Hosting Questions
I am now at 80% of my 40 meg is free, so at some point I will need to buy more than the 40 meg that we get for our $40.00 Radio purchase, probably from http://store.weblogger.com/addOns since that is the only hosting option url I know of so far, so my first question is if anyone has created a directory of where there are alternative hosting options for Radio Weblogs and the pricing. Ideally I would like to keep the same url with just more than 40 meg.
My sister Susan has not yet started her own weblog. I told her about Radio, but because each of the music files that she has written, composed, and performed, that she wants to put on her site for people to download from her, take up a lot of disk space, 40 meg just does not cut it.
Her questions were one of the reasons I started my story on Blog Software. I feared that Radio 40 meg constraint might not be easy to resolve, and perhaps one of Radio's competitors hosting options more easy to figure out.
QUOTING Al's sister Susan
I’ve been told there are extra charges if your web site has more than the allotted number of visitors. Also, music files are about 3 meg each and then I’m not sure about software to play the files…I guess the user could be expected to have that on their machine? At any rate, I would need quite a bit more than 40 meg.
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I told her that I had never heard of any such thing as pricing based on numbers of visitors, but it does make sense that there is a relationship between a site's popularity and the bandwidth advisable.
I advised her that, in my opinion, software to play the music on her web site would be preferable so that people could sample what she had, and perhaps less hassle with what needs to be compatible for visitors. She is a school teacher doing this somewhat for recreation, giving friends and relatives copies of her music such as audio tapes to play in automobiles, which is mainly Modern Christian Music.
I warned her that it is possible that changes in laws due to Hollywood lobbyists may make it illegal for musicians to share their work on the Internet, or using audio tapes, but I do not think she believes me.
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