ThePlanet.com : New Soon to be Customer: Orbital Grooves Radio

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This web hosting discussion started by Shouden on 09 October 2004

My name is Max Rathbone, I am founder of Orbital Grooves Radio. We have nearly 500 DJs from around the world, playing LIVE music 24.7. I’ve been looking to get a dedicated server for my radio station for some time. After investigating about 10 companies, I believe I will be settling onto EV1. The main reason is I heard from someone that they are very reliable, and they have been with them for 2+ years.

Before I take the plunge and purchase a server, I’d like to lay down a couple #’s and ask some of you other customer’s if you forsee any problems.

We use up a maximum of 3Megabit per second throughput on our bandwidth with a monthly total of under 300GB transfer. Due to the nature of audio streaming, the reliability and UpTime of the bandwidth is extremely important. Even a minute or two downtime and our listeners will notice.

Another question I have, the server our website is currently on is of the Ensim/Urchin variety…would it be possible to move over all the data so that when I get on the EV1 server the website statistics pick right up and I don’t loose any data????

Please let me know what you all think of my situation and if purchasing a server here is the right choice or not.

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