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Does anyone know anything about high-bandwidth hosting ?

The exact amount I might need in any month will vary (depending on user demand) from just a couple of Gb all the way up to maybe 4000Gb !

That massively over any normal web hosting package that I know about. Also I don't want the connection to either choke, or the company to start charging $4 per excess Gb ... (ie $16,000 / month)

I really don't know where to start with this. I've contacted a couple of standard hosting places but they haven't been much help.

But there must be some way to handle this. I mean, who hosted "the star wars kid" video for example ? That must have done a few thousand Gb in a month...

Chances are I'd only do maybe 10 or 20Gb a month, but it could suddenly surge to a few hundred or a few thousand - that's what makes it so hard....

Any thoughts ?

I am not shure about how this works (and much less about Australian conditions), but I believe here in Denmark, some webhosts have direct lines to the big national net provider. I think it is called core lines, and that it has huge bandwiths. If all else fails, maybe it would be an idea to contact the telephone company (or whoever is the provider in Australia), and ask them about such a line, or the option to have them maintain a server for you in house. It will likely not be cheap, but maybe less expensive??

Yeah, if you are going to get to 4000Gb a month, it might be cheaper to just get a line from the Telco and host it yourself. It's alot of work, tho, but you might be able to make up your costs a bit by offering some hosting yourself, if you have spare bandwidth left.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've contacted my ISP who is looking into the problem

Otherwise it seems an unmetered 20Mbps server might be the answer - starts at $200/month though.... I can just imagine doing !Gb for a couple of months while paying that

I think I need to get creative and think of ways to get other sites to host the material.... hmmm