[OSM-talk] Slippymap Hosting Recommendations

[Lambertus]

Ray Booysen wrote:
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008 1:56 PM, Lambertus <osm at na1400.info 
> <mailto:osm at na1400.info>> wrote:
> 
>     Jeremy Adams wrote:
>      > Do they really offer 1.5TB of storage and 15TB of transfer a
>     month for
>      > $6.95?
>      >
>     Aparently so. There are other companies in the US providing similar
>     services. I guess they rely on the fact that most users will never
>     really use so much space and bandwidth.
> 
>     Then there is also the 'catchall' clause where you are only allowed to
>     use an hour (or so) CPU time a day. Your site is move to another server
>     when you go over the limit and will be closely monitored. If that
>     happens often you can/will be removed from their hosting.
> 
> Hey Jeremey
> 
> Do you have a link for this clause?
> 
Well, I looked it up for the one such hoster I've been looking at 
before: Dreamhost. They used to have a 'hard' CPU policy but have 
changed that since.

Hoster: http://www.dreamhost.com
Blog about CPU restrictions: 
http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/

So I was a bit too harsh in my last paragraph, but it appears from the 
comments that having a popular WordPress blog is enough to classify you 
as a heavy user... The first paragraph remains though, hosters like 
Dreamhost oversell their bandwidth and diskspace.

Looking at Hostmonter however gives a different picture: They seem to 
have a more hard CPU usage limit where they even shutdown a site 
sometimes: http://helpdesk.hostmonster.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=361