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I presume your website is http://reversegif.com/ http://reversegif.com/ ? Cute =] The issue you're going to find is that bandwidth doesn't get much cheaper tha
by Smerity 16y ago
I presume your website is http://reversegif.com/ http://reversegif.com/ ? Cute =]
The issue you're going to find is that bandwidth doesn't get much cheaper than Amazon S3 unless you start going with hosting providers who are questionable. At $5/day with Amazon can we assume you're transferring around 30GB/day?
At this point a decidated hosting provider may be a better fit. For $40 a month you can get a dedicated box with Hetzner[1] that will allow you 2TB/month @ 100Mbit which then gets shaped to unlimited @ 10Mbit. 2000GB/31 days is basically 65 GB per day - more bandwidth than you need for the moment and at a cheaper rate than S3 can provide (2TB at Amazon S3 rates ($0.15/GB) is $300). If you can survive with lag from Germany this would be optimal.
The other (far nicer) option is to try and find a strategic partner. Someone like ICanHasCheezburger / FailBlog makes enough money from eyeballs that it may be worth their time to either provide you with money or bandwidth in exchange for a major link back to their page. Reach out to them, show them your page stats and see what sort of response you can get. They're already in a far more lucrative position as far as ad partners are concerned and can likely use your traffic to move into an even better bargaining position. They likely also have huge amounts of bandwidth spare as well which they may be more than happy to offer to you.
As another commenter said, $5/day won't kill you and I think you have quite a reasonable chance of making this back. Congrats on your success so far - if you ever come down to Sydney come along to SiliconBeach - I'd be interested to chat =]
[1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/x2 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/x2
- psyklic 16y agoI second that the site is cute =) If that is your site though, you may want to disable debugging -- it is exposing your SQL queries. (See the end of the HTML file.)
- ElbertF 16y agoYikes, I didn't mean to leave that on. Thanks for the heads-up.
- ElbertF 16y agoYes that's the site. I was actually surprised to find out it was cheaper to spend an extra 10 bucks on Linode than to offload the images to S3 although that might change if the site gets bigger. I actually contacted Ben Huh from the Cheezburger network a few months ago, he seemed interested but somewhat unimpressed with the numbers I had then. I won't kill off the site just yet, I'm prepared to lose a bit of money on it while I'm trying to figure out a solution. Thanks for the suggestions!
- metachris 16y ago+1 for hetzner, a great hosting company with good prices and a solid service. I have been using them for years and never had a problem.