S12 Workshop Manual on the Intarwebs

[30psi]

It shouldn't get raped too much now, it was when it first went live that the big rape occurred.

Fasthosts is shit, I try not to login to the control panel if I can help it

[Dr Silvia]

Hehe, shared webhosting service by any chance?

[30psi]

Na it's not via a reseller if thats what you mean

[Dr Silvia]

Ah no, you can rent webspace and allocated bandwidth, the most basic package means your site is on a cluster of servers with 1000's of others, hence being slow. You can also rent a dedicated machine [which you can remote desktop onto] with allocated bandwidth and its own cpu which does just what YOU want it to. Wether this is a virtual amchine or not is another story, but its the next step up from the basic hosting package.

/geek

[30psi]

Ah ok I see. yeah if speed was important to me then I'd look at stuff like that. Out of interest what speed would you be getting that downloading at on regular broadband?

[Dr Silvia]

erm not sure i 100% understand what you're asking there;

Domestic ADSL and ADSL MAX [upto 8Mb] will upload at either roughly 40 or 80KB/s , usually 40 with todays tight arse ISPs

ADSL2+ can manage 120/240KB/s depending on how you choose to operate your line

Basic/shared hosting you'll get a share of whats available, which will be affected by time of day, whos supplying the service, how many people are surfing websites that are on that cluster... as you can imagine, prediction is nigh impossible,

Dedicated servers tend to come with allocated bandwidth. This means that you agree on sign up how much bandwidth you want. Usually rates start at 5/10Mb/s in each direction, but from here the skys the limit, going beyond 1000Mb/s should you need it, but be prepared for one hell of a bill.

Once you start reaching the dizzy heights of dedicated servers you may however notice that you still don't get the download rate that you would expect. This is in 95% of cases down to your domestic ISP, who due to being typical of the money grabbing capitolist pigs like to get as many people on as little bandwidth as possible.

read the small print of your contract and you'll read that your "xMb/s" is being shared with upto 50 other users. Therefore you'll notice at times [like anytime from about 10-11am to about 2am] that your connection will not behave as advertised. This isn't a reflection on the server you are downloading frmo but your ISP, their infrastructure and policies.

To name but a few ISPs to avoid include tiscali/talk talk, virgin, bt and o2.

Be There are one of the few larger ISPs still offering good terms to their customers, aside from that in the UK things are pretty screwed.

We come back to companies who are quite happy to sell and get cash in but bluntly refuse to invest in the nescessary infrastructure to support the extra connections. We call this oversubscription and its rife here atm.

[nedge2k]

Originally Posted by Dr Silvia

Shouts to Nedge for the hosting

No problemos, cheers for the original effort and - now you've covered ur costs - making it freely available

[nedge2k]

2020 update

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