Well, I spent most of my day pondering the sticky situation that I'm in. Remember way back in your school days when it was a good thing if you were popular? You know, if people liked you. Well, it's still good. Until you use all of your 8 gigs of server bandwidth and have to shut down your popular truck website.
The second guy at OLM sales was pretty helpful in offering suggestions for additions and changes to my hosting strategy. As far as the first guy goes: I might as well been talking to a 5-gallon bucket.
I asked lots of questions, took lots of notes and even sat down afterwards and made up a little spreadsheet to compare my options. To tell you the truth, none of them are very good. At the very least, upgrading my hosting to allow for more site traffic is going to cost $20 (double what I'm paying now!), if not more. The worst part is that I don't know how "high" to upgrade. My limit is currently 8GB/month and it looks like we're going to shatter that limit after only being up for four months. So, do I double it? Will we be pushing 16GB/month in another 4 months? I don't want to be doing this every four or five months. This is both stressful (to me) and painful to my wallet. It kinda sucks to be popular.
Speaking of which, my issue of Mini Truckin' magazine came today! YAY!!! And, as everyone has been telling me, CustomTacos is featured on page 10! This month, they featured 5 of their favorite websites and CustomTacos was listed at the top of the list (not necessarily meaning that it's the best, however) and also got a screenshot of the site....the ONLY screenshot of any of the websites mentioned this month! WOO HOO!! Pretty cool. So, I have a feeling that bandwidth is going to continue to go through the roof for the rest of the month at least, and perhaps calm down a bit when the next issue comes out. Brian made a funny comment about this whole situation: "Write back to minitruckin and ask if they can pull their plug! Quick! Get the lights!"
Seriously. I've been Slashdotted.
Posted by Jeff at February 20, 2002 12:23 AM
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Well, we could always forget about buying the townhouse and put ALL our money towards more bandwith, server space, a cool features for everyone to enjoy.
Posted by: Olivia at February 20, 2002 08:59 AM
not
Posted by: crazie at February 20, 2002 09:14 AM
That's a relief!
Posted by: Olivia at February 20, 2002 10:06 AM
Yeah, me too!
Posted by: Mom at February 20, 2002 02:02 PM
I miss going to the site. I've been trying to keep away to help out your bandwidth, and I'm going through serious withdrawal. And I don't even have a damned Tacoma!
Posted by: Brian, a self-proclaimed addict at February 20, 2002 09:19 PM
Why don't you start advertising that you need help with hosting. I imagine that someone with a tacoma has to own a hosting company and be nice enough to help out.
