[Novalug] hosting for large website

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:21 AM, John covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> on Thursday 06/05/2008 Greg Faust(gregfaust at gmail.com) wrote
>  > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, John covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>  > > Hi.  I am looking for a Linux friendly and possibly Debian friendly
>  > > website to host more than a terabyte of stuff -- lots of  multi-media,
>  > > etc and of course a good deal of bandwidth.
>  > >
>  > > Anyone know of such a place anywhere in the U.S.?
>  > A site that big sounds like it will have a lot of traffic.  You might want
>  > to look into using Akamai to accelerate your site regardless of where you
>  > host it.
> I expect 2000GB per month or thereabouts in traffick -- maybe more
> counting a backup server.

pshaw .. thats 6.6Mbit/sec average, I suppose given that you might
have 95tile of 14Mbit assuming a 2:1 peak to average.  Thats not a lot
of bandwidth and *lots* of places can host it.

In fact, I expect that almost any hosting provider should have no
problem with the bandwidth.  I expect that disk requirements would
make your request not fit within the click-to-buy offerings of most
hosting providers.  I don't have a concrete recommendation but I
suggest you look at Server Central (http://www.servercentral.net/). I
can at least vouch that their network infrastructure is run by
competent folks, I dunno what their hosting offerings look like.

CDN services, Especially Akamai are useful primarily content that
absolutely must load quickly. It can be critical to have a quick
initial load to keep customers from browsing away... but these
services do not come cheaply.  If price is no object... by all means.
;)