How much is it to run my site?

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Apr1

Call me a cheap Asian, but I’m starting to think my hosting, NearlyFreeSpeech.Net, is overpriced. On their pricing chart, storage cost is one cent per MB per month. MySQL database is one cent per day.

Say if you have a WordPress running, with 30 MB of stuff, and assuming you have really (really) low bandwidth, that’ll be $14.6 a year.

You’d say, come on, $15 a year isn’t that much, but keep in mind that’s only 30 MB worth of stuff. Let me put it this way – I can store 8.11 GB (276% increase in storage) of stuff on Amazon S3 with the same amount of money; $10 more, I can have Flickr pro, with unlimited storage and bandwidth (∞ increase in storage).

Something to rant about…

On the other hand, Google’s CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) is looking promising. This AI-thing is happening sooner than I thought. Also, judging by her blog she created, she’s really into pandas (haha)