People with hosted sites...

[Athas_orm]

If any of you hosts your own website. I'd like to know much space you actually use? I'm guessing for photography you use rather a lot?

Also is your bandwidth usage high? Partly curiosity partly a sinister reason.

[CanonRebelz]

Right now I only upload my Project 365 stuff and a few other photos I've taken about to my site and portraits(which have died down since its winter and snowy/very cold here and I don't have a studio). I know this is sad because I haven't uploaded all my entire photos to my site and I've only had it since November but so far I've got about 500MB worth on there and so far this months bandwidth usage is about 200+ MB(bout 3506 page views according to smugmug and google analytics).

[Jim Poor]

I don't currently store high-res images on my site, but I'm using 25-30GB right now.

[Murtasma]

Many hosting sites offer unlimited storage for a few dollars a month. They pretty much have to now to stay competitive in the market. I pay about 2 dollars a month for unlimited bandwidth and storage.

[Jim Poor]

The problem with most "umlimited" bandwidth and storage sites is that they are far from unlimited and can cut you off in an instant with no warning.

Check the fine print.

Lunarpages, for example, limits the number of files you can have on your site. You can have one HUGE file of any size, but go over their file limit with small files and they will cut your account off.

They also have some fine print about "impacting" server performance. They don't publish it anywhere, but they limit you to 1% of server resources which isn't really enough to do much of anything.

[RustySterling]

Originally Posted by Murtasma

Many hosting sites offer unlimited storage for a few dollars a month. They pretty much have to now to stay competitive in the market. I pay about 2 dollars a month for unlimited bandwidth and storage.

Yeah, that's me too: unlimited storage and bandwidth for less than $2 a month.

[Athas_orm]

Originally Posted by Jim Poor

I don't currently store high-res images on my site, but I'm using 25-30GB right now.

Wow thats a lot of space considering you only store low res photographs.

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In general throughout the thread thats actually a lot higher than I thought / hoped.

Wes

[DannyF1966]

I've got two Wordpress blogs, a pixelpost blog and a php genealogy thing on my site, with all the associated family photos. I'm using 250Mb of my 1Gig space, and 340Mb of 10Gig bandwith (I presume the bandwidth is this month only). I don't promote my site, it's probably only visited by me, a few friends and family, the occasional click from my sig here, and web spiders

[toasted75]

If you're worried about space, you can store the vast majority of your images on a site like Flickr and still display them on your site as you normally would - that way the space/bandwidth for those images comes from Flickr and not your host.

[Jim Poor]

Yep, but I've got about 140K of them on the site at the moment,

Originally Posted by Athas_orm

Wow thats a lot of space considering you only store low res photographs.

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In general throughout the thread thats actually a lot higher than I thought / hoped.

Wes