Here's an issue I hope someone could help me with a solution: I bought some space in bluehost.com (yeah, their $7 for 300GB disk space, 3TB bandwidth, yada yada yada) and I planned to put some of my video clips (FLV format) at bluehost while my blog stays here at my house..
All went well, with 1 "tiny" problem: lets look at a snip of the traceroute from my house to bluehost: 4 ge9-0.gw1.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.209) 38.486 ms ge0-1.gw2.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.212) 39.195 ms ge9-0.gw1.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.209) 40.675 ms 5 pos5-4.brdr1.nyc.nv.net.il (212.143.12.35) 253.237 ms pos1-0.brdr1.nyc.nv.net.il (212.143.12.13) 247.734 ms pos5-4.brdr1.nyc.nv.net.il (212.143.12.35) 255.950 ms 6 Gigabitethernet4-0.GW12.NYC4.ALTER.NET (157.130.25.37) 450.531 ms 435.170 ms 437.170 ms hmm, 435 ms at Gigabitethernet4-0.GW12.NYC4.ALTER.NET, thats a no-no for video streaming, whether it's in Flash video using HTTP or using Macromedia streaming server. So I called and asked about their business packages for shared hosting (I only need to host the file, and call it via http). Netvision, as always when it comes to price, as definately falling into the price of "surprising". For a VPS with 128MB RAM and 5GB Space you'll be paying EACH month... a $100!! I fell from my chair when I heard this offer! I could disconnect from Netivision within a minute, but my problem is that lots of my readers and viewers are coming from Israel and they are connected to Netvision, which means that they will have a problem to watch any video clip without a severe buffering problems. The only solutions I could think of right now are: 1. Buy some space at a shared hosting in Europe. 2. But some space at a shared hosting here in Israel (anyone can recommend someone with hosting solutions, BIG pipe, and a resonable price for 5-10GB disk space? I only need to host the files and access them through http). Any suggestions? tips? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
