Why Not Host It In Australia?

[Wacky Dee]

this being an australian site and all ie. mostly aussie visitors it'd make perfect sense to host the web site in australia too ... its so bloody slow compared to various other aussie based forum sites (eg. whirlpool, ocau etc)

with aussie hosting being so cheap nowadays I can't see why this site is hosted in the USA unless I'm missing something?? If you need hosting recommendations let me know I work in the field

[R31Nismoid]

The sheer cost is astronomical for this site.

The bandwidth is uses is massive, we were hosted in Aus up until (i think) about 2 years ago.

If ever user donated $5, then yeah, we could probably have it here in Aus.

But the state of affairs is such that to exist (even with trader cash etc) it needs to live in the US.

Other smaller sites (generally hosted at mates rates off the back of someone else/large business etc), sites that run to profit etc etc

The can exist quite easily

Im sure Christian can go into more details, but i remember costing being the number 1 issue

[Wacky Dee]

how much traffic per month are we talking about exactly?

[R31Nismoid]

http://www.big-boards.com/board/955/

Shan tells me 190gig a month bandwidth, 6.3gb a day (his estimate without christian)

Find a well prices ISP for that

[DRD-00F]

Wtf, why is Sierra Leone 13.5% of the visitors?

Also, I work for an ISP... we would rape you

[R31Nismoid]

Wtf, why is Sierra Leone 13.5% of the visitors?

No idea, i didnt even know they had the internets there yet

[Wacky Dee]

http://www.big-boards.com/board/955/

Shan tells me 190gig a month bandwidth, 6.3gb a day (his estimate without christian)

Find a well prices ISP for that

That's not much really .. if the ratio of incoming vs outgoing traffic is pretty standard ie. approx. 30gb incoming and 160gb outgoing, that's not much at all as most hosts don't pay anything for outgoing. So you could easily get something for around $100 a month.

But seeing as how the site would probably be a resource hog it's most like inappropriate for shared hosting so it'd need a dedicated box which I'm sure someone could donate or one could be sourced for a few hundred. So yeah, little upfront investment and approx. $100 a month and bob's your uncle

Edit: maybe not as cheap as colo but here's a pretty decent deal http://www.webhostingtalk.com.au/showthread.php?t=7195 - that's a massive 1000gb of premium aussie bandwidth in the best data centre in sydney plus a really beefy server all to yourself for $300/m. And no I'm in no way associated with the mob in question

Edited May 7, 2008 by Delta Force

[Skyenate]

this being an australian site and all ie. mostly aussie visitors it'd make perfect sense to host the web site in australia too ... its so bloody slow compared to various other aussie based forum sites (eg. whirlpool, ocau etc)

SAU is slow? Cant say Ive noticed that...

[D_I_F]

Not slow for me.

Why would you be complaining anyway? Christian runs this site in his spare time.

I say congrats to him on such a successful website.

[Redback]

+1 for speed. it seems to run fine for me. i dont think there is any need to change.. yeah it would be good to keep the money in australia but it the end if the current situation is little overhead and working.... let it be. im inpressed on how the site is working and always has. ive been a member of this forum since 2003 and never looked back

[Howie]

I get asked the same question on the forums I run..

http://www.sensational-adelaide.com

http://www.mrobe.org

http://www.nissanexa.com

and as always it's a matter of costs... i'd love to run from an australian server but the costs are astronomical here, and it's unlikely we'd be able to recover the costs of an essentially a free site (bar a few sponsors + the odd google ad).