Anyone know much about webhosting?

Okay, the deal is, all my sites before have been hosted sites (GameSpy, FileFront, or mods sponsored by an ISP such as Hypernia, etc), so I actually know very little about what a website requires in the way of data transfer, etc.

I am now sick of having to put peoples banners on my site, so I thought i'd break free of that, but I have no idea what I should be looking at.

I am planning a site for the Battlefield 2 community, map tutorials, forums, reviews, and of course my own portfolio, I have more experience in BF mapping than HL, and the BF community has really never had such a site, so I feel it is a worthy market gap to try to fill.

Anyway, I dont expect traffic to be as much as the SnarkPit, but after stealthily browsing this site for 2 or 3 years now, I figure maybe finding out how much data transfer this site uses per month may help me?

I dont plan on hosting any downloads.

I also understand, everytime AskJeeves, Google and email spiders trawl a forum site it puts a hefty dent in your limit?

I have been looking at a few 10 Gb data transfer plans, which are quite cheap in australia now, but after reading around I am not sure it will be enough?

Any help appreciated :smile:

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"Lovers of the law and good sausage should never watch either of them being made."

• Otto von Bismarck

If you have the bandwidth to spare, why not run one from your own home? All you need is a small PC and a static IP address..

Worth considering.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

My site doesnt even get past 1gb data transfer a month and my maps get
dled from it quite a lot so i wud imagine 10gb is more than enuff?

SpiKeRs said:
My site doesnt even get past 1gb data transfer a month and my maps get dled from it quite a lot so i wud imagine 10gb is more than enuff?

If you mean the site in your contact info under your posts, I had a look, and your site isnt very image intensive, and HL maps are not very large in size, (Battlefield engine maps are over 40MB each, thats why I wont be hosting them myself, lol), and you have no forums, so if anything, if your site is getting to 1Gb that kind of makes me more worried, lol.

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"Lovers of the law and good sausage should never watch either of them being made."

• Otto von Bismarck

The maps may be 40 megs each, but do you actually have to host them on your site? can you not hotlink them?

/Me is confused. Do you want to be a big time site like PHL or do you just want a personalized site dedicated to full time games?

Course, since I know next to nothing about such things, perhaps its info I do not need to comprehend. :/

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The best things in life, aren't things.

If you mean the site in your contact info under your posts, I
had a look, and your site isnt very image intensive, and HL maps are
not very large in size, (Battlefield engine maps are over 40MB each,
thats why I wont be hosting them myself, lol), and you have no forums,
so if anything, if your site is getting to 1Gb that kind of makes me
more worried, lol.

good point lol