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This is a drupal question asked by Mel55113 on 13 July 2007

I’m currently using RimuHosting.com to support several Drupal sites, both single installation and multi-site, under one VPS account. I’m very pleased with their performance, reliability, and support. However, like most VPS solutions storage space and bandwidth is much more limited (and expensive) than it is with the much more common shared hosting accounts provided by vendors like 1and1.com, et al.

Recently I uploaded several rather large WAV and MP3 files that were intended to be shared with a small audience. A “failure in communications” allowed a link to my site to be published on another site. Within two days my bandwidth usage was about 6 times the amount used in the previous month; fortunately we got the link removed before more people took advantage of it.

Now I’m wondering about using a low-cost shared hosting account, one with large storage space and bandwidth allowances, e.g., 1200 GB of space and 12,000 GB of bandwidth for $4.95/mo, simply to host large files. Thus mydomain.com would be hosted at Rimuhosting while data.mydomain.com would be at 1and1. FWIW, Rimuhosting has a very flexible nameserver where I actually have my domain records.

Two questions:

1. Does this seem feasible?

2. Does anyone know if it’s possible to configure Drupal (and or IMCE) so that the files directory is on another server?

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