Why You Need to Be Careful About Shared Hosting

So, MacCast, one of the more popular podcasts got knocked out by GoDaddy for using too many processor cycles.

This highlights the point about shared server space - it's not a good idea for popular items, and a horrible one for podcasting or multimedia hosting.

In his "MacCast is not gone, just knocked down" post, he was complaining about a very expensive $100/month. That is relatively nothing and is a mere minimum of the cost of doing business properly with this kind of material to avoid downtime issues if you're popular. I'm surprised they're letting him get off that cheap.

This will continue to plague amateur podcasters until their perceived price links up to the actual in regards to bandwidth, storage space, and processing power.

And in corporate environments, a note to the wise on the bandwidth side - if your company is sharing a 100mb connection to your server and your network, the last thing you want to do is host media on your server. If media is coming out at 1mb per sec, just fifty simultaneous users and your network is at half speed - a real problem if you're serving up applications. In fact, just 10 could make for a sticky wicket. And the cost of avoiding these problems is so little, that it's silly not to keep them separate.

p.s.- I like maccast. And GoDaddy did not act professionally by not warning him; they should of sent him a note saying "hey, this is happening, we need to do this." But, the lesson should be learned for podcast/netcasters that this costs money, and the barriers to entry even at $50 or $100 a month are ridiculously low compared to the past.

I remember the days not so long ago where you couldn't get going for less than a few hundred thousand dollars.