It has come to my attention that SEE uses a LOT of Revora bandwidth and thus causing a bit of a delicate problem...
(Sorry if this post is a bit long) This is what Network Leader Banshee said in "Hostees & Project Team" forums:
Hey everyone. Since Revora moved to the Fawkes server, we've got our bandwidth limited again, with 2000 gigabytes. The server won't go down if we bypass it, but we'll pay a considerable amount for each aditional gigabyte.
Since we moved to this datacenter, we knew that we would have problems with this bandwidth in less than a year, although Revora always used an avarage of 1400gb in that moment. In the last billing period (which ended on november 10th), we've reached our record, which was about 1976 gigabytes, near the limit. The vast majority of the traffic is usually used by major mod releases at CnC Guild and The 3rd Age. Other sites like PPM, CNCNZ and E-Studios also consume a considerable bandwidth. Last month, PPM alone used more than 300 gigabytes because of the C&C3 Community Summit movies. In this month (november), Special Extended Edition alone used more bandwidth than the whole CnC Guild (2nd place in our bandwidth usage, with 150gb in 11 days).
One of our objectives here is to support mods to get them released, so we are not saying with this that we won't host your mod installation files. We will, but we can't do it alone, specially if the mod is too much popular like S.E.E.. What does it mean? This means that we kindly ask you to find some mirrors in the community for your mod and divert part of the visitors to download with them. Contact us if you need help with that, but remember that FileFront (C&C Files, EAW Files and LoTR Files) and GameSpy/IGN (Planet CnC and Middle Earth Vault) are friendly places with Revora and its hosted mods.
For those wondering, we currently pay about 250 monthly to keep the server working. From these 250+, about 100+ come from Google Ads, and the rest comes from donations from members, hostees and network leaders. Aditional 1000 gb of bandwidth costs $100 monthly, which we can't afford at the moment. If you have any suggestions to improve the current situation, we'll appreciate.
So... if anyone knows of more suitable locations, let us know
Sûl recently uploaded to Mega Upload and Clone did something similar. When we have say... I dunno - a toal of 4-5 good and stable locations, I could list them all on the site =)
Mordor Slayer - feel free to start negociating with MEV or LotR Files
