I've recently come under attack about offering no limit hosting. I've been lumped in with all the scum that oversell a $75 VPS after investing over $150k in an infrastructure to back up what it is I am doing.
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I can see why I am lumped into the overselling barrel, but you guys cannot see why I am not. I hate what they do as well - I've been screwed over and it sucks, and I won't do it to anyone else.
crosswinds for teh win!!!!1
I have a suggestion for you crosswinds....
Some ISPs charge their customers for uploads(they count both uploads and downloads together)...
I've always liked using rsync to transfer my files between my machine and the hosting provider with my machine setup as an rsync server.... This is all good if the hosting provider is willing to give SSH access, not many do....
It would be real good if you could allow uploads via rsync... You could wrap the rsync in a gui window in your control panel section.... Normally I run rsync on the hosting provider like this:
rsync --verbose --archive --compress --stats --progress rsync://rsync.subdomain.net/somedir /home2/username/www/somedir
If the gui wrapper accepted passing options to rsync(which would be optional), a server url, and a destination directory, and optionally a usernamr and/or password.. The the gui/webpage would call rsync on their behalf that way no ssh access is needed and we get to use rsync so everyone ends up a happy chappy.
This benefits both the uploader as well as the provider as with rsync you only need to upload only the new files and only deltas(changes) to any other files that might have changed.