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Topic: TextDrive lifetime hosting

I just wanted to let you guys know that the nice people over at TextDrive are offering a limited number of lifetime hosting deals. For $399 you get TextDrive hosting, for life! The deal includes:

  * 1 gigabyte server space (unmetered mail and database storage)
  * 20 gigabytes of bandwidth per month
  * up to 15 top-level domains (with unlimited aliases)
  * unlimited email mailboxes & aliases
  * shell access

Considering the feature list, this really is an excellent deal. The last time they did this, these things sold like hot cakes. But don't take my word for it, have a look around in their forums and see for yourself what people are saying.

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2 Reply by Dr.Jeckyl (edited by Dr.Jeckyl 2005-02-28 17:36)

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

if i only had $399 right now... nice deal.

added: will any of this go twards your dev costs?

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

10% apparently wink

pity its not higher bandwidth, if it was 100gigs i'd probably buy it smile

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Still, 20 GB is more than enough for most people (and organisations). PunBB.org consumes approx 5-6GB bandwidth per month.

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

MyPunBBs at 11795.40 Megabytes this month, then again i really need to turn gzip on, maybe 100gigs is a bit much but 50 or something, 20 just seems easy to hit maybe i'm just over estimating my sites wink

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

and some web hostind limit your CPU usage ...

I use lunarpages service, and  paid for 200 gigabytes of bandwidth per month,

but last month, lunarpages suspend my site, because my site use HIGH CPU usage ...

I use xoops for all site.

now I change to punbb, the lower CPU usage, but lunarpages still told me , I use more CPU % ...

so , how about TextDrive ? I really need a Good web hosting ...

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

TextDrive has gzip on, and they claim you get much more out of your bandwidth that way.

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

yeh you do especially for things like punbb

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

And, IIRC, you are only charged if the entire server goes over its bandwidth for the month.

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

I use about 40Gb/day ... smile

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

That's pretty crazy.

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

How? hmm

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Simply by
- fantasya.net > "a little traffic" because the final version is not online (about 10gb) ... about 5000 visitors/day (but when fantasya was famous, we grew up until 80/90 per day !)

- sortons.net > about 4000 visits/day, 150 000 pages / day and a lot of multimedia files to see or to download (sounds, videos et of course, photos) ...

but it's "nothing" > when you have a lot of multimedia, "limited" bandwidth is like a piege ...

But the price is simply great : our host is french ( http://www.ovh.fr ) ... and you have a good server (PIV 3ghZ, 512 ram, 80 Hd), and 20mb/s of bandwidth for 149 euros / month !!! (about 160$).

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Must be all the multimedia then because normally 150000 pages/day would not amount to anything near 40 GB/day. PunBB.org has approx. 15000 page views per day and the average bandwidth it consumes is 190 MB/day.

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Rickard wrote:

Must be all the multimedia then because normally 150000 pages/day would not amount to anything near 40 GB/day. PunBB.org has approx. 15000 page views per day and the average bandwidth it consumes is 190 MB/day.

I don't see on any page of the domain punbb.org a PICTURE smile no Graphics about layout, no graphic banner ... it's so "normal" the numbers are very different smile

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Yes, but still smile

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

One example smile today I have put my magazine in 3 formats
- picture gallery
- zip file (11 mo)
- pdf file (3,5 mo)

Pictures viewed 30 times about >>> 30x32 (pages) x 40 (ko average)
zip file (11 mo) downloaded 90 times >> 90x 11 mo
pdf file (3,5 mo) downloaded or viewed 50 times ... >> 3,5x50 ...

FOR ONLY ONE MEDIA (a magazine)

smile we have bandwitdh pics about 5 ~ 6mb/s on the day !!!

I admit I'm a case : all photos of sortons.net = 6 go on the disk space !!! And a lot of people don't need this.


About Textdrive I see often problems with connecting DB : normal ?

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Rod wrote:

About Textdrive I see often problems with connecting DB : normal ?

This should be a one time issue. It should have been already solved if not for the comment spam attacks recently.

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19 Reply by Jérémie (edited by Jérémie 2005-03-02 00:48)

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

This is a design issue. You want to put tons of heavy data (images and the like), you pay for it. Nothing wrong with that (in fact it's quite the opposite, your bank account is good motivation to write good and well designed websites).

About the lifetime deal, there is some question wether email storage is metered or not. And that's quite a difference.

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Not a bad deal really- say it lasts 5 years, thats what <$7 month??


Rickard wrote:

For $399 you get TextDrive hosting, for life!

But to note- from their site, it is their lifetime, not yours smile

For a one-time payment of US $399 ? this will be yours for as long as TextDrive exists. We look forward to having you with us for many years to come.

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Offer closed, they have sold out.

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

The countdown topic was crazy smile

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Darn, I couldnt get my Adsense check fast enough to buy one sad

I dont really like TXD, but if I dont have to pay monthly, I would love it. Even if it is $400

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what if company goes bankrupt???  Are we screwed then??

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25 Reply by Paul

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Re: TextDrive lifetime hosting

Yes, but you generally are when any company goes into liquidation.