Suggestion Re: Bandwidth And New Accounts

[whoisjohngalt]

New member here. So far I'm very pleased with TCH. Thanks for all your hard work.

 

I have a suggestion. One thing that concerns me is the process of migrating a site from an existing host to TCH. In the process of migrating old content to TCH's servers, I have utilized an incredible amount of my monthly bandwidth allocation. Would it be possible for TCH to not count bandwidth utilization until perhaps the second week of membership? Or perhaps allocate some pre-defined extra amount for the first month?

 

Let's assume a user signs up for an account that has the exact amount of disk space he/she needs to host his/her existing site. To migrate his/her site would use up an amount at least equal to his/her allocated disk space. Seeing as how this would be a one-time upload specific to the migration process, it seems a bit extreme to charge this against the user's monthly bandwidth allocation.

 

The only drawback to this I could see would be potential abuse by users signing up for TCH accounts counting on this extra bandwidth for the first month, then signing up for another account the following month, etc.

 

Any thoughts?

[MikeJ]

All of the standard webhosting plans include disk space that is roughly 5-7% of your monthly bandwidth usage, so unless you are uploading your site multiple times, then in most cases your bandwidth usage for uploading the site shouldn't be too significant of an issue.

 

Couple that with the fact that bandwidth usage is based on the calendar month, unless you signup on the 1st of the month, you will likely only be accumulating bandwidth usage for a partial month when you first signup.

 

I'm moving this to site maintenance for better organization.

Edited March 11, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ

[whoisjohngalt]

All of the standard webhosting plans include disk space that is roughly 5-7% of your monthly bandwidth usage, so unless you are uploading your site multiple times, then in most cases your bandwidth usage for uploading the site shouldn't be too significant of an issue.

 

Couple that with the fact that bandwidth usage is based on the calendar month, unless you signup on the 1st of the month, you will likely only be accumulating bandwidth usage for a partial month when you first signup.

Thanks so much for your prompt and courteous reply!

 

I understand all of that. I know it's such a little thing to be concerned about, but 7% of my bandwidth is 7% of my bandwidth.