I am looking for some ideas on how to increase revenue with our extra bandwidth.

We currently have about 35MB available and we are looking to add some services that are low support and will not require a lot of additional dollars spent on startup. We have quite a bit of hardware at our disposal such as servers and drive arrays, granted these are not state of the art but some decent stuff anyway.

So here I am looking for a way to help increase our bottom line and not sure where to start.

Any ideas would be helpful,

Thanks.

Your Extra Bandwidth = 35 MB ???!

Man, my site goes through 90,000MB/day

Im thinking he means off a line. Unless you have the features of some of the dc's around, like fire protection, power backup. then I would think this through a little more.

35MB free on a 45MB pipe.

We have an OC3 with SBC and our current contract for bandwidth is 45MB of which we use about 10.

We have a small data center with Battery Backup, diesel generator, fire supression, etc.

Start hosting P0rn :) It's eats a LOT of bandwidth...

Also you can do your p0rn site and make good money, if you know what are you doing.

Originally posted by steven-v
Start hosting P0rn :) It's eats a LOT of bandwidth...

Also you can do your p0rn site and make good money, if you know what are you doing.

And you wont get bored with looking at images all day either ;)

Wish we could be we can't. We have a parent company and they would not like the negative publicity we could/would get from it.

Start a think like rapidshare.de and/or buy imageshack haha.

Audio/Video streaming. It'll eat up the bandwidth easily.

Originally posted by steven-v
Start hosting P0rn :) It's eats a LOT of bandwidth...

Also you can do your p0rn site and make good money, if you know what are you doing.

I Salute you sir. :cool:

rent out some server, branch out into dedicated server market.

Eh... with single upstream link go to dedicated servers market it's kinda no good :)

Originally posted by jt2377
rent out some server, branch out into dedicated server market.

You have 35MB of extra bandwidth, or 35Mb/s?

Originally posted by mj4589
You have 35MB of extra bandwidth, or 35Mb/s?

I think it's pretty safe to say he means 35Mbit spare.

Hands down the easiest way to fill the pipe is streaming media. However, as a client I'd be wary of lacking the headroom to grow with only 35Mb/sec available total.

We actually have an OC3 that is capable of 155Mbit but since we don't have the need to buy that much we have a contract for 45Mb and are using about 10 right now.

We can get more with a phone call its just not practical to unless we need the bandwidth.

FYI

Spare me some bandwidth, haha, I am maxing my 10mbps.

Well, if you aren't looking to turn a profit, and the bandwidth is extra, and you have a few extra servers, etc., the solution is fairly simple in my mind.

Put together a few servers, they can be low end it doesn't even matter.

Then just sell off a few dedicated packages here on WHT at cut throat prices, maybe $50 a month for 10mbits unmetered?

Of course, it would all be single-homed, is the OC3 in a DC?

Still, people would jump at the deal, you'd sell as many as you had iinstantly.

maybe $50 a month for 10mbits unmetered?

Oh yeah right, and he would provide support with that?

I was saying sell it as an unmanaged package, just cover hardware and maybe a few installs.

It wouldn't be a solution for, err, mission critical businesses. But who could beat that price?

Originally posted by Mark L
Your Extra Bandwidth = 35 MB ???!
Man, my site goes through 90,000MB/day

And this is why we need to shoot whomever did the html/themes for CPanel - we've effectively allowed a typo to breed a whole industry of idiots !

BANDWIDTH isn't measured in days (or weeks, months, years), it's measure in bits/second.

Your "supersite" is (apparantly) using 90Gb/day of DATA-TRANSFER - about 8.5Mb/s

So the OP could host you, 3 more similarly challenged individuals, and still have BANDWIDTH spare.

Originally posted by othellotech
And this is why we need to shoot whomever did the html/themes for CPanel - we've effectively allowed a typo to breed a whole industry of idiots !

BANDWIDTH isn't measured in days (or weeks, months, years), it's measure in bits/second.

Your "supersite" is (apparantly) using 90Gb/day of DATA-TRANSFER - about 8.5Mb/s

So the OP could host you, 3 more similarly challenged individuals, and still have BANDWIDTH spare.

Supersite? How is my site a supersite? lmao!!!