Comments on: Yahoo! With a Huge Web Hosting Announcement

By: sadcox

sadcox — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:34:22 +0000

Digg bursts shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve had a few of them and an Instalanche on this site and I’ve survived, and my host doesn’t give me unlimited bandwidth.

The only thing that has pushed me to my limits so far was ranking third for a porn star’s blog on Google, but that was because I’d left a bunch of .png images in my template by accident.

I think the limits on “unlimited” are along the lines that you can’t put up 200 Gb of music like a record company may do in one day or serve up a big video that gets 100s of 1000s of views a day.

If you’re in that situation, you should be making enough money that you can afford to cut a deal with them for bandwidth. I’m planning on my new site getting 10,000 page views a day with some video, and I’m not that worried about it since we’ll build slowly.

By: billymac

billymac — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:46:14 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I hadn’t seen/heard this one. I will definitely check it out. BTW, does unlimited really mean unlimited? i.e., can it withstand a digg burst?

By: sadcox

sadcox — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:43:36 +0000

HM,
Are you going to take the plunge and run WordPress? I think you’ll like it…plus you can just import all of your other stuff into it since you are skilled.

I’m most interested in Yahoo’s hosting for video. I think I may put up another site just for that. I don’t like putting certain stuff up on YouTube just because I’d be basically giving up ownership of it.

By: Hungry Mother

Hungry Mother — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:55:35 +0000

I signed up for BillsRandomThoughts.com. I’ll let you know how it goes.

By: Hungry Mother

Hungry Mother — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:12:55 +0000

Wow! Thanks for the tip. I’m going to take a look.