Will 2 PW accounts solve my large content problem?

[Tourguy]

My travel site www.tourguy.net/ has tons of photos and growing, I expect I will need 2 accounts to accommodate my photos. I plan to put all html files, phpbb, and thumbnails in one account and apply for another PW account to just store my photos.

The problem is I have taken mearsures of anti-leeching of my images I learned here, and this will prevent account A from linking to the photos on account B. I do expect I will eventually used close to the limit of 500MB of 2 accounts. Right now, I am near the limit of 250MB and my bandwidth usage is a steady 3G, but if I finish all pages, I expect the bandwith to triple at least, but that will be distributed between 2 accounts.

I love the speed of Powweb, and given the fact that 75%+ of my readers are from the Pacific Asia, PW's location in L.A. seems ideal to reduce hops and the chance of being clogged somewhere...blah, blah.

I was thinking the only option is to move to a host with larger space allowance than PW and decent bandwidth as PW. I hate to leave because it's taken me a month to finalize on PW a year ago. It's really a pain to start hunting for another host.

What do I have to do to stay and meet my needs?

[Mechtech]

I am not sure, but you might be able to specify safe domains.. maybe i dont know heh

[(jj)]

Tourguy,

You can utilize 2 accounts as what you said, this would double your disk space and split your bandwidth usage.

When you consider what it would cost to find a hosting company that has 500Meg storage and more than 25 Gigs of bandwidth per package, you would most likely be paying much more than the $15.00 a month that you would here. Not to mention the hassle of moving everything to another host.

If nothing else, getting the second package/domain would give you time to make an unpressured decision.


And that is Just my "For What It's Worth"

[George]

Trust me. Is far better to have two accounts open with Powweb than to move to another provider. It's not only a problem of cost (you won't find another hosting provider with the prices of Powweb) but of quality of service and bandwith.
People like me that have found Powweb after dealing with other providers know the difference very well.
That's why I have two sites hosted with them. That gives me 50gb of monthly bandwith and a great quality of service.
As for the antileech, I'm not an expert but there must be some sort of fix in the .htaccess file to let another site share the graphics.

[Tourguy]

I have a habit of storing old version of programs I loved, like Yahoo Messenger, Free Crystal Ftp, Calypso Mail Client, etc., as I was thinking taking out those programs I stored on my space,,,I even found a 19MB+ Flash and many others, even some my favorite MP3s...I did this when I was still using my old Fujitsu laptop with 1.3G HD and now I have 40G on my new laptop, so I downloaded those stuff and then deleted them from my space.

Guess what I've got? I checked with OPS and I am using only 92MB, I am thrilled! I am sure I still have plenty of time before I use up the 250MB... I never thought those things I stored online accumulated so much over time...

For other sites I am considering setting up won't have the problems I have with this travel site which has lot of photos others might leech and steal my bandwidth. Those new sites are not photo oriented.

The only thing causing my hesitation was I can't "leech" my own photos on my own other account if I set one up. For now, I don't have to worry about it for a long time, if at all.

[stevel]

I should think it would be simple to modify the "anti-leech" .htaccess to allow referrers of your two domains. I can't tell you exactly how to do that, though.

The thing that bothers me about anti-leech controls is that, more and more, people are running firewall software that provides "browsing privacy", including masking of referrers when the source and target have different domains. I would think that this would trigger the anti-leech script and the user would not see the image, even though they really were browsing from your site.

[Tourguy]

Thanks for all inputs.

If I were happy to leave I wouldn't have bothered.

I advised my my first client (http://vegas168.com/) to be hosted here instead of using a resller package somewhere else.