$2500 Web Hosting Bill - My school screwed over!

As with most public school systems, Internet is provided by a state funded organization. They also usually provide free unmetered bandwidth and disk space for website hosting. Not a bad deal!

Ok, here's where the problem starts. Our webmaster LOVES to take photos... we hit the 50,000 photo since Aug. 2005 just a few weeks ago We have 50,000+ photos on the website. Each photo is ~400K in size (sized down from about 4 megabytes a piece!) and that adds up! Plus we have TONS of pages... I think maybe ~10,000 pages (give or take).

Today, I heard that our school has racked up a bill for $2500 and that our service provider is charging web space at $100 per GIGABYTE.

This has District Technology ticked off, the Board of Ed is probably ticked, and our webmaster is also ticked.

NO webhost (except ours) would charge $100 PER GIG! On a web host I pay for, I pay less than $10 a month for 1.5 gigs of space!

Now to make this worse, imagine this. Astahost turns to paid hosting and charges members $100 per gig (just an example) and also makes it where you can't just pack up and leave Astahost. This is the situation we're in. We just can't launch a DNS, mail, and web server and be happy. We're stuck!

I hope you don't mind me picking on Astahost. It is a wonderful free service (the best, really!) and I just needed a web host to use as an example

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That's insane dude. I've never heard of $100 for a GIG !!! For that price a month you could probably maintain a moderate ranged server itself. What crap !! You should take in contributions from everyone and hire out a sniper to blow out the whole ISPs top $hits

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wow, you guys are really in deep water, now, I don't know about your public school system, but here in Toronto, we don't offer free web hosting off school servers.

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My high school had policies against pretty much everything so they wouldn't have let us have school hosted sites, but my university has them as long as they follow guidelines and I can imagine they'd be screwed if they got stuck in a deal like that. Then again they handle their own storage, but thats not the point. $100 a gig is freaking retarded... I say just break in and steal all their servers... or do the sniper idea thing... either works...

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I'm still trying to contemplate the idea of charging someone $100 per gig, can't you switch ISP if so?

xboxrulz

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Didn't you see the prices when you actually acquired the webhosting? Golden rule with buying whatever is to read the fine print (especially the part with the prices).

Even if $100 is unreasonable, if it was stated on the contract or whatever agreement paper and you still signed it. It's your own fault :|.

(Still wondering if the costs weren't for something else)...

Now...

If you would just give us a name of that webhost?

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Damn how can they doing that. 100 per gig someones out of their mind

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