Greetings Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 I've got to do a project for IT classes about web hosting. Thought it might be interesting do enhance it with opinions from abroad. I'm concentrating on servers you have to pay for, but I'll also be mentioning free web hosting. Some questions you might not want to answer (about costs etc.) but if you do, it will be a great help as I can then compare how much people are willing to pay abroad for this kind of service. For people who use free www servers: -Is your site popular on the net, or do you just run it for your own satisfaction? -Does your site have lots of media for download? -Is your site frequently offline because the server is down, the monthly transfer limit has been exceeded etc? -Would you be willing to pay i.e. 5 pounds per month for a server with a similar spec, but without downtime, popups, ads etc.? For people who pay for their servers: -What criteria do you use when choosing which www server to buy? -Does your site have lots of media to download? -Do you have a monthly transfer limit, if so how often do you use it up? -How much do you pay for your account per month? -Do you value the possibility of having a custom e-mail address (if available)? -What administration panel do you use? -What features in the administration panel do you value most? Sorry for the language, I don't quite know the english computer jargon Cheers, Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 For people who pay for their servers: -What criteria do you use when choosing which www server to buy? Location, speed, server specs, network links, uptime-Does your site have lots of media to download? No-Do you have a monthly transfer limit, if so how often do you use it up? Yes, never-How much do you pay for your account per month? Not saying -Do you value the possibility of having a custom e-mail address (if available)? Yes-What administration panel do you use? Direct Admin and cPanel-What features in the administration panel do you value most?Simplicity and functionality.. stats, database setups, dont really use it that much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 For people who pay for their servers: -What criteria do you use when choosing which www server to buy? Me personally, because i am in a specific market, i look for bandwidth, space, and connection. I might also take into account location, but with the ever growing carrier links and line quality, this is becoming less of a major factor. Atleast for me it is.-Does your site have lots of media to download?Currently, not a lot. I used to have 25gb that was free'ly available and downloadable-Do you have a monthly transfer limit, if so how often do you use it up?First month of having server, so can't say. On old server for the last 4 months of its life, it was maxed out between the 14th of a month, and the 27th. The limit was 1200gb-How much do you pay for your account per month? Not disclosing current cost as it got me in trouble last time. However, for certain packages i'll expect to pay seperate amounts. Currently, servermatrix.com is a good benchmark for pricing, as is 49pence.co.uk. Also, the current "standard" is 1200gb bandwidth and an 80gb hard drive for dedicated servers, so if you look for prices, thats mainly the resources you will come across.-Do you value the possibility of having a custom e-mail address (if available)? Yes, if only i knew how to setup DNS so i could setup the mail server properly -What administration panel do you use? Webmin. Its free, open source, and did i mention, its free.-What features in the administration panel do you value most? The deamon stuff like being able to restart my FTP server, MySQL server, so and so forfth. Also helps figuring out the often confusing .conf files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 For people who use free www servers: -Is your site popular on the net, or do you just run it for your own satisfaction? I run it for my own satisfaction-Does your site have lots of media for download? Nope-Is your site frequently offline because the server is down, the monthly transfer limit has been exceeded etc? It's only been offfline once when the server I hosted it with was hacked. -Would you be willing to pay i.e. 5 pounds per month for a server with a similar spec, but without downtime, popups, ads etc.? Yes For people who pay for their servers: -What criteria do you use when choosing which www server to buy? Large monthly bandwidth limit and large storage space.-Does your site have lots of media to download? Nope-Do you have a monthly transfer limit, if so how often do you use it up? Yes, not used it up yet.-How much do you pay for your account per month? Not sure about monthly but it's around £35 a year.-Do you value the possibility of having a custom e-mail address (if available)? Yes.-What administration panel do you use? The one built into www.digital-crocus.com-What features in the administration panel do you value most?Being able to easily find the file you want to up load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 For people who pay for their servers: -What criteria do you use when choosing which www server to buy? Bandwidth, Storage, Uptime, Cost, built-in Mailbox-Does your site have lots of media to download? Not really, but I've got quite a few sites on it, so amounts to a few gig a month. Nothing like TS or anything though. Not videos or such. Just websites and a few high res pics.-Do you have a monthly transfer limit, if so how often do you use it up? Yeah it's 10gb. I rarely get there. Use around 4-5 gig on a monthly basis. Depends on videos behind hosted and if I'm hosting any new websites which are used lots-How much do you pay for your account per month? Only £30 a year. Pretty good.-Do you value the possibility of having a custom e-mail address (if available)? Any account with Digital Crocus, or a URL which you buy you're entitled to having a email address for it. I need the custom email's.-What administration panel do you use? Digital Crocus internal one-What features in the administration panel do you value most? I'd like if the email inbox worked. I don't really use the CP apart from database setting up. Use FTP mainly with Dreamweaver so.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted April 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Not very much feedback but thanks a lot guys, it's been a great help And thanks to whoever kept the topic clean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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