Starshadw at aol.com <Starshadw at aol.com> writes on 17 June 2002 at 09:43:10 -0400 > OK, as I said, I'm not too savvy when it comes to hosting services > and what it all boils down to meaning, so if anyone out there has > more experience and could help out with choosing which plan to go > with, that would be great! I've never used an external hosting company, so I'm not familiar with traps, tricks, and pitfalls. But I run a bunch of sites and have worked on more at last job, and I know something about capacity planning. > www.f5hosting.com has a number of plans, but I don't think we need > the upper end ones (at least not for the foreseeable future). > The $10 plan has: > 20 Meg Storage > 5 gig transfer > 10 Pop3 accounts > 0 Subdomains > > My main concern is whether 20 Meg is enough space > > The $12.95 plan has: > 50 Meg Storage > 7 gig transfer > 25 Pop3 accounts > 2 Subdomains Lots of places will let you upgrade an account fairly easily, so maybe you could start with the smaller plan and upgrade if needed. It does make one more thing to keep an eye on, though. >From the dragaera list archive, it looks like each 100 messages occupy about 450,000 bytes. At that rate you can actually start to eat into 20meg in something less than geological time. So make some guesses about messages per month, and how many months archive you want to keep around, and see how that goes. Messages are likely to average shorter on a web-board, since most of them don't support quoting, and the user interface generally just isn't amenable to extended prose, but I wouldn't venture to guess *how much* shorter. You're *very* unlikely to run into the 5 gig transfer limit (I assume that's per month?) unless you start serving a lot of graphics, or get really unexpectedly popular. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info