Hartmut Noack wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Atte André Jensen schrieb: >> Hartmut Noack wrote: >> >>> 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... > > 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. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
