Webhost Rant

I don't think anything on the internet annoys me more than web-hosts: they give you enough bandwidth to serve your storage limit somewhere around two, five or ten times. Who, in their right mind, pays for 5Gb of space EVERY MONTH and gets only two full-exploration hits. I think the entire hosting industry is ridiculous. Even the hosting plans you get free with an e-mail account/internet provider/advertising offer more storage than even a small e-commerce site would use. These companies pretend that there is any point in giving anyone 50gb of storage... but make a complete MOCKERY of it, when they calculate the bandwidth. No one, in the UNIVERSE would sit and download a 50gb page. Fucking hell, I won't download images over 500k. Why won't they just fucking admit it? "For 7 dollars a month you can have 50mb of space and "don't crash the server" bandwidth. In the INCREDIBLE event that isn't enough... set up your own fucking server!"

It worries me that hosting companies stay in business. HOW DO THEY DO IT? Who, I mean, who, ever, is willing to pay over a hundred quid a year for something they use a less than a tenth of? My site is 3 megabytes. Bear in mind, it consists mostly of images, (the stuff that takes up loads of space). It costs me... 3c a month in storage, plus bandwidth charges... which I haven't even encountered yet. I could not, with HOURS of searching, find a paid, legitimate looking, host where I could set up my site for less than 7 dollars. So, I sat, and did the math... three cents... seven dollars... three cents... Hrm. After some consideration, I went with Nearly Free Speech.

Well, this is sounding like a shameless advertisement for Nearly Free Speech. What the heck. Nearly Free Speech is awesome.