Re: Linux netlabel?

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Hartmut Noack wrote:
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> Atte André Jensen schrieb:
>> Hartmut Noack wrote:
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>>> If somebody is willing to make such a site, I would be happy to
>>> support it by offering collaboration in development of the site and
>>> hosting it for free on my server....
>> I think bandcamp was a valid point regarding bandwidth. For instance I 
>> had 400+ plays of modlys songs the last week + a few downloads, and I'm 
>> just little me. Supposed someone got really popular with, say 10x the 
>> traffic of little me. Supposed you hosted 10 of such artist...
>>
>> My math might be wrong, but with 4MB/song that would be about 4 * 40000 
>> / 1024 = 156 Gb in a week. Even without download of albums in high 
>> quality, I feel that might be taxing on most hostings. Or would you, 
>> Hartmut, be prepared to handle such a load? I might be totally wrong, 
>> and this load could be peanuts...
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> OK - not really peanuts but not fearsome either. I got 2000 Gigs in my
> contract and with say 16.000 plays per day(that is: near the limit), one
> could seriously think about an upgrade to a contract with unlimited
> traffic. I use this box for my job-purposes so I pay for it anyway, as
> of now using only a tiny fraction of the traffic included.
> And don`t you think, that with 15.000 users per day, all of them
> interested enough to play songs from it - could it not be possible, that
> one could make some revenue with such a site, that would pay for its
> bandwith and maybe even for the hosted artists? ;-)

Hmm, I think my family's hosting plan has 1TB/month transfer. Through 
GoDaddy.com.

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