European VPS hosting

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

Hope this quoting is clear, I'm not using my regular Email client.

"Hetz Ben Hamo" <hetzbh at gmail.com wrote:>
Hi Geoff,

You forgot to mention few things:

1. What is the MAX price that you're willing to pay?

hmmm.  Wel not a fortune.  I think we can probably get what we want for no 
more than about $40/month. We don't currently have a budget for this, so 
it'll be out of our pockets until we can get someone to fund the project.

2. Should it only be VPS? not a real server?

I'd expect a dedicated server will be out of or price range, and possibly 
overkill.

3. Have you considered Amazon EC2?

I hadn't, but I have now and dismissed it.  We are starting an Internet 
radio station, and the 24/7 uptime for the cheapest EC2 instance hosted in 
Europe would be over $80/month.  Add to that that it would cost 
approximately $7.50 per month per listener to a 128kbps stream, and that 
this doesn't count web  traffic, uploading content to the server for 
playout, etc, and you can see that it doesn't scale very well.

Geoff.