Have you considered moving your site off HE and putting it on a good DSL line? If you\'re someplace Speakeasy.net or equivalent offers service, that can work out cheaper than hosting + however you go online now. And there are no bandwidth charges. I\'ve had medium-traffic websites running through several DSL providers for a few years now, and much prefer it over hosting services - doesn\'t take much hardware to serve Apache well.
Put enough storage on it, and you could run even this site off a Zaurus.
I currently have speakeasy dsl with 1.5mb down/768 up... I would need to increase the upspeed quite a bit in order to serve the site and not see a significant slow down.
I\'ve briefly thought about hosting the site completely from home, but with the site being constantly busy, and so many people depending on it, I feel more comfortable with it at the colo facility.
As I don\'t think that Devnet will come back tommorow, what solution have you choosen to reduce the site used bandwidth (I\'m curious)?
A couple months ago I put a server up on my dsl at home, and moved all of the downloads to the server. This has helped with the bandwidth a bit, but we\'re still averaging 100gb/month with just the main site (forums, wiki, etc.)
I\'m looking at different hosting providers who can offer the bandwidth we need at a reasonable cost. I\'m pretty close to getting in on a great deal.
Honestly, I\'m not looking to reduce the bandwidth utilization, except for maybe optimizing the site a bit. The donations are very helpful, but as long as I can still afford to pay for it, I won\'t look at any drastic changes.
I would rather add advertisers to help with the costs, and continue to build up the site and offer more services to the community.
Who knows... maybe I\'m crazy :shock:
