Re: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
Re: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
- Subject: Re: [Seriously OT]Mac.com 60 days and counting
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 22:32:46 -0400
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 08:59 PM, Jake MacMullin wrote:
For me - this is very much on topic. I have just started developing
cocoa apps. I love it and am a huge advocate. However, I have widely
promoted my first application with links to my homepage site and I have
been using my mac.com email in all my correspondence. I don't know
where to start in terms of moving my software on to another site - its
looking so difficult (how do I re-create the publicity, let my users
know of the new url?) that I'm considering paying for a .mac account.
However - recently I had my iTools account temporarily suspended
because there was too much traffic to my site - will the new non-free
.mac account suffer from these same restrictions? Who knows?
The new bandwidth limiting is about the same as the old. About 2-6
times the space of your iDisk dependent on the number of downloads in a
six hour period. It's closer to 6x for small files.
This is a place that Apple is failing badly. they're IN the server
service business, but don't operate in the appropriate mode for it (that
is, I pay XX dollars for XX mega of transfer). Instead it's this
complicated formula.
One solution to this is to get your apps included in the Software
portion of the iDisk that is shared amongst users.. true, its not
trivial, but it is possible.
Ultimately, bandwidth costs money. And I seriously can't see how
it can be made cheaper that Apple is trying now. For example.. I pay
$130/month for 1Gb of transfer per day, and a gig of disk space through
pair networks.. if I go over, I pay more..
Pair's most basic account is 9.95 per month.. 100mb of traffic,
100Mb of disk space, 10 mailboxes and telnet/ssh access... same price as
.Mac more or less. From what I've been told on the .Mac side, it seems
that .Mac offers more bandwidth, but less straightforward calculation.
The new Backup software (which is very cool BTW.. i wish it worked
with generic webdav though, so I could just keep all my machines synced
here), homepage, all the other good stuff.. This is a place where James
or others could kick in..
Oh.. and New Mac buyers should get .Mac for free, as a perk.
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