Popular website and services have special needs. A standard web hosting package from any provider can be a killer. Things like Bandwidth and Storage can start becoming a major constraint. CDN or Content Delivery Network might sound like a good idea however some points to note for CDN

• The costs are prohibitive for low revenue services or growing websites.

• Content Delivery Networks are also an overkill in most cases.

• The technology requires a good understanding and if your site is not properly implemented it can be subjected to attacks which will drive the cost up as you pay for every single resource on usage basis.

• Most CDN also use proprietary technology which requires you to modify or change your technology to suit the architecture of the CDN provider you are using. This can be costly and hard to undo if you decide to switch CDN providers. It is almost as good as a lock in.

• Businesses prefer Fixed cost so they can price and forecast revenue as well as possible. CDN due to their very nature are always variable cost. If fixed cost is provided it is well too high to make it unreasonable. 

If you are looking for Bandwidth Hosting or Storage Hosting you have come to the right place. We acquire large amounts of cheap bandwidth an storage for you with no strings attached. When we say UNMETERED it is therefore unlimited without any conditions. Fixed cost is preferred by any business over variable cost of CDN which you do not even have need for yet.

Lets take an example of Amazon AWS for bandwidth hosting. We have a 100MB file which we need to serve 100,000 times every month so total data transferred in 10TB. If you use Amazon AWS and we ignore the charges for uploading the 100MB file once and storage charge. Then our cost per month is as follows:

Amazon AWS Monthly Cost calculation *
Data Transfer
$0.150 per GB – first 10TB / month data transfer out
> 10,000 (1TB = 1000GB)  * 0.150 =  US$ 1,500  PER MONTH

Requests
$0.012 per 10,000 GET requests
> since we have a large file the GET request cost is small and hence ignored.
What if the file is 1MB or 50 KB (images) and you have a 1 million hits a month. Yes GET request is PER HIT to the file on top of transfer.

 * source 
Other charges are applicable like Storage, Instance in Amazon which we did not take into account for simplicity.

AltPlayer RPS (Resource Planning Service) Monthly Cost
Now we compare to our not so fast and not CDN resource but to an average site visitor there is no perceivable  difference.

Data Transfer In or Out
Fixed US$ 500 / Month
Unlimited Transfer.
Space Allocated for Files: 100GB.
Connection: 100Mbit
FULLY MANAGED. With one time assistance in publishing files to our servers or setting up software of your choice.

 MORE THAN 300% cost saving on a low scale. The more you use the more you save as compared to CDN.

We have built some standard packages which are used for our client's large traffic websites like File Sharing, File Hosting, Video and Audio hosting, Image Sharing, Email Servers etc. Our packages deliver more power and resources through our resource planning. Which is why

However we can tune the packages to your exact needs. For e.g. Bandwidth may be a major concern if you have very high traffic and few media files are being served thousands of time everyday. Space is not a problem for you but bandwidth is.

We also guide you so in future you can move to CDN services with ease if you need to.

Take a look at our Bandwidth Hosting and Storage Hosting plans here

For any questions or comments feel free to drop us a message.