[dba-VB] ASP.NET site "hungry" for disk space and traffic...

Hi Shamil

Yes I could do that. 
Bandwidth is really no problem for Verinet as they are housed at the DIX (Danish Internet Exchange).

However, they have a co-hosting facility right in St. Petersborg:

  http://www.verinet.dk/server-hosting.htm 

I'll ask my contact what facility would be best for you. They are also present in Sweden where power charges are much lower than here.

/gustav


>>> shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru 06-10-2009 20:32 >>>
Hi Gustav,

Thank you for your feedback.
Does http://www.verinet.dk/serverhosting.htm have some information in
English for me to understand the options they have?

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It could be interesting to see what solution your client decides for.
>>>
OK, this is a start-up - the traffic I mentioned is planned to be in the
future, hopefully, next spring/summer, but you know...
Let's see how it will evolve, and if it will evolve successfully I will
write about their web site and solution here...

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I could arrange for a specified offer if you are interested.
>>>
Thank you. Do you mean you can request
http://www.verinet.dk/serverhosting.htm for a free quote of their service
costs for planned by my customer MS Windows, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server + large
(500GB) disk space hosting?

Thank you.

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Shamil

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Subject: Re: [dba-VB] ASP.NET site "hungry" for disk space and traffic...

Hi Shamil

One option is AWS, though the cost could be more the USD 300/month if you
need more CPU power. However, you can scale the CPU up and down during the
day or week:

  http://aws.amazon.com/windows/ 

For a "Large instance" (7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual
cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of instance storage, 64-bit
platform) cost would be about USD 457/month including traffic (an power):

  http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html 

Another option - at least here - is Verinet, a major player:

  http://www.verinet.dk/serverhosting.htm 

who offers top-speed transfer at very low cost. Also, they offer to deliver
dedicated hardware at prices not even the distributors can compete with:

  http://www.verinet.dk/rackhosting-serverhosting-rackserver.htm 

I could arrange for a specified offer if you are interested.

It could be interesting to see what solution your client decides for.

/gustav


>>> shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru 06-10-2009 12:43 >>>
Hi All,

I'm working here on an ASP.NET project (real estate related), which
potentially could get allocated 500GB of hard disk space, and could have
200-400GB traffic per month: this site is planned to store pictures and
video clips. I'm wondering what hosting option is the most appropriate
(/less expensive) for such an application? I guess that should be a physical
PC (or even two - second as a media stream server) installed on ISP side, or
are there any virtual hosting available for ASP.NET application under
development, which will cost within, say, USD300/month for 500GB disk space
and 200-400GB of traffic per month? 

I thought I could "split" my application to have program and database part
running on relatively inexpensive ASP.NET hosting site, and pictures and
video clips stored on another (virtual) server, and uploaded and
downloaded/transmitted from there - AFAIU in that latter case of using a
separate server for pictures/videos the traffic for their transmission to
the user will not be accounted as part of traffic of my ASP.NET site? 

Thank you.

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Shamil