[TriLUG] Hosting questions

[Greg Brown]

Too bad I don't have my wilson-based hosting company up and running.. I
could get you fairly inexpensive 30meg/30meg service.  :(

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Charles Fischer <fischer at 4pi.com> wrote:

> Customer->Server.  I was looking at it from my point of view.
>
> At 09:44 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote:
> >One point of clarification:
> >
> >When you say "download," do you actually mean download
> >(server->customer) or upload (customer->server)?  If you are in the
> >printing business, I would expect you to be receiving the high-res
> >images, not sending them...?  Depending on your hosting solution,
> >bandwidth-usage terms may be asymmetric.
> >
> >HTH,
> >~B
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> >Behalf Of Charles Fischer
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:41 AM
> >To: trilug at trilug.org
> >Subject: [TriLUG] Hosting questions
> >
> >I am looking for some advice.  I am starting a new company and I am
> >looking for a web hosting site and hopefully a web site
> >template.  The company will be printing images onto hard surfaces.
> >
> >To do that I need a big pipe for transfer of large (up to 50MB)
> >images.  I do not expect the daily total to be very large, maybe
> >1-2GB a day.  Following are the steps a customer would take:
> >
> >1)  Select a shape for printing.  There will be about 10 shapes to
> >start, and up to 50 sometime in the future.
> >2)  Download a high resolution image.
> >3)  After the image is downloaded, it will be down sampled to about
> >72 pixels per inch and displayed over the selected selected shape.
> >4)  The user adjusts the size and position of the down sampled image
> >over the shape.  I expect to write this in C and interface to Java.
> >5)  After the customer positions the image, the web application will
> >prompt for address and payment information.
> >6)  Have the web application check the credit card information and
> >inform the customer of success or a problem.
> >
> >The web site will also have examples of finished products, contact
> >information, order tracking and other common information.
> >
> >So any suggestion of hosts, HTML templates, banks and whatever I have
> >forgotten?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Charles Fischer
> >
> >PS, I like local providers.
> >
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