How do you cover the bandwidth cost of coding?
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| EDIT: Ooops - mods please move to General I had a dyslexic moment... I was just looking through the web stats on my team's game site and I got to wondering how on Earth indi developers pay for all that bandwidth? I know how my team manages because we dont pay a penny, but I know this is not a deal open to most people and I remember back in the days when my team did pay for bandwidth it was a huge issue for us and our site was frequently going down. How do you guys manage to keep your sites running? Is everyone on a work/college server, considering it a necessary business expense? Or actively avoiding publicity to save on costs? |
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| Work part time? Thats what I do... granted im only 16 and not making big indy projects though |
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| I don't have bandwidth costs.. no transfer limit. Still... I really haven't got anything to show on the site.. hehe oh.. and I work full time.. |
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| I rent mine for £15 a year. |
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| Perhaps there should be a sticky thread that lists good good web hosts, i need one for my game that is: a, cheap/free b, has php c, has mySQL but i am a bit in the dark as to what is a good deal. Cheers Charlie |
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| My team use www.vapourhost.com who are very reliable and very cheap - but it's not free hosting. My site hasn't really had a new game released in years but it still puts out over 1gb of bandwidth out every day, which at regular hosting rates would be very expensive. I'm suprised this isn't a problem for more developers, in that standard hosting deals just dont work for games sites. |
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| Banshee, I pay <$10 a month for 2 GB of web space and 30GB data transfer @ www.softcomca.com 2 GB Disk Space 30 GB Data Transfer 50 POP3 Email Accounts Web Album PHP and Perl SPAM Filtering Anti-Virus Protection MS FrontPage Extensions MS Active Server pages FREE Linux Account and more... IPete2. |
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| I know how my team manages because we dont pay a penny, but I know this is not a deal open to most people and I remember back in the days when my team did pay for bandwidth it was a huge issue for us and our site was frequently going down. I have my site hosted with Godaddy.com -- they recently increased their economy plan to a whopping 5GB storage space, with 250GB/month bandwidth allowance. (also allows PHP or ASP, frontpage, 10 MySQL databases, email, webmail, statistics, and some basic web-based administrative tools... all for a paltry $3.95 a month. Normally I would have avoided a place with those kind of specs and prices like the plague because it sounds too good to be true, but they kind of sprung it on me recently when they increased their bandwith, storage space & # of databases all by ten-fold for the same price... I've used them for the past year or so, and never noticed any downtime or slow download speeds (I won't be using 5GB of space anytime soon, but it's nice to have the ability to store an entire DVD worth of data off-site for backup purposes as well). |
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| Lunarpages.com 7.95/Month for: Free domain name for life, up to 3000 mb storage, AND 400 gb of bandwidth per month. I think that's probably the best deal you can get on the net since lunarpages has awesome customer service and is very fast. Check it out! |
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| https://www.b-one.net/ just select english language. |
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| I think Boiled Sweets was advertising, using words like 'expanding' and 'blazing'. :P |
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| My website runs off my computer. Thats why if two people download, you can wait till Xmas 2007 for the release. it's okay though- You'll still have it before [edited out comment] |
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| http://www.powweb.com 5gb webspace All the bells and whistles 300GB Monthly Bandwidth $7.70 per month. |
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| http://www.trwebdesign.co.uk/hosting.htm I use package 4, and it goes a long way.. |
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| Sell stuff :D I just upgraded to PowerVPS to handle the additional capacity, they offer some really nice stuff. |
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| Got free webspace with my ISP. No PHP though, so I pay them an extra £4.69 a month for some really excellent hosting, see http://www.stefanholmes.com/ for an example. |
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| Bandwidth is not that expensive. I pay $100 a year ... and that easily covers about 52,000 downloads. |
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| Useful thread. |
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| Jono, I merely pasted my providers blurb. I do not work for them or want to. Nor do they pay me in any shape or form or give me anything for passing this information on. Hell I was just answering the question. Shoot me but I am innocent of all crimes... |
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| I HIGHLY HIGHLY recomend servstra.com ... they only do dedicated servers: A low end server cost about $100 a month, but if you need a dedicated server, and can't afford rackspace.com, it is a great host! |
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| I got freebandwith for 30$ month. Im hosting a game there not a server ! |
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| I got freebandwith for 30$ (INSERT: per) month. Doesn't exactly say 'free' to me... |
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| I was just looking through the web stats on my team's game site and I got to wondering how on Earth indi developers pay for all that bandwidth? Here in the USA, if you are running a business, hosting and bandwidth would be a legitimate "business expense" and therefore tax-deductible.However, bandwidth is extremely cheap, and most professional hosting services run by legitimate companies offer at least 100GB of bandwidth per month for $9.99 (USD). Some companies offer a lot more bandwidth for the same price range. |
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| I have 20euros for year, 1GB size and unlimited bandwidth etc. (It includes domain so its basicly free). And this is not one of those yankee scam sites you usually see. Have been using it for about 2 years no probs so far.. It's for Finnish/Estonian customers only though. |
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| www.freenetname.co.uk is a good one to go for they offer free domain hosting they only as is that you use them as your ISP :D |
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| Bandwidth has certainly come down in price since I last paid for it, which is nice to know as it was horrible before. I remember paying £30 a month (~$50-55) and the site would opt out of existence for extended periods all the same. |
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