Comments on: Hosting Bills Killed the Internet Star

By: Miller01

Miller01 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:24:18 +0000

Vote here for your favourite hosting provider

By: Juanjo

Juanjo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:22:44 +0000

Cellania,

Flickr is not the best option for hosting images. First, the conditions forbit linking the images outside Flickr if they're not linked to the Flickr account. Second, there is a bandwith limit even on paid accounts that a site like Neatorama would reach in no time.

Amazon S3 or some similar service would be a better option in this case.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:44:44 +0000

Bandwidth and CPU usage are two different things - blog engines like Wordpress are CPU hogs (especially if you use a lot of plugins) so I'm familiar with Carl's dilemma of running out of one's allotment of CPU cycles before you even come close to running out of bandwidth.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:20:06 +0000

Carl, have you tried parking your photographs on a different site, like Flickr? Photographs use a LOT of bandwidth. I ran over my allotment every month until I found other places to host the pictures.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:13:40 +0000

I'm facing a very VERY similar problem. My site is not *huge* in traffic, but the lie of "unlimited bandwidth" does not include "unlimited CPU usage". Consequently, my $5/mo host wants me to upgrade to a $99/mo plan. This is ridiculous. For what it's worth, the host is Lunarpages. Do not use them if you expect profitable success in any way.

By: ted

ted — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:01:02 +0000

"Put aside for a moment the internal costs that a boutique design studio or maddened creator racks up in producing original production of a consumable magnitude (for the Outbreak, figure three months full-time for the writer/director/producer team, plus a system admin, a Flash guy, and hard costs for actors, props, equipment, etc., and it’s easily into the hundreds of thousands of dollars). The real killer, as endless lines of bankrupt indie filmmakers will attest, is ‘out-of-pocket’ expenses."

That quote is two sentences and difficult to read. Maybe long-windedness had something to do with it.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:58:29 +0000

No money for beer ... must ... buy .. diapers!

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:50:40 +0000

As many of you know, the blog started out with no ads whatsoever and throughout its growth (thanks, Neatoramanauts!) we’ve added text and banner ads to keep up with the hosting and bandwidth bills**.

This is a fancy term for "beer money".