Depending on the size of your website and volume of business it can be a reasonable strategy to combine a regular website with galleries hosted on Smugmug.
Bandwidth and diskspace are unlimited on Smugmug, and at the pro level you can customize your galleries to match the design of your regular website. Two posts on one recommendation are one too many, but I think it's worth checking out. GS <http://georgesphotos.net> On 2/17/07, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bandwidth: Photos gobble up a lot of bandwidth and if you have a cool > photo up, you can get huge spikes. Most hosts these days offer a lot of > bandwidth, but checkout what it costs if you go over the max. A few > years ago I had a plan that offered 30 gigs of bandwidth (pretty good by > 2003 standards) but I got some good PR and had two months of 60 and then > 40 gigs of traffic. At $5 a gig for everything over the 30 gig limit - > that stung! My current plan offers 150 gigs a month, and I typically use > only 10% of that, so I figure there is an ample cushion. > > Disk Space: Figure out how much disk space you need and be sure to get a > plan that will cover it. That's obvious - but then find out how your web > host handles things like logs, email, etc. Logs can eat up tons of > space, and if you opt for webmail, that will take up space as well. > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
