Wikipedia use a PowerDNS with Geobackend to serve clients from the closest server. I have a similar service running for my http://static.natalian.org site. I want it in order to serve large HTML5 video files efficiently between my servers. To set it up is quite easy. I setup A records like so: eu.static.natalian.org 88.198.3.35 us.static.natalian.org 67.205.62.95 … Read more
I just have to throw in my two cents: If you’re looking to “start a business” and are a programmer, go with a hosting provider. Less headaches, you have someone else to deal with the network and hardware issues. If you’re planning on hosting things for anyone other than yourself, DO NOT host it in … Read more
A cheap desktop? Let’s get into the math. 10 million requests. That breaks down to 416667 requests per hour. That breaks down to 6944 requests per minute. That breaks down to 116 requests per second. Double that (peak load) and we talk of a load a cheap quad core desktop can handle IF the queries … Read more
I tend to leave it at Slicehost’s default, 86,400 seconds (1 day). I drop it down to 10 minutes when I have a move pending and wait a day or two. edit: These days (2016) I tend to keep it low – ~5 minutes.
Dreamhost offers unlimited diskspace and bandwidth. However, if your website is a static site, you could try hosting off Amazon S3. At $0.15/GB/month for storage, it’s pretty cheap. The other pricing component is the bandwidth cost at $0.17/GB.