Darth Fader

Seriously, check out the hosting link I posted above. A good friend of mine is a web developer by trade and he uses them exclusively and says they rock.

I'll post the link again

www.phpwebhosting.com

I told him about mine too, but he just didn't check ours out for some reason.

2Mb is a high standard??? I have 40 down and over 10 up, consistently. Home fibre is A Good Thing. Only $40 a month. Faster than the office server (#8 above) but the 4 hour IP lease makes a home server rather impractical.

You are very fortunate acme; but surely you know how rare home fibre is?

Or are you suggesting we dig our own trenches from the PoP to our house? Maybe we could hook up all our neighbors while we're at it?

Moving from the backwaters of the Prairies to urban Tokyo does have it's advantages :D

"Digging your own trenches" is kind of what happens with fibre here. An apartment building will arrange for a single fibre drop and then use ADSL to the individual units. As the distance is only hundreds of meters the speed over copper remains high, and if it's a large enough building the provider will often install for free just for the future business. We've got several companies actively competing for customers so it's usually a quick process.

Back in the 'old' country, farmers would quite literally dig their own trenches with their backhoe. The power/phone company can then just drop the wire in, saving Old MacDonald a very substantial amount of money. Even cheaper if Old MacD buys the cable and drops it in himself, just leave the trench open for inspection.

Are you right in Seattle? Long time ago I knew someone in Kapowsin who was running an early Satellite internet. Stuck with telephone upload, but decent downstream performance. And the content was a bit harder to trace :rolleyes:

Yep, right in Seattle proper. Got cable at ~4.5Mb with the hated Crumcast. I was commenting on his considering 2Mb a high standard. How likely is it that he could have that on DSL? Whatever, I don't care enough.

I used to run an optical networking company, and my intent was to link fiber PoPs to outlying high-net-worth subscribers, like stock brokers and lawyers. It was MRV laser transmitter/receivers through the air; very secure, but limited by fog/rain, and with distance constraints. Basically last mile. But then I got mashed by low-cost wifi. I wasn't willing to compete in commoditized wifi, as I'd never been treated with less respect as as a networking vendor; my prior field had been real estate. (and I'm old)

I'd thought about running fibre through high-value corridors. There's a machine which pushes a pipe underground horizontally, which you can steer to avoid other utilities. It obviates the need for open trenches and all the disruption. But I went back into real estate instead, and I think I'll die practicing real estate.

Ok.. easy now.

I checked out the Maxie and Bizarre.. as well as PHPHost (i've been waiting for an email back from them, which just came in a little while ago).

I've also been to about 150 other websites, looking at Hosts, Shopping Carts, Merchant Accounts, ISP's etc etc.

I am doing this research along with my full time job, so sorry if you got the impression i was ignoring your advice.
Far from it. That's why i'm here!

The Maxie and Bizarre hosts do not have enough space and / or enough bandwidth for me, and in the email from PHP they pretty much seconded that. They offer 1G of space 'with room to grow' ... but not much.

Like i said - this is a lot of research for me, and i am thankful for every piece of information, for sure.

In order to be able to handle music downloads (mp3, AAC, FLAC, apple lossless and 16 bit 44.1k) as well as music videos and short films ( in various resolutions ) and photos.. i will need a fairly robust setup, i gather.
Mind you, this is all coming together as we 'speak' so bear with me.
(until a few days ago i didn't even know that i could get a host to allow me multiple sites on one account).

Like i said, i did find a couple of hosts that offer 900GB of space andd 9000GB of bw.. and i'm going to look into them.
I posted the name of the one i liked most, here on the forum, in case someone had heard of them (good or bad) - as some of the hosts i found have customers making dedicated (!) websites to vent about the shitty service they provided.. and that's on one of the 'top ten' ones!

Best

Husky

I am still astounded with the amount of space I get on Maxie, much less for about 20 bucks a year. And I'm running 4 websites from it.

I wasn't clear on the magnitudes more space you'll need, and do not understand how you can substantiate the cost for a commercial account to serve others music? Then again I'd never consider advertising from that-search-engine-everybody-uses because of their atrocious privacy practices. They keep every search ever done, associated with IP, as well as all mail and listserv traffic. Why? There is no justification other than data-mining. No thanks, I am happy with my meta-search engine, which over the past couple of years has proven every bit as thorough.

Whups, went off on another tangent.