Suggestions For Music Hosting? 225
First time accepted submitter achbed writes "In conjunction with a friend of mine, I'm operating a small(ish) site that contains a large quantity of music (mp3/ogg) that we pay streaming licenses for. The site currently has about 35GB of files, and pulls down an average of about 3TB a month of bandwidth — and we're just getting started. We've been unable to find any hosting packages out there that are not of the 'unlimited' variety (meaning they can kick us at any time because we're using too much) that are not costing an insane amount of money. Our current 'main page' host charges about $0.50/GB/mo, which for this much data equates to $500 a month per TB. As we are expecting growth, this is quickly going to become a major problem, as were doing this out of our own pockets (that are not that deep). Does anyone have good leads on businesses that provide significant bandwidth (5-10TB/month) for inexpensive money? Or are we going to have to accept a price in the thousands per month to run this kind of site, with 'going viral' providing a significant risk to our pockets?"
$500 for what works out to under 5Mbps (95th pecentile mojo) seems a bit steep. These guys want to enter the 20+Mbps realm; I've done some high bandwidth hosting before, but it seems like you enter a different world when you need more than 10Mbps.
achbed continues: "We've looked into some of the major CDNs as well. Either they do not 'support streaming' (CloudFlare), or cost thousands for what we're needing."
Post the name of your site (Score:3, Funny)
So Slashdot can go hammer your servers! :) Kidding..
Seriously, don't let us know, you will be in for $$$$
Re:godaddy (Score:4, Funny)
Re:godaddy (Score:4, Funny)
Secondly... if that is how you judge your vendors, then you are missing out on some great porn.
Re:Is this a business or an expensive hobby? (Score:2, Funny)
well she definitely figured out the spending money part of running a business.
Re:One word solution (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to suggest Megaupload.
Re:Co-Locate (Score:5, Funny)
TrafficUnlimited*
That star doesn't seem too trustworthy...