asmith Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Hey guys I'm making a game site, which I have to save so many game replays on the site available for everyone to download anytime they want. the game replays can start from 200 kb to 1mb. each day I can have minimum 3 mb to save up to 25 mb save. with the 3 gb disk space i have. I will be run over soon. so matter how I try to have bigger storge , If I get 10 gb, I will run out of it soon. Is there ANY way I could solve such problem? Any idea would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 id remove posts or replays after a certian amount of days so one month. that should keep space cleared up a bit buy 25 gig space or so and remove old posts you should be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooney Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Do what dropfaith said. I would also recommend getting more space, 3gb is nothing. You can get 1tb of storage for under $100. That would give you space to archive the old stuff rather than delete it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylex Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 You can also switch to storing it on a cloud storage system, like Amazon's S3 or Softlayer's CDN. These options are nice if you're just starting out and need one low cost setup that can grow with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 what media format is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zane Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 It's hard to believe that the day has come where a terabyte of storage is actually only 100 bucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 What comes after a "terabyte"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zane Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 a petabyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLewis Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Ooohhhh. Haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 it is not a popular format, only the game itself can run such file. if you don't have the game, file is unknown on your system. buying 1 tb space sounds fine. I gotta ask my administrator how much i gotta pay him for that. I don't know about the Amazon's S3 or Softlayer's CDN. Will google them. I tried to zip one file with : $file = 'the_file.ext'; exec("zip -9 the_file.zip $file"); but almost nothing changed in size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 Do what dropfaith said. I would also recommend getting more space, 3gb is nothing. You can get 1tb of storage for under $100. That would give you space to archive the old stuff rather than delete it. I have not contact my site admin. But I read in their site: additional disk space per 1,000 mb £3 per month Buying a tb disk space is different than that billing term ? Something special I must told them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Do what dropfaith said. I would also recommend getting more space, 3gb is nothing. You can get 1tb of storage for under $100. That would give you space to archive the old stuff rather than delete it. I have not contact my site admin. But I read in their site: additional disk space per 1,000 mb £3 per month Buying a tb disk space is different than that billing term ? Something special I must told them? Lol... FYI, that'll be £3,000/month for 1 TB. If you have that kind of money to spend on that then I won't mind if you send me some as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 That's why I asked then what is this : You can get 1tb of storage for under $100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 That's probably for buying a hard disk yourself. However, a branch of the company that owns my VPS provider can give you a dedicated server with 4*500 GB for £130/month (along with 3.5 TB bandwidth, 2 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo E4500, 5 IPs). I can't vouch for their dedicated servers or managed VPS, but I'm pretty satisfied with the part of their company selling unmanaged VPS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 haha i feel lucky that my server is hosted by my freind and former business partner so i have 3tera to use for free er well as long as he holds his job at the company who owns the server we spilt it for our side projects Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 The thing is I won't be making money with it. So paying for like dedicated servers is far away. I thought maybe there were some solutions in these cases. If I want to delete the old data, That's not archive then xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 You can probably get a custom deal with an unmanaged VPS provider so that you get a lot of storage, but not so much of the other kinds of resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 I found this : http://www.servage.net/ In one of the thread the guy asking about how youtube is saving 100 million videos. I still can't believe the prices... Is it a dream ? xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Considering you do not have root access I'm not impressed. Having that beats all their "features". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 ATM I'm working on a dedicate server (not my site), and I run 2 personal sites (shared servers). This site i want to make, is already in a share. and i don't think i need having the root access. But I can have all those features for 6-7$ per month ???? I'm paying for a shared server, 3 GB storage for about 50$/3 months and the site has ultimate 24/7 support. the servage is claiming 510 GB for about 20$ / 3 months. That's not even comparable , Or am i wrong and so noob on this ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zane Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Yeah root access is always good. I've never had it on any webserver I've owned so it probably doesn't bother me not to have but it probably would seeing has there is all that space and nothing to do with it but upload. Usually I'd expect a dedicated server to come with root acces. I've never seen a typical hosting site provide it though Great pricing though! you can't beat $180/(2 years and 5 months) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 the servage is claiming 510 GB for about 20$ / 3 months. I don't know how you came to that conclusion. It says that if you pay for three months at a time then you'll pay 49 DKK/month. 49 DKK = 9 USD so that gives 27 USD for three months. Also, did you read what their pages said? They said it was possible to provide that because they expect that people are not using it. That sounds pretty ridiculous to me. You should always expect that people use what they pay for... That means you shouldn't sell the same thing twice (which they imply they do). It's like when travel agencies double book plane tickets because they expect a certain portion of the customers cancel. When all of the customers then actually show up at airport check-in they're screwed because they've been overselling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 I totally agree with you idea Daniel. But again it is a great deal for me. The prices with this one I am using are not even comparable. The question is, IF all their clients use their 510 GB, then they will broke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Probably. If they did that then they'd need 87 PB (seeing as they say they host 179132 accounts) which is quite a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooney Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Anyone know how fast you can download/upload with them? Lots of storage means nothing if you could mail it faster than download it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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