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We are running out of bandwidth: Storynory has sucked its way through 77% of our 250 Gig allowance for March. So I emailed Bluehost and asked to buy another 100 gigs of transfer. You would think they would be pleased, but I received this extraordinary response:
“I wish I could give you better news. We lose around $25 a month with
the current bandwidth we give customers and we can’t afford to sell more at this time.
You have two options at this point. Seeing that you haven’t run out
yet, you need to limit access to your content so as not to run out.
Or you can keep going and when you run out of bandwidth your site will
do down for the remainder of the month.
In the future this may change, but at this time, we don’t sell
additional bandwidth.
If you have any other question, please let us know.
Thank you and have a nice day.”
We are not quite sure we like either of those options, so we are going a “third way.” I’m uploading all Storynory’s audio files onto The Internet Archive which offers free bandwidth so long as you keep your media free to all users. You can’t say fairer than that - but it’s time consuming doing the uploading. The download quality seems excellent though.
Another alternative, Jason Calacanis and AOL are offering free bandwidth to podcasters.
28. March 2006 at 16:41
[...] I still think that Bluehost offers excellent value, though I’m still reeling from being told by customer service that they can’t sell me any more bandwidth because they loose $25 per month on their package as it is. [...]