[Cialug] New hosting solution

Wed Jan 20 15:47:37 CST 2010

I recently paid $50 to get 200 GB of google storage (to work with
picasa), and got a free Eye-Fi (wifi enabled SDHC card) that I put in my
wifes camera. Now walking into the house, and turning on the camera
loads the pictures to picasa, which feeds an RSS feed that the wifi
photo frame I bought her off woot is set to use.

Slick system, and I cannot ask for much more for picture hosting.

Jeff

Josh More wrote:
> I pay for Flickr.  I get unlimited storage, a pretty good UI and it
> costs me $20 a year.  Sure, it more than Matt's $1/mo... but not by
> much.
>
> I used to run my own server, but after being screwed over by both Quest
> and MidAmerican Energy, dealing with spam issues, and such... I find it
> easier to outsource.  It may also be that after having been a sysadmin
> type for over a decade, I don't much want to be one at home anymore.
>
>
>
>
>
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>  515-245-7701
>
>   
>>>> "Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> 01/20/10 3:33 PM >>>
>>>>         
> I think the 3 GB might be more of a problem since they have a 1 GB 
> limit.
>
> I'm in a similar situation. I have a personal server that has a few GB 
> of my own photos up for my family to view. Amount of CPU/bandwidth used 
> is very low. But the storage is a bit high. So far i've never seen a 
> hosted plan that is cheaper than just running my own server because 
> every plan always provides too little storage space.
>
> On 2010-01-20 at 15:29:10, Afan Pasalic wrote:
>   
>> I have an account at hostmonster.com and I had Gallery2 installed on
>> it. the Gallery had tons of pictures, over 3GB but number of visitors
>> are in tens a day. The Gallery was accessible for Family, cousins and
>> some friends. I think it would be ok with your policy.
>>
>> Though, to add new images I used the Gallery2 feature: FTP images on
>> the server in temp directory. Then G2 will take them and make an
>> album. Usually between 50 and 150 images will be processed. Almost
>> every time after I run the G2 it will block my account for 5-10
>> minutes because I used more process then I'm allowed. But, when I
>> talked to tech support they said if it's ok with me - it's ok with
>> them too to block me. It was ok with me: better that way then upload
>> image by image. :-)
>>
>> If I "harass" the processor 2-3 times a month because of G2 - would
>> you close mu account?
>>
>> Afan
>>
>> Matt Breitbach wrote:
>>     
>>> From Dreamhost :
>>>
>>> 7.Servers are shared with other customers, and as such IRC-related
>>> activities or severely CPU intensive CGI scripts (e.g. chat scripts,
>>> scripts which have bugs causing them to not close properly after
>>> being run, etc.) are not encouraged. Any application that listens
>>> for inbound network connections (even if the application would
>>> otherwise be allowed) are not permitted. BitTorrent clients, proxy
>>> servers/scripts, IRC bots and bouncers (BNC) specifically may not be
>>> run on any DreamHost Web Hosting server. If your processes are
>>> adversely affecting server performance disproportionately DreamHost
>>> Web Hosting reserves the right to negotiate additional charges with
>>> the Customer and/or the discontinuation of the offending processes.
>>>
>>> From GoDaddy :
>>>
>>> You agree Go Daddy reserves the right to remove Your web site
>>> temporarily or permanently from its servers if Go Daddy is the
>>> recipient of activities that threaten the stability of its network.
>>>
>>> From 1&1 :
>>>
>>> 7.16.
>>> You shall at all times use Web Site Space exclusively as a
>>> conventional Web Site. You shall not use the Web Site Space or Your
>>> Services in any way which may result in an excessive load on the 1&1
>>> Equipment, including but not limited to installing or running web
>>> proxies, using your allotted space as online backup or storage, or
>>> mirroring mass downloads. Use of Web Site Space and Your Services
>>> shall be in a manner consistent with this Agreement and shall not in
>>> any way impair the functioning or operation of 1&1's Equipment or
>>> network. Should your use of the 1&1 Services result in an overly
>>> high load on the 1&1 Equipment, in 1&1's sole discretion, 1&1 may
>>> suspend your account until the cause of any such overload is
>>> determined and resolved.
>>>
>>> 14.4.
>>> You further agree that in the event that 1&1 believes, in its sole
>>> discretion, that you have breached any provision(s) of Section 7 of
>>> this Agreement, or any of its subparts, by storing or allowing
>>> material such as that described in the aforementioned Section 7, or
>>> any of its subparagraphs, to be transmitted by 1&1's Equipment, that
>>> 1&1 may without any liability to you, and in addition to any other
>>> remedies, erase or purge such materials from 1&1's Equipment without
>>> prior notice to you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'd say that most, if not all hosting companies have some verbiage
>>> in their TOS that allows them to disable and delete an account if it
>>> is abusing the servers.  For a buck a month, I'm certainly going to
>>> shut down a blog that has 10,000 readers and consistently puts a .3
>>> load on a shared server.  Most websites don't do that though.  The
>>> verbiage is there simply to let people know that they shouldn't try
>>> to host kcci.com on a 1 dollar a month plan, or try to use their
>>> site as an FTP dump.  I don't expect that I will immediately delete
>>> any site that accidentally spikes the CPU due to unexpected load,
>>> but I do want to have verbiage that lets me delete
>>> iamagooglehacker.com from my server immediately when they try port
>>> scanning all of googles servers from my datacenter.
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Todd Walton
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:02 PM
>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] New hosting solution
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Matt Breitbach
>>>
>>> <matthewb at flash.shanje.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> The policy of monopolizing CPU/Bandwidth/Memory is pretty standard
>>>> across all hosting platforms.  If you look at anyone's TOS, it
>>>> usually says something very similar.  We just decided not to bury
>>>> it.
>>>>         
>>> Including the deleting part?  I always thought standard procedure
>>> was to throttle resource usage before it gets out of hand, not to
>>> ask users to do it and then take drastic action when they mess up.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Todd
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