I use dreamhost also for my own website, and I serve my CS map files from there. Works great, and as already mentioned, unlimited bandwidth and storage (amongst other things).
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Crazy Canucks <crazy_canu...@rogers.com>wrote: > I think I've found what I'm looking for, thanks for the responses. My > clan has very specific needs. We run game nights every Friday and > Saturday night and we're not big, we're lucky if we have eight show up > on a game night, so we use bots a lot just to fill out numbers. > > We run eight different mods, and every Thurs and Fri we vote for Fri > night's game (which mod we are going to run) and on Sat for Sat night's > game. The only cost effective way we have to do this is host our own > server as we require a lot of space, but not much bandwidth, and during > the rest of the week we host a website with forums, stats and whatnot. > > So we host this all on a business cable connection. And while we do > quite well with the servers, we do have very limited bandwidth, and file > hosting just isn't an option. We run quite a few custom maps for a > couple of the mods we play, and hosting our own files for fast downloads > isn't possible with the bandwidth that we have available - we are really > pushing the envelope with what we do have. > > Anyway, the tldr version is that we don't really need more than 1GB of > bandwidth per month for fast downloads because during an average month > we may only be running servers with custom content three nights in a > month, we don't add custom content all that often, and all of our custom > files are available off our website or another website that is nice > enough to provide them, and we encourage our members to download and > install during the week and save the fast downloads for pubs that don't > have the custom content. > > That was a long tldr... > > The upshot is, if you ever need advice on running servers on extremely > limited bandwidth, I'm your man. I've been doing it for years with good > results. I expect many of you might not believe me, but I've actually > hosted a 12 slot FA server on 192kb upload bandwidth before, and believe > it or not, it ran well. That was years ago and thankfully we have a lot > more bandwidth than that now, but we are still definitely bandwidth > challenged... :) > > Cheers, Drek > > On 24/04/2010 2:56 PM, ics wrote: > > Just out of interest, what game do you plan to run and have the host > > for? Do you think 1 GB/ month really is enough? > > > > -ics > > > > 24.4.2010 20:17, Crazy Canucks kirjoitti: > > > >> I realize this might not be the best place to ask for this help, but I > >> know the people on this list are knowledgeable and connected, and that's > >> what I need, and this is related to HLDS. > >> > >> I'm looking for a fast download host for custom content for my clan's > >> game servers. > >> > >> This is what I am looking for: > >> > >> 4 GB storage space > >> 1 GB bandwidth per month > >> some way to upload and download files > >> basic web hosting (can just be an ip, no domain necessary, but I don't > >> want to have to pay for another domain, so it needs some kind of ip or > >> url access) > >> > >> If anyone knows where I could find something like this, or close to > >> this, reasonably priced (under $10/month) I'd be grateful. > >> > >> Drek > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
