Every hosting company now seems to offer massive bandwidth allowances or even unlimited (well unlimited until you read they terms and conditions) but did you know for just normal surfing you don’t really need that much. I ran a couple of little tests and the results are quite interesting
- Listening to the BBC iPlayer for 30 minutes is around 33 mb
- Watching a 30 minute tv show on the BBC iPlayer in normal definition around 120mb
- Listening to online radio (40kps) for 30 minutes 10mb
- Doing a google search 0.11mb
- Light surfing, I chose to read the news on the BBC site, check the sports results and the weather for the weekend during my lunch break for 10 minutes rounded up a little came to a grand total of 3mb (for for 30 minutes that’s around 9mb).
Now for all you youtubers out there,
- A 2.18 minute video in standard definition is 16.17mb, lets call that 8mb a minute (excluding searching for the funny clip of the panda sneezing or a cat doing something funny.
- A 2.18 minute video in HD or 1080p was 63.01mb or around 31.5mb a minute.
Both tests done using the clip of Lady Java from previous post.
So what’s the point of this post, well basically I wanted to share, but mainly when choosing your Internet package don’t just look at the big flashy numbers. Unless you live next door to the telephone exchange you will not get more than about 15Mbit/s, and unless you stream a lot of media or download a lot of movies then you don’t need massive bandwidth.
Happy and safe surfing.
Well I an sat here watching my car get a well deserved clean and thought I would get I new iPhone set up for some mobile blogging. The first challenge was remembering all the credentials, nowadays you always click the remember me button, but eventually I made my way in.
New iPhone, yes I have retired my old 3G and vocative have won me back with a pretty good deal so I moved on to the iPhone4. If your wondering yes it does have the grip of death problem, but I will get my free case from apple in a couple of months, till then I will use my old cover to try and reduce the effects.
Well my car is ready so I will sign off now
Just tried a new blend of coffee, I did not have time to make it out to waitrose for my normal bags of Java so nipped into waitrose for some and pick up a couple of bags of “Sumatra Mandheling”. Special Offer 2 bags for £4.50. I have been presently surprised by it, Deep dark and rich this is a lovely blend of coffee.
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1279550052691
I don’d know how long the offer is on for but I can highly recommend it even when the offer finishes.
So here I am sat in the hotel room with nothing to do, the net access is not fast enough to stream TV I am waiting for the iplayer to download something good. My mind turns to works past and present, being bored I found my self comparing hosting packages fro various different hosting companies in the UK. It is interesting to see how such a simple idea has been implemented in in such different and diverse ways, the first time I remember seeing application installers for many different open source applications was in cPanel, clunky old version of the applications but I think they were the first. Since then we have seen the hosting industry embrace this concept to a greater or lesser extent.
If we look at just the main UK hosting companies that offer real 1-click installers you get quite a small list of the companies I know best
| * | 123-reg.co.uk | Names.co.uk | webfusion.co.uk |
| # Applications | 19 | 100 + | 19 |
| First Package with apps | Plus | Starter | Professional |
| Cost per year | £59.88 | £47.88 | £107.40 |
Save £60 a year, host with names.co.uk
Not many hosting companies manage to win a major independent award 3 times in a row, most have to buy them from review sites, however Namesco have won the ISPA Best Shared Web Hosting award 3 years in a row for their excellent hosting and fantastic support.
Last week saw Namesco add over 100 One-Click open source applications to their hosting packages, and they have also supercharged their hosting packages make them bigger, better and even cheaper than before.
The runners up in the ISPA’s were:
- 123-reg.co.uk
- Netcetera.co.uk
- NewNet.co.uk
- Webfusion.co.uk
All the awards and nominations can be seen at http://www.ispaawards.org.uk/
After waiting for over a month for the incompetent camerabox.co.uk to deliver my new lens I finally gave up. Ordered it from warehouseexpress.com/ 2 oclock yesterday, and had it by lunch time today. The moral here….. Dont use Camerabox.co.uk
Sorry about the quality of the pictures, the iPhone is not the best camera phone on the market.
Namesco, one of the UK’s biggest hosting providers has added over 100 One-Click applications to their Linux shared hosting packages. All customers on the Linux hosting packages get to use these free of charge.
From the Names.co.uk website “With all our NEW web hosting plans you will be able to choose from over 100 fantastic 1-Click Install web scripts including blogs, forums, CMS, shopping carts and many more and with new additions being added to the library all the time, you will always have the most popular and best scripts available. Each script comes with user reviews, helping you choose the one that best fits your needs and any script can be easily installed in just 1 click, so you can be up and running in a matter of minutes.”
If your on one of their older packages don’t worry, looks like their upgrading all the old hosting packages to the latest versions free of charge.
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