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So far, in shopping around, I'll be switching to KVC Hosting. It's headquartered in my home state, Oklahoma at Edmond 40 miles away from me. However, not sure if their servers are in Oklahoma. It offers a good deal at $2.99 a month for three years. Or only $1.89 a month if 100 mb of space will do. It uses SSD. It's a rather young company, but is BBB accredited with an A rating and good reviews. I am awaiting an email answer from their engineer on max number of FTP connections.
http://www.kvcwebhost.com/unlimitedhosting/unlimited-web-hosting.html
KVC's answer to my question on max number of FTP connections, which was probably less than crystal clear was, "In Unlimited V Hosting you have 100 ftp Accounts." FTP accounts = FTP connections?? If so, 100 sounds plenty.
Now, I get confused on this, but here's what I see,.... 100 accounts is not the same as 100 "concurrent connections from the same IP".... in other words, my Host, officially calls for "3 simultaneous connections of maximum 2 threads each" from the same IP... however, a call to support can get that security setting 'modified' unofficially. Now, my 'unofficial' is 5 with 2 threads each. This very well covers 4 pc's sending info to various domains on my account, + one or two FTP connections working on sites live on server.
What we're most interested in is the 'simultanouse' connections.... NOW... if the Internet Backbone is slow, a 'pileup' in with one of the main tiers, then my 'automatic' uploads may get rejected (rare) as "too many connections"... what that means is "from this IP"... not anybody else's attempts from another IP.
Weather PC is uploading:
WxFlash updates at 2 seconds (I think?). Saratoga template data at whatever. 3 Webcam stills at 1024x586 at 10 seconds. and about 5 other 'datas' as they 'are changed. There are only 2 programs involved.... "FLING" which uploads ALL the VWS generated data, in sequence, as it changes, (none uploads from VWS...).... and WEBCAM7 PRO which does the three cameras, in sequence at 10 seconds.
That PC will never have more than 2 concurrent connections, with single threads. BUT that is 80% of the data being uploaded.
PC 2 Uploads 2 webcam stills at 10 seconds. There is the "Third" possible concurrent connection.
Using SMART FTP for website maintenance, or one of the other 'FTP' programs, or local website design programs MAY result in an additional 4th connection.... usually it just causes a bit 'slower', barely noticeable delay. BUT during those 'internet backbone" delays, I begged a "6 connection" security exclusion, and they gave me 5....
The Last Internet Backbone backup was so bad, that LP DID suspend my account... The two day issue was so severe that I had been attempting 10+ connections a second! NOW... that sure sounds like a server attack, and I am quite grateful, in retrospect, that their security caught it! Yes, it took a few hours to resolve the account, but that was NOT the host's fault. Nor was it mine.... Both my platforms and the Host's were doing what they were supposed to do. The real issue was a certain main tier connector out of Chicago, which I won't mention, and their ancient CISCO routers. But the real culprit on that issue was VERIZON, which had "accidentally" copped the remaining IP4 Address capability of those older CISCOs. (They claim it was an 'accident').
Keep in mind, those connections are to the
Shared Server with the account "OurSpecialNet".... which has more than just "FrankfortWeather" and/or "TwinHollies" running on it!... There are other 'domains' on the same account which are also receiving FTP from this IP !!!!! So.... part of it is 'smart ftp'ing' by having few 'simultaneous' connections.... in other words, use something like 'Fling' that will up load them all
in sequence as fast as it can, but never concurrently. Just as WEBCAM 7 uploads the images sequentially, but never concurrently, as fast as it can.
My 5 camera streams are "NOT ftp'd"... just the stills. My WXRadio does not "FTP" Through my server,... it's accessed directly. Any uploads to CWOP, other 'servers' is NOT an FTP to my host... I think it might be easy to confuse that...
So... I would "normally" have been quite content with "3 concurrent at 2 thread" connections... until that unmentioned tier 1 company started fouling things up last year... but my Hosting company took that into account and gave me a 'margin for error' 'just in case'.... the "3 at 2" had worked fine for many years....
Now, that was long... and I won't apologize... and perhaps my "understanding" is incorrect in some areas, which I'm sure I'll be pounced on...
Just remember, uploads to Wunderweenies or CWOP, etc. DO NOT go through your host! Just your local IP !!!!
Mike
