tlchost wrote:Saturn wrote:How much storage?
And I am guessing that no support is included? or crappy support?
Their web page shows how much storage for each plan....the cheap plans show no control panel(Can be added at extras cost).
Seems to me one needs to hear the details from the horse's mouth, and preferably something in writing.
With all the Ladies of the Night in the hosting business, you must be very careful that you do not pick one that you can't take home to meet the parents.
i have 20Gb storage with my quickpacket vps. you do get a SolusVM control panel that lets you reboot, reformat/ image, change any setting you like as well as shows how much bandwidth you have used etc etc.
its an unmanaged vps, all you do is install debian 32 bit from the SolusVM panel and then wait a few mins, use putty or linux terminal to ssh into it and run apt-get update, then apt-get install lighttpd pureftp-server
this will setup your webserver and ftp login for people to upload.
lighttpd by default serves from /var/www/
whatever you put in that dir will be instantly viewable.
to setup ftp logins for people you just type:
adduser then it will ask for user and pass. Then you tell your uploaders their user and pass and their files they upload will by default reside in: /home/username
however you can edit lighttpd.conf to serve out /home/
and aslong as you have an index.html file there you can have your usual website there, then you setup a url for each of the users home dirs, so whatever user uploads stuff, say his name is tom, then
www.yourwebsite.com/tom
will take you to toms uploaded files.
this is how i would do it, it basicly needs no more configuration or upkeep once done.
I can do this for you if you like. take only a minute.
Once and or if you fill the vps, then rent another one at $15 a year and then you might want to have one for iso's and one for packages or something, but you only need one domain name. Say the first one is used for isos and the second is used for packages, then your website just points to the ip addy of the second vps for packages etc..... or whatever, not telling you how to setup your own damn site, just giving an example of spreading space over multiple servers....
im kinda in the middle of expanding myself, ill have a Pussy DVD version that will be 4.3GB in size to serve and then a USB version of that the same size, so im gonna separate my personal projects and my linux stuff over 2 servers but have one website.
So people will goto thepussycatforest.info still and it will look the same, but when the visitor clicks on pussy linux download then the url for that points to the ip of the new server, so essentially i have 20Gb in space i can just use for ISOs. When the visitor clicks on other stuff or uses one of the game servers i host then it will still use the first server.
difference in url links to do this (all on the main webpage on the first server):
<a href="
http://thepussycatforest.info/verse/comic/">view latest comic </a> <---------- comic dir hosted on first vps
<a href="
http://203.18.74.11/iso/"> download pussy linux </a>
that second one shows how to link to the isos hosted on the second server. This works seamlessly and the user is none the wiser, and when they click back button on their browser they return to the main page on the first server.
I usually just host files by themselves in a directory with no html lists set out in a visually pleasing manner, however other people prefer the better looking way of linking each individual file to a url on a html page as this lets you design more visually appealing sites but requires alot more upkeep. The method i described pretty much runs itself. But i keep things as simple as possible so this may or may not be the option for you.
I explained this stuff not just for your benefit as i know you already know all this and have administered websites for a long time, i went into the technical aspects of it for others reading this who may not be experienced with this type of thing.
but anyway... yeah quickpacket is unmanaged, so its up to you to do everything, and i am offering to setup a system like mentioned above for you, its no problem. but all the newer type things like mysql and fancy type things i have no idea at all whatsoever. A single main page with dirs containing files (if files need explaining i usually have a README.txt) is about my limit, i havent learned anything more sophisticated because ive had no need.
hope it all works out and keep well my friend.