I am looking for a place to host some files for my website. I don't need any special server features but I want a fixed per day bandwidth so I can spread the load over a month without having the pay extra charges at the end. I am looking for something like 1 to 2gb / day. Valuehost.co.uk seemed like it offered what I needed but after contacting them they said they do let more bandwidth to be used and charge at the end of the month.

anyone knows of a host that offers what I need at a reasonable cost or someone can make an offer?

thanks

Its probably more in your interest to ask for a monthly amount as your traffic will fluctuate day to day and then ask prospective hosts to not let you go over.

Its easily done and if you find a suitable host, most will keep an eye on your transfer rates and agree a service schedule with you. i.e. if your predicted to go 1Gb over, leave your account up and running but if its heading for the 20Gb mark over your limit, stop you sending anymore.

I dont think hosting companies can make you offers here anymore. They can only refer you to other companies...so don't expect any offers. You might want to try one of those high bandwidth hosting companies like www.midphase.com | www.******.com | www.ipowerweb.com

Good Luck ;)

letsgo thats exactly what I want. Since all I want this hosting is for files I want to pay a flat rate for it and it doesn't matter to me if users at a point are unable to download. If a host could do that then I guess I'd go for them. The only reason I said day by day was that if I let them limit the daily use it will never come to a point during the month that it will be impossible to download any file till the next month. I am not sure if I am making any sense.

Originally posted by kyriakos
letsgo thats exactly what I want. Since all I want this hosting is for files I want to pay a flat rate for it and it doesn't matter to me if users at a point are unable to download. If a host could do that then I guess I'd go for them. The only reason I said day by day was that if I let them limit the daily use it will never come to a point during the month that it will be impossible to download any file till the next month. I am not sure if I am making any sense.

it is not easy for a host to limit your bandwidth daily...I believe pair.com has that feature but ... they are too expensive for you.

thanks BVS I e-mailed the providers you mentioned to see what they do when the limit is reached.

what is the situation in general? I guess most let u go above the limit and charge on a per gb basis right?

I don't know kyriakos, but I would think you would be billed per GB basis but they would know better since it is their company :D

Originally posted by kyriakos
thanks BVS I e-mailed the providers you mentioned to see what they do when the limit is reached.

what is the situation in general? I guess most let u go above the limit and charge on a per gb basis right?

Usually one of two things --
a) Let you go over and bill you for the overage.
b) Automatically suspend your account until the next month.

plan B looks more like what I need.

Originally posted by inteltechs
it is not easy for a host to limit your bandwidth daily...I believe pair.com has that feature but ... they are too expensive for you.

No, we don't limit on a daily basis, but we do express some of our allowances on a per-day basis, which may be a source of confusion.

Kevin

Originally posted by inteltechs
it is not easy for a host to limit your bandwidth daily...I believe pair.com has that feature but ... they are too expensive for you.

Nothing to it, mod_throttle is your friend.

We have a customer who has a 2G per day file download site we just setup a mod_throttle rule of 2G per 24 hours and that's that. Or was it 1 gig per 12 hours anyway something like that.

I interpreted your post to indicate your site would be posted elsewhere, just the files in this account. Is that correct? If so, why aren't you hosting both together? Many hosts will not allow you to host files without the site. Others will.

Originally posted by Incognito
I interpreted your post to indicate your site would be posted elsewhere, just the files in this account. Is that correct? If so, why aren't you hosting both together? Many hosts will not allow you to host files without the site. Others will.

I've never understood why a host would care, you sell X space Y transfer who cares if they use it for html/jpg's or .zips as long as they pay you, and it's legal content.

That happens probably when mad overselling is enabled for the host.

I am not aware of a place which offers fixed bandwidth per day but rather those which offer monthly allocation and you decide how you want to use it within the given month.

You might actually do better that way since the usage might fluctuate day by day.

One thought would be to get a Virtual Private Server or dedicated server which would probably be cheaper for you when it comes to bandwidth.

Just find a host that allows you to use a throttle module.

hosting them together would mean if the files reach their limit the site goes down. hosting them separately will not have this setback. I don't understand why a host would not want to host files, as long as their content is legal then what problem would there be? I mean they do allocate the bandwidth I pay for me so why would they care how I use it?

I think you could find plenty of good hosts that will let you just host the files. I agree that as long as everything is on the up and up as far as the content goes it should not matter. I have several clients that have accounts they use for email and FTP traffic only. As far as the daily limit I would suggest a throttle also. Some control panels have it built in. Is this traffic FTP or HTTP? Does not really matter, just curious.

Originally posted by kyriakos
hosting them together would mean if the files reach their limit the site goes down. hosting them separately will not have this setback. I don't understand why a host would not want to host files, as long as their content is legal then what problem would there be? I mean they do allocate the bandwidth I pay for me so why would they care how I use it?

Really there's only one reason and that's overselling. If you buy space JUST to host files then you're probably gonna likely USE the bandwidth your buying, obviously to one of the many hosts that oversell so badly it oughta be a crime they won't want your business.

Dixiesys - agreed but most likely every host out ther oversells. I mean I don't think people offering 2GB space and 50gb a month allocate 50gb of bandwidth for each user they sign up or have enough disk space to accommodate them all. I do understand what you are saying but when u buy something u expect to get what u paid for.

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Originally posted by kyriakos
Dixiesys - agreed but most likely every host out ther oversells. I mean I don't think people offering 2GB space and 50gb a month allocate 50gb of bandwidth for each user they sign up or have enough disk space to accommodate them all. I do understand what you are saying but when u buy something u expect to get what u paid for.

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Overselling is FINE, it's MASSIVE overselling or overselling to the point you can't really deliver when even 1 client uses what you sell them that it's gotten out of hand.

Every host will oversell in some aspect, regardless of how much they claim they don't. It's like the phone company if everyone picks up their phones and places a call right now at the same time do you think they'll all get through? I was unable to place a call on my cell phone on New Years day, and one of my techs was complaining about it too (and he lives several states away so it wasn't "just here").

But when you start tweaking your AUP to limit perfectly legitimate uses of a web hosting account, then it's time to think about how bad it's getting.

hostfeature.com replied and say they will let me know once bandwidth use goes near limit and give me the option to suspend account or start paying for extra traffic. which more or less suits me.

Just did some checking because I have not messed with it much or in a while and if your host uses h-sphere you can control the throttle yourself in the control panel and it will do what you want. I am sure other control panels have this but I am not familiar with them. Here is a screen shot of what it looks like in the control panel:

http://netfuel.biz/stuff/throttle.gif