Agum
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Group of my friends building an online radio shows type of site. Need hosting for it. These are original talk shows (emph: not music) recorded by my friends themselves. Haven't decided on file formats so far but I think just the regular stuff - RealMedia, WMA/ASF.
Due to the nature of the web site I would expect a need for large space and bandwidth, but don't really need a whole lot of other features. The standards (PHP, MySQL, a couple of email accounts) are probably needed. In terms of space I'm probably looking at 500mb~1GB or so to start with (might upgrade later on) and a reasonable bandwidth that corresponds with that kind of space. I'm not sure what the market price for such space is nowadays but I'm thinking with ~$15/mo I can get something similar?
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I would like to add that the host's servers need to be fast to users in the US, Canada, and Hong Kong.. as they're the major audience of the site. Some servers are fast in the US but slow to in the rest of the world in my experience. Which is another reason I asked for a big host. I know I can get a gig or two of space with $10/mo or so at a smaller host but I wouldn't mind paying more for higher quality services.
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I am looking for a recommendation of good host(s) (preferrably big hosts, not startups or ones managed by a couple of people), and not offers coming from hosts themselves.
Thanks
Due to the nature of the web site I would expect a need for large space and bandwidth, but don't really need a whole lot of other features. The standards (PHP, MySQL, a couple of email accounts) are probably needed. In terms of space I'm probably looking at 500mb~1GB or so to start with (might upgrade later on) and a reasonable bandwidth that corresponds with that kind of space. I'm not sure what the market price for such space is nowadays but I'm thinking with ~$15/mo I can get something similar?
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I would like to add that the host's servers need to be fast to users in the US, Canada, and Hong Kong.. as they're the major audience of the site. Some servers are fast in the US but slow to in the rest of the world in my experience. Which is another reason I asked for a big host. I know I can get a gig or two of space with $10/mo or so at a smaller host but I wouldn't mind paying more for higher quality services.
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I am looking for a recommendation of good host(s) (preferrably big hosts, not startups or ones managed by a couple of people), and not offers coming from hosts themselves.
Thanks
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