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."
Re:Is this a business or an expensive hobby? (Score:4, Interesting)
I know they say they own the rights -- but that will not stop the RIAA from trying to lawyer them off the net. Doesn't matter that they are above board and within their rights -- these mere details never stopped Big Music from fucking people over. Or, at least, trying to. And them trying to, will still cost a lot of lawyerage.
Re:Co-Locate (Score:0, Interesting)
And FDC. They offer the best hosting and unlimited bandwidth. Truly unlimited.
Re:Co-Locate (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex
EQ6
Intel® Xeon® E3-1245 Quadcore
incl. Hyper-Threading Technology
RAM16 GB DDR3 RAM ECC
Hard disks2 x 3 TB SATA 6 Gb/s HDD
7200 rpm (Software-RAID 1)
Enterprise classNIC1 GBit OnBoard
connected at 100 MBit
Backup Space100 GB
TrafficUnlimited*
Euro 69 per month...
Secured Servers: 100TB/mo at $175/mo (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Post the name of your site (Score:5, Interesting)
I had considered dropping the site name, but the site would probably be offline within the hour. :)
Thanks everyone for the responses - looks like for the price we're talking about, going to a Colo is the better solution.