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For Hostgator FAQ or any questions about hostgator webhosting or hostgator sales read this query posted by JustAsking on 01 June 2008

Currently i rent a website from another host and i am unsatisfied about that.

The site i am talking about is a gamesite for all Unreal series, with all the downloads that come with it.
The site itself including downloads takes up some 200 gigabyte of data, from which the site itself including pictures and stuff takes up some 20 gigabyte and the remaining 180 gigabyte is purely downloads. Aside that i run several forums on the site.
Current bandwidth is about 300 gigabyte a month, but still rising each month. I kinda expect its possible the site might grow further and may go over the 1000 gigabyte of bandwith.
Obviously all files on the site are 100% legal and are maps, mods, patches, textures etc for Unreal, UT, UT2004 and UT3.
If i would go rent from HostGator it stays well withing the Hatchling Hostingplan for both space and bandwith.

At this moment my hostingplan with that other company is 300 gig of space and 3000 gig of bandwith which is also far withing what i pay for. Still they complain about bandwidth and see me rather go than stay. On top of that, the site only contains 60 gigabyte of data because the hardrive where the site is sitting on is full. Which means i cannot even upload the remaining 140 gigabyte of data at all. Needless to say that i have had it with that company, specifically since they complained about my account and after that they raised those same accounts to even larger amount of space and bandwidth.

(they even raised the account (for new customers) to 1500 gig space and 15000 gig of bandwith, while they even aren’t capable of hosting a 200 gigabyte site.)

My question of course is, if i go rent from HostGator, will i at least get 200 gigabyte (lets say 300 to be on the safe side) of actual space and wont HostGator go complain if the downloads really would go topple 1000 gigabytes a month ?

Does that really is about the amount of files or is this about the amount of files adressed at any given moment ?

To sum up some statistics:

Downloadable files: 35000 (mostly zipfiles)
HTML: 20000 (Each page is a frameset made out of 4 html’s)
gif: 22000 (all the buttons on the site)

Downloadable files:
The zipfiles, are never replaced, at best new files are added. Which means those files are uploaded once and remain in place all the time.

Exception are some 24 larger zipfiles(aprox 200-300Mb each) that will be replaced each so much months, since they will contain the latest updates. Those are also the files that are responsible for the 90% of the bandwidth each month.

HTML files:
Each page is build from 4 htm files that contain, links, text, pictures and buttons(buttons use a javascript to highlight them)

GIF files:
Those are all the buttons sitting on the site.

Since i am still building on the site, new pages are added steadelly, but for the most part, pages that have been uploaded are done and there to stay and maybe get an update over time. Al together the current site has 80000 files, and mainly the webpages might go add another 50000 files to it.

But if i read ahead in the TOS, than the main problem with the inodes are the backups. And if that is the case, and its technically possible, i have absolute no problem at all if there are never backups being created for my site.

I always asume something can go wrong on the host’s end, after all we are all human, and machines can break down despite the best effords For that reason i always have 2 backups stored at my home, and at worse it will take me a couple a days to re-upload broken or damaged files. So if the inode limit is based on backup server stress, and no backups from my site is ever made, no-one ever will hear a complain from my side.

The only thing that is important for me is that the forums database are backud up properly, and that the only exception as far as i am concerned.

I know its alot, and unfortunatelly i am not a rich guy at all , and all dowloads are for free, so no money is comming in from that end. As said it all stays withing the offered hostingplan, except for the inodes. And i simply want to run a site about the Unreal games including all downloads that come with it, and a few forums.

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