migrate everything before now because I didn't know how. I figured I'd wait until I was forced to move. Well, that time's come.
We have right now about 40-50 video files. We did hit the 100gb limit and I think that was a little higher than usual, but if it COULD happen, I want to be prepared. Regardless, we're finishing up a new version of the site which will have more in the range of 500-600 videos and a community foundation, so not only will we be streaming more videos, we'll also be attracting more visitors who will be browsing more pages at a time. Clearly the bandwidth is paramount.
I'm really a webdesigner first and an administrator second. I've never used anything other than shared hosting, which I guess is now completely out of the question. Where do I go now? Dedicated server? Co-location? I'd prefer something that had high bandwidth to start but could be upgraded quickly, so anything that requires more than a 1-month commitment isn't a good idea (because the jump from old site to new is going to be so drastic, the audience is probably going to skyrocket in between the beginning of the month and the end, as word gets around). But we really can't give any kind of projection of just how much bandwidth will be used.
And when you rent or buy a server, do you have to install all the Cpanel/PHP/Mysql and everything yourself?
I have a website that's all about streaming video. We hit our bandwidth limit last month of 100GB and then upgraded. I'm hostless as of right now; apparently our host doesn't allow streaming video and just now noticed after us being there over a year. Account got suspended and I haven't heard anything yet. First of all, if the host deletes this account and all files, what kind of legal options do I have? Is it possible to contact his hosting company and request backups? He's obviously a reseller.
Secondly, I do have backups of some of the things, which we'll be moving forward with. The host we were just on was offering ridiculous hdd and bandwidth resources at dirt prices. We went with that originally (a year ago) because I didn't know better, and because we never imagined the site would get this big. I was afraid to migrate everything before now because I didn't know how. I figured I'd wait until I was forced to move. Well, that time's come.
We have right now about 40-50 video files. We did hit the 100gb limit and I think that was a little higher than usual, but if it COULD happen, I want to be prepared. Regardless, we're finishing up a new version of the site which will have more in the range of 500-600 videos and a community foundation, so not only will we be streaming more videos, we'll also be attracting more visitors who will be browsing more pages at a time. Clearly the bandwidth is paramount.
I'm really a webdesigner first and an administrator second. I've never used anything other than shared hosting, which I guess is now completely out of the question. Where do I go now? Dedicated server? Co-location? I'd prefer something that had high bandwidth to start but could be upgraded quickly, so anything that requires more than a 1-month commitment isn't a good idea (because the jump from old site to new is going to be so drastic, the audience is probably going to skyrocket in between the beginning of the month and the end, as word gets around). But we really can't give any kind of projection of just how much bandwidth will be used.
And when you rent or buy a server, do you have to install all the Cpanel/PHP/Mysql and everything yourself?