[thelist] looking for serious hosting

[Tom Webb]

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Tom Webb

At 11:53 AM 11/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>It looks like we may lose our current hosting deal. Oh no...
>So I'm looking at options.
>This site is a big one, and I may be underestimating our stats.
>Disk space: 10 Gig at least.
>Number of sessions daily: 40,000 and climbing
>Ad views: 5 millions monthly and climbing
>bandwidth: no clue, but it's high. Just in August, we had one 10Meg file
>downloaded over a million times.
>
>Technical requirements:
>CGI server
>ASP server with MS SQL for the admin section
>load balancing between CGI, multimedia and straight HTML
>mailing aliases
>pop accounts
>at least one mailing list (25,000 users)
>multiple FTP accounts
>hmmm. what else...
>
>Our site is currently spread over 8 *nix servers, and one NT. The message
>boards are hosted on another 8 NT boxes, but those are not dedicated to us.
>I don't know how much strain our own message boards put on those boxes.
>
>Our current deal is sweet but about to go sour. We're unlimited in all of
>the above, and they pocket the money from our ads. The site is
>not-for-profit and we're perfectly willing to let someone else get the money
>from the ads, as long as we get a little bit to cover our expenses.
>
>Any suggestion?
>
>Hosting it ourselves is probably out of the question. High bandwidth where I
>live is too expensive, and no one else on the team is technical enough to be
>put in charge of a server, let alone a farm.
>
>
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