people who need mp3 storage.

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If you are stick of mp3.com and all copycat "free" storage places i just found a great place. http://www.digitalspace.net you can get 10Mb of storage for $3/month. You have to register a domain seperately, but you can have whatever domain you want then have your mp3s. I think its a pretty good deal for simple space like that.
 
kristian, are you sure it is only 10mb of storage? Thats not much for $36 a year. 100mb I could see, but there are lots of places on the net that will give ten mb for free.
 
www.artistlaunch.com
$14.95 year

alot of people also use NoWhereRadio....mostly free....Waldo has been hanging out here so maybe he or someone else can tell you exactly what is free there.......
 
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ok before i start reaching my leg down the phone line and kicking your asses....

1)this is for DOMAIN fuckign HOSTING... not mp3 storage space under long extended URLs:rolleyes:

2)how long do you think these free sites will stay up compared to all the other free sites that only last a year +/- a couple months.

3)you are just cooler if you have a domain. computers are the new muscle cars :D
 
http://www.phpwebhosting.com

9 bucks a month for website hosting with UNLIMITED space and UNLIMITED monthly data transfers. They also have a TON of other features all for one price. I use this webhost for my site and it screams! And when I download files on my cable modem I get like 300 k a second. Have a couple posts here in the clinic for download.

I have about 250 megs of space taken up on there and do quite a bit of datatransfer and it rocks.

http://www.codyyoung.com
 
A few thoughts on DigitalSpace's plans and hosting in general

The first thing that came to mind with DigitalSpace's $3 plan was "monthly transfer limit". Both the $3 and $7 packages have a 2.5GB monthly transfer limit. This isn't that bad, as it will allow users approximately 600-800 downloads in a month (or about 20-25 per day), assuming your .mp3 file is the standard 3-4MB in size.

However, if you have larger or multiple mp3's, or a lot of downloads, your download traffic will most likely increase, and you may run over your limit before the end of the month. This could cause downloads to no longer work for the month, or cost you a premium charge per MB for further downloads in the month. And, if you regularly run over the limit, the service may either pressure you to upgrade, or even upgrade you automatically. Make sure to find out what DigitalSpace's policies are regarding this.

A quick note on "unlimited" download capacity and space; though a vendor may advertise this, if your download traffic or disk usage is too high, they may try to get you to switch to an alternate hosting option. Read the fine print and, more importantly, check with the company to find out exactly what "unlimited" means.

The second thing that came to mind with the DigitalSpace $3 plan is that 10MB is not a lot of space to store mp3's. You will get two, maybe three on the site, with the rest of the space used for graphics, pages, etc. The $7 50MB plan has better space, but the download capacity is still limited (read above).

Finally, if you go with DigitalSpace's $3 account, you will have to pay the entire year in advance. Granted, this is only $36, but if you aren't happy with the service, you're still out the money, plus whatever your new hosting company charges. (10 days is not a lot of time to evaluate a web service - many give you 30)

DigitalSpace's $7 account is billed quarterly, and their "Ultimate" $25 plan is billed monthly. If you pay the entire year in advance on the $7 or $25 plan, they give you a discount (10%), which is a standard practice for web hosting services (many advertise the lower price as their "monthly" rate).

It seems that the best use for the $3 package would be hosting for band pics, gig info, bios and other promotional pages, with a link to a service like mp3.com for the music itself (a fairly common way of doing things). Assuming that's what you use it for, it isn't a bad deal.

Shakes - I noticed the "Music" link at http://www.codyyoung.com brings up a static image page and a window with your mp3.com page. Did phpwebhosting.com require you to move your files?
 
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ok, look, you've gone from $3/mo the $25/mo... i don't think you see what im getting at. people here who record 1 or 2 songs in half a year ask where they can put it up... $2/month isn't that bad, and if they are getting 2.5Gb a month, then damn thats a lot of downloads. If you are trying to tell me you get that many downloads a month, then you gotta be pretty large local fixture or something. im talking just shits and giggles space. just like someone who buys an SM57 for life instead of a U87.
 
Hehe no not at all I just found out how to do popups and was having fun with um, I have a wackload of mp3s loaded up there. It saved me from having to do another page of my site. Php is a very good reliable host and I have seriously done some major transfering. I had a 45 movie on there that was about 1 Gig that some of my family downloaded now thats huge. The only rules they have are no porn sites and no Warez other than that it truely is unlimited. I have about 250 megs of files on my site just as a backup. They start you out with 150 megs of space and if you need more just request it, I told them I wanted more and they said they upped it to 500 megs. The fine print is all bold print there no suprises. Unless your doing something your not suposed to be doing like running a huge porn movie site or have a site full of DIVX movies that TONs of people are downloading this host is by FAR the best bang for your buck.
 
Kristian thats why I mentioned phpwebhosting for 9 bucks a month they could have a ton of space and a full featured webhost. For 9 bucks I still think that falls in that range.
 
"Q. You say that transfer is unmetered, but is there any limit to the amount I can use?

A. Though we do not have any pre-set limits, you will not be allowed to and/or over five GB of bandwidth/month. If you use more than this only occasionally, then that is fine. Sites hosting illegal files, porn, warez, file archives or other "download-only" sites are not accepted. "

1)two things that come go mind.. i know Gb is gigabyte, and that Gbit is gigabit. but i don't know what GB is. i wouldn't be surprised if it was Gbit, therefore actually only 5Gbit = 625Mb.

2)at $3 you get 2.5Gb, and assuming it says 5Gb for phpwebhosting at $9, you have less bandwidth/buck :)

happy webhosting, its all tossups, $3 is pennies really at the end of a year compared to $10. But true, for a larger site phpwebhosting is better. For someone who wants space fo 1 or 2 mp3s that 25 people will download, $3 = better.
 
For that yeah if your only gonna have like 3 and not many downloads that is a cool deal. But for others its easy to load up space on the web and for that phpwebhosting truely rocks. Hell I have some projects backed up on there the whole damn project folder hehe. (Helps to have cable) As a matter of fact I have a friend with a PARIS studio and being able to trade wave files like this has been awesome. Anyway since I saw the topic of the post I thought I would throw in a testamonial from a hardcore user of phpwebhosting.
 
An ounce of prevention...

kristian said:
ok, look, you've gone from $3/mo the $25/mo... i don't think you see what im getting at. people here who record 1 or 2 songs in half a year ask where they can put it up... $2/month isn't that bad, and if they are getting 2.5Gb a month, then damn thats a lot of downloads.
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No, kristian, I responded to exactly what you were getting at. Your post topic and first post said, and I quote:

Originally posted by kristian
people who need mp3 storage

If you are stick of mp3.com and all copycat "free" storage places i just found a great place. http://www.digitalspace.net you can get 10Mb of storage for $3/month. You have to register a domain seperately, but you can have whatever domain you want then have your mp3s. I think its a pretty good deal for simple space like that.
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So if Lagoona got sick of their mp3 account... see? mp3.com may be irritating to some, but they allow you to upload as many songs as you want, something you obviously can not do with a $3, 10MB, 2.5GB transfer account. Period.

If you are trying to tell me you get that many downloads a month, then you gotta be pretty large local fixture or something.
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I'm not trying to tell you that you do or don't, just pointing out an apparently overlooked limitation of the account and giving some general advice on choosing a web host. That's all.

im talking just shits and giggles space. just like someone who buys an SM57 for life instead of a U87.
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And for that use, with only one or two mp3s at a time and not much demand, you're right, it's fine. If you had stated that initially, it would have saved me a good deal of time, thought and typing.

Originally posted by ShakesTheClown
Kristian thats why I mentioned phpwebhosting for 9 bucks a month they could have a ton of space and a full featured webhost.
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Exactly.

Originally posted by kristian
"Though we do not have any pre-set limits, you will not be allowed to and/or over five GB of bandwidth/month."

1)two things that come go mind.. i know Gb is gigabyte, and that Gbit is gigabit. but i don't know what GB is. i wouldn't be surprised if it was Gbit, therefore actually only 5Gbit = 625Mb.
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No, kristian, "GB" is a common abbreviation for Gigabyte, in the same way that "MB" is a common abbreviation for Megabyte.

Shakes - Ah... gotcha. :) I thought that your collection of mp3s may have fallen under phpwebhosting.com's "file archive" policy, one of the things that they mention as an infraction.

Phpwebhosting.com looks very good, and you've said they have good tranfer times. Are there any down sides to the service, or problems you've had?
 
The only time they would give you crap is if you had just files on there with the main intent for MASSIVE downloading including programs movies, Warez basiclly illegal stuff anyway etc. I put some of my demos up on my site under the songwriting link so if anyone wants to see how fast the download is.
 
Gidge, the mp3 hosting on NoWhere is free, and always will be. It is also unlimited in both transfer, and size (if you got a gig of music, go ahead and upload!)

DOMAIN hosting means dick BTW, you can link a domain name to anything that has a static IP and directory structure. If you own a domain, you can link it to any address no matter how long and wacky. DNS registration has NOTHING to do with the hosting company, other than they will occasionally handle it for you. .COM, .NET, .ORG addresses are handled through Internic. And no matter what, cost about $35/USD a year to keep registered. (Companies who say they'll register your domain for free are bullshitting, you'll get a bill from Internic. Some who do it for a cut rate, actually purchase the domain for THEMSELVES. When you contract with them expires, they own it, and if your site is popular, can jack the price up into the thousands for you to get it back).

Other services, such as POP servers, FTP, telnet access, script hosting (such as CGI-BIN), streaming compatibility, AD FREE space, etc. are what are worth paying for. If they don't have such things, then do not pay.

W.
 
Dotster is only 14.95 per year for domain names and they don't own it ever. Just a little tid bit.
 
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