sorry for being MIA for a bit. I was not planning on having the site host ISOs... mainly just Pets. I think that will cut down on a large chunk of the bandwidth. If I can get it down to about 1tb a month I should be ok.ttuuxxx wrote:If your going to host pets/iso's just remember that puppylinux.ca was getting I think it was around 3TB of downloads a month at the time and increasing as the months went on, it was extremely hard for Eric to foot the bill and also his server providers still had issues about the amount of downloads per month and sometimes they would block downloads after a certain target, some servers say they are unlimited but once they feel the puppy crunch they quickly turn face on you. Just something to keep in mind.
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Ive always felt that the iso hosting is what was the biggest hit to hosting. After all normal 100mb iso downloaded 100 times is 10gb of data transfer. Now take that and imagine 20 or 30 isos... and you're talking over 300gb right there. And I think 100 downloads is a small esimate. I'm sure some of the larger released hit 1000 easy... probably even up to around 10K in their lifetime.
All that being said if I can get webdev help... id consider putting down more money on my end so that I can host isos on a limited basis.