Hosting [Suggestions?]

I've got a small group of followers who want me to make them a little phpbb forum and I see some hosts that offer 5-10GB of storage. I've had some issues with databases crashing, but I've been pondering using some of the storage (the avatars and such are very generous as far as storage and bandwidth go) for sharing anime goodness.

I'm looking to see if anyone has any quality hosts who could help me to offer my files. Currently, I'd be looking at 20GB of storage with bandwidth that would basically only be used from downloads of said anime. Thanksies!

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Hmm. Sounds decent. Perhaps I saw that site here on GFF, but it does sound familar. Discounts are great! I'll check 'em out tonight.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm not running 4chan's boards. In fact, we have (had before my other DB crash) a forum dedicated to browser-crashing images, HTML coding, [youtube] video, and plenty of other ways to waste and destroy the space we had (We used very little though). It's unimportant. It's basically a testing forum (for a GFF comparison). But as far as feeding the masses of GFF free anime, I guess you guys are all for having me choose Dreamlol as my hosting service. Now, to wait for my Paypal account transaction.

EDIT: Roph, I'll use you as my reference since you posted first.

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Oh, I've been told after a year, they jack your prices to rediculous amounts. Confirm/deny?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

You can pretty much disregard Dreamhost's less than stellar track record if all you're using it for is to transfer anime files -- and no other host offers a monthly transfer of 1 TB for such a low price. Their bandwidth is great too, I've had reports of people getting over 1.2 megabytes per second (with multiple connections).

So getting 200KB/sec for FTP is normal?

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Originally Posted by Bigblah

Sounds like it (I get around 300 kB/sec using university bandwidth). Any higher requires multiple connections.

Well so far, so good. I did have to flush my DNS cache for the site earlier...but it seems to be working alright. I'll return the favor soon enough with my own FTP thread in My Stuff. Thanks again, Roph for the UBER discount! <3

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by RushJet1

i use godaddy. there are some pros and cons.

pros:

1. it's cheap, decent hosting- lots of space and bandwidth
2. with the linux account, you get 5 ftp accounts and with either you get 10 subdomains

cons:

1. tech support generally sucks hard. there are apparently a few smart people in there, but it takes a LOT of tries to get the right one.
2. transfer speeds are not super-high. 100-150KBPS? fine for me, but maybe not for hosting video files.

I appreciate the offer, but it seems that Dream does that and more. I'd imagine with some complexities like this stuff, tech support is going to be difficult. I'll just whine to Blah if I have any more problems. Thanks everyone!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?