hope some can answer to this...

would like to buy a remote data storage account for 3 gb of freeware files

but now i receive info from the host where i have the website (with only the webpages) that if i use webpage on a host with links to remote data storage account i use on that host same bandiwth of the remote account.

So which is the utility to have a remote data storage account with 1000 gb of bandiwth if i can't use from my other host because i haven't enough bandwith?

There is a solution?

1TB is a lot. But it also depends on how much you can pay. What kind of budget range do you have for the remote storage?

the problem is not the remote data storage , i can pay for it...the problem is to find a host for the webpages that linsk to the files on remote data storage..the actual host say i consume on my webpage same bandwith of the remote data storage that is on another server ! !

...problem is that on remote data storage htlm pages are not allowed(only some i need atleast 120), so there is a solution for have a website(that don't need of 1000 bandwith as the storage server) that link to remote data storage files?

if someone that have a remote data storage can help is welcome

i am a bit lost. So you want to buy a remote data storage for 3 giges? or somethign that you can use 1000 gigs of bandwidth?

From what you are saying, I can roughly guess. Your html pages... is it scripts that tries to hide the URL of your remote storage?

If it isn't, and is just pure html with normal links, then your host is not being straight with you.

If it is, then there's a possibility that your host is right. However that depends on the kind of scripts you are running. But I encountered them before and it was using the webserver bandwidth as well.

If you link to the remote storage from your web site there is simply no way for your host to know how much bandwidth the remote files are using.

I honestly don't know why they would care either... it doesn't take up any of their resources at all.

Maybe you have misunderstood them? Could it be that they don't allow you to remote link files on their servers FROM other sites (and not TO other sites) ??

Originally posted by mpope
If you link to the remote storage from your web site there is simply no way for your host to know how much bandwidth the remote files are using.


Like I mentioned, this may not be true if it is scripts. I came across scripts that,

1. Download the files from the remote server,
2. store it on server's memory (!!!)
3. Before outputing it to the downloader.

In actual fact, for a single download, it uses twice my bandwidth, and not to mention, it uses up 100% of the memory on the server!

For badly written scripts, it's definitely possible.

only pure html page with link to remote data storage account

If it is just pure HTML page, there is no way in which the site where your HTML are would consume any bandwidth other than the html pages. Consider it as hyperlinking to an external website which is so.

I guess your current web host either does not know much about web hosting and bandwidth OR trying to scare you.

sorry...i mean pure html pages linked directly for download from remote data account

example

html page at server(those are imaginary address)

www.eee.com/index.html
with html code inside

<a href ="http://www.remotedata.com/aro.zip></a>
where remotedata is the server of remote data


if the file aro.zip on the remote data server is 80mb, i consume 80mb of bandwith also on the server eee.com?
it seems strange to me

hope is more clear now and thanks for the answers

if the file aro.zip on the remote data server is 80mb, i consume 80mb of bandwith also on the server eee.com?
it seems strange to me

Yup, it does seems strange. If you do the link to the remote space as it is, the consumed bandwidth would be at the remote data location and not at your server at eee.com . That's for sure. That is why you have remote data storage in the first place; so as to redirect the traffic and consumed bandwidth to the remote storage.