Comments on: Bi-weekly .Mac bandwidth reached, Journler download relocated

By: arglborps

arglborps — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:34:00 +0000

Just FYI
I’ve been using Lunarpages.com for hosting for years now. You pay 6.95US$/month and get 350GB of space on their server. And the bandwidth limit is only there theoretically, because they offer 3.5 TB (yes that’s a “T” in there) per month.

I’ve been running a popular podcast off that account and have never maxed out the bandwidth.
They also offer WordPress one-click install with their Fantastico script collection. Highly recommendable.

By: burnsrunner

burnsrunner — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:24:04 +0000

I don’t understand why apple would want to regulate it either. It is a great product.

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:55:44 +0000

I’ll chime in here as another willing to offer some amount of hosting for a mirror. Get in touch if you wind up wanting to go this route. A well-mirrored download is perhaps less control than you like, but it’s also some security for the availability of your app (which rocks, btw).

By: Elfenwald

Elfenwald — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:43:49 +0000

better late than never - just seen it.
If you like another mirror (or actually two, one US based, one in Germany) - give me a shout.

Can provide you with a subdomain and your own FTP account - so no prob for the control freak
Its the least I can do for this project.

Thanks for your work, mate - and keep it up!

By: souldressing

souldressing — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:21:15 +0000

If you need more bandwidth, let me know — I’d be happy to mirror for you. You put out a great product, and I feel that you deserve more support.

By: stylograph

stylograph — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:17:14 +0000

contact me if you want some hosting for your downloads files only

By: abhik

abhik — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:42:32 +0000

Why not use something like pages.google.com (AFAIK, they haven’t specified a max bandwidth usage) or Amazon’s S3.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:57:22 +0000

I can get why Apple would need to regulate it though. I don’t know how much serious bandwidth costs, but Apple must have a huge number of .Mac users which must require a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. 125GB is a lot, 250 for the month. More than anything I’m surprised I even reach the limit. It’s the second time it’s happened.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:54:40 +0000

A torrent isn’t a bad idea, but I’m a bit of a control freak and would be wary of releasing an update on a network where the download could be manipulated and users get the wrong file. Maybe it’s possible to do a checksum on it, but users could still just search for “journler update” and get something else instead of using the provided torrent. Seems risky.

By: sjt

sjt — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:37:45 +0000

It is really unfortunate that Apple doesn’t make some sort of exception for people like yourself who are providing everyone exceptional reasons for using Apple products!