Hi again,
I have a few questions about hosting I hope someone can help me with.

1. I've been researching "accent computer and network services" http://www.acnsnet.com/ I've tracerouted them, pinged them, tested their response time and everything seems to be fine. The problem is that I live in Canada and the hosting company is based in Germany. Do you think this is a bad choice because of the distance?

2. Has anyone tried Veoweb before? (http://www.veoweb.net/) They seem to have good support, I've mailed them about 5 times in the past 2 months for different reasons and the longest wait time was about 1 hour. But often support dies off at signing up. Comments please? :)

2. I would like to estimate how much bandwidth I'm going to need for my site. It contains almost a hundred webpages, as well images etc and I'm trying to figure out how to estimate how much bandwidth I would need. Is there any good way to do this?

Wow that was long. Thanks for any help you guys give :)

Kevin.

Originally posted by kdp80
2. I would like to estimate how much bandwidth I'm going to need for my site. It contains almost a hundred webpages, as well images etc and I'm trying to figure out how to estimate how much bandwidth I would need. Is there any good way to do this?

Kevin.

Hi Kevin, you can approximate how much bandwidth you'll need by figuring out how large the html file is, and any files such as images that are also on the page, then guessing how many visitors you receive and how many pages they will view.


As you can see, this is an inexact science, but whatever is downloaded (html and image files) from every page from every visitor is included in the bandwidth total.


If your pages are under 100k each, and you get under 100,000 visitors per month, you won't have problems going with 2-5 Gigs per month.


Sorry, I can't help with veoweb or acnsnet, i'm not really familiar with either of them.

Thanks Greg,

I think the average page would be about 40-50k and from past experiences I would have about 40,000 to 50,000 unique ip's per month, although I'm not sure how many pages these visitors would see on average.

Kevin.

helpful info
http://www.hosthelp.com/sizematters.php

For what its worth I just tried connecting with acnsnet.com and it took over a minute to load their page. Veoweb.net loaded in less than 4 seconds. Located in Toronto using Shaw cable.

Have you looked at http://tera-byte.com they are one of Canadas largest web host companies, located in Calgary. Great service and prices can't be beat.

Originally posted by gthorley
Have you looked at http://tera-byte.com they are one of Canadas largest web host companies, located in Calgary. Great service and prices can't be beat.

I thought Tera-byte was located in Edmonton?

Allyn

Originally posted by gthorley

Have you looked at http://tera-byte.com they are one of Canadas largest web host companies, located in Calgary. Great service and prices can't be beat.

I disagree... their prices can be beat :)

Originally posted by Félix C.Courtemanche
Originally posted by gthorley

Have you looked at http://tera-byte.com they are one of Canadas largest web host companies, located in Calgary. Great service and prices can't be beat.

I disagree... their prices can be beat :)

I stand corrected my "prices can't be beat" is certainly not the correct wording "pricing is quite low" might be better.

However when I was asking for hosting recommendations I never saw anyone recommending anything close to what I get with them for $75.00 yr. (plan 2)

Maybe others can suggest alternative recommendations with pricing lower than there $9.25 month (plan 4) which gives 99mb space and 20gb transfer per month. Could it be that because they are operating out of Canada with the benefit of a $1.53 exchange rate, at present, mean that they have an unfare pricing advantage over many U.S. hosts.

That being said I realize that there is more than price to the equation and for those requiring some specialized functions etc there may be better choices.

Actually we were colocating at cwi and then left not long afterwards.

Our new hosting site is http://www.acnshosting.com

Chuck

Traffic ~= ( (sizeof (most_viewed_html_pages_on_your_site) + sizeof (images_on_them)) - successful_caching ) ;)

Also, try to avoid data duplication, use same URI for images and background on every page, this would help succesfull caching.
Hosting in other country then you live in is possible, if your site isn't national-oriented, i.e, if it's not a Canada-only online shop, etc.. In other case you can expirience slow connection from some of your customers.