[Michael]

Hey Dazed, You can halve the cost of the servers with JBservers if you move all your band accounts to the cluster. Just use the main account to host the top section of the site then have ALL the artists on the cluster.

Cluster space is half the price of the main.

Means that if you have say 'green day', 'metallica' and 'the smiths' on your site. Their urls will be
c1.yoursite.com/green_day
c1.yoursite.com/metallica
c1.yoursite.com/the_smiths

instead of:
yoursite.com/green_day
yoursite.com/metallica
yoursite.com/the_smiths

but those url's will redirect anyhow.

http://www.jamroom.net/blogs/djmerlyn/What_in_the_world_is_a_Jamroom_cluster%3F

Quote:

1. The master server- all I would suggest running on the master server, is the Jamroom master. My suggestion would be to get the Cluster software immediately, and enable it as the default server so all artist profiles are created on the cluster, and also enable the converter on the cluster server.

Took me a while to realize the use of the cluster to save money like this.


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[Dazed]

ussher:

Hey Dazed, You can halve the cost of the servers with JBservers if you move all your band accounts to the cluster. Just use the main account to host the top section of the site then have ALL the artists on the cluster. Cluster space is half the price of the main. Means that if you have say 'green day', 'metallica' and 'the smiths' on your site. Their urls will be c1.yoursite.com/green_day c1.yoursite.com/metallica c1.yoursite.com/the_smiths instead of: yoursite.com/green_day yoursite.com/metallica yoursite.com/the_smiths but those url's will redirect anyhow. http://www.jamroom.net/blogs/djmerlyn/What_in_the_world_is_a_Jamroom_cluster%3F Quote: 1. The master server- all I would suggest running on the master server, is the Jamroom master. My suggestion would be to get the Cluster software immediately, and enable it as the default server so all artist profiles are created on the cluster, and also enable the converter on the cluster server. Took me a while to realize the use of the cluster to save money like this.

Hey Ussher!

Yeah this is how I am setup currently. I have the 150GB account on the cluster and I think the 16GB on the master. Tack on the shoutcast server and I am close to $200 a month and my site is growing. So I have to keep looking toward the future and my overhead.

[Michael]

Yeah wow that is a chunk of change. Hope its making you enough money to cover the server costs.


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[Dazed]

ussher:

Yeah wow that is a chunk of change. Hope its making you enough money to cover the server costs.

yeah the site pays for itself I just think 200 a month is kind of pricey.

[Brian]

Dazed:

ussher: Yeah wow that is a chunk of change. Hope its making you enough money to cover the server costs. yeah the site pays for itself I just think 200 a month is kind of pricey.

It's really the disk space that is the big cost in most hosting packages - hosting providers are typically using high-end server level drives in RAID 10, so it can cost quite a bit to deliver 200gigs (when if you think about a full backup + snapshots is going to be close to 500 gigs of RAID 10 space). The only alternative is cloud storage, but getting data in and out of the "cloud" can be a real performance killer.

- Brian


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