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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:30 pm 
Hi folks,


Martin@FNL (Disco3.co.uk etc) has suggested that I talk to you guys about hosting.


Warning: I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to look after myself, and run two websites at the moment:


A business site: http://www.speedview.co
(WordPress + MyBB, UK traffic at the moment and only on .co because there's a squatter on .co.uk/.com)

A family/personal site: www.cosic.org.uk
(we use this as a photobucket/dropbox for posting images on forums/sharing files than a website website)


Dreamhost says:
250Mb disk/10 Gb bandwidth on the business one
15 Gb disk/10 Gb bandwidth on the personal one


They're both with 123-reg for domains and a shared server on DreamHost at the moment, mostly because that's what the chap who set them up for me in 2006 used at the time and it hadn't gone wrong up until now.


It is adequate for sharing all the images or static content that you like, but not good once it needs CPU/Memory it seems. The first Google crawl killed it and when I asked Dreamhost they said that the server robot kills your site if it uses >16 Mb RAM. So I can post as many images on as many forums as I like, but if too many people click through to my WordPress/MyBB site it falls over. Looking at the offerings, I think I'd like to transfer the business site across.


Questions:

Can I disable the thing that disables image hotlinking/track where they are going?

Commercially I'd like the (watermarked/with web link) images to be spammed as widely as possible across various car forums and bandwidth seems fairly cheap as advertising goes.


Will I hit any CPU/memory limits on a shared host?

I use hypercache on the WordPress site, and the MyBB forum is lightly trafficed. (by that point the customer has probably already made the buy decision and is just after detail images of their vehicle) I need to keep it as a forum because the customers upload their own 'How To' guides and they're used to the BBcode. I have no idea how to check what CPU/memory I am using by the way - installing the


Can I add bandwidth as needed?

If I switch just the business site I'd start on the 'Power Plan' for 20Gb bandwidth. Can I switch to 'Premier Plan' at a later date without changing anything technical? If bandwidth hits 50Gb, can I buy more without doing anything technical/going VPS route etc?

What is the likely cost? I see £2/Gb/month on the reseller page - is that the 'typical rate' or a 'penalty/emergency rate' for bandwidth? (£12/mo for the first 50 Gb then £2 for each 1 Gb thereafter?)


Thanks,

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Marko


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Sorry about that guys. I thought that SFTP was secure FTP all these years. :huh:

Now using that FileZilla and all is working well. I've got a question on the migration/MySQL that I'll start a new thread for.


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Marko,

Ah no problem, you can connect via sFTP but we recommend secure FTP via TLS instead.

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