iinet has given a rather large webspace increase from 30MB's to 1Gig, all broadband and dialup accounts have automagicly been updated.

We're pleased to announce we've increased the size of webspace for all of our broadband and dialup accounts.
The upsize will mean webspaces will make a massive jump in size from 30 MB to 1GB, and the best part?
You won't need to lift a finger or pay a cent - it's already sorted.

A new tool to keep an eye on webspace usage is being added in the comming days.
Update: Currently no set limit on monthly bandwidth, however if huge amounts are noticed you will be notified.(iinet support)
I'm sure most have their own space but is great for those who don't or want .more

They are also selling extra webspace, but at $10 per MB whos gonna get any!!???

If I was still on iinet, i'd rather have 30Mb and not have it count towards my quota.

do telstra cound users pages as quota usage? I think they might or was it just data between peers?

iinet has given a rather large webspace increase from 30MB's to 1Gig

Good I guess if you use it.

its a tarp

They are also selling extra webspace, but at $10 per MB whos gonna get any!!???

$10/mb/month?!?!?!?!

im a spasmo who cant read

last edited by Spook at 10:50:56 25/Oct/08

$10/mb/year

downloads from your webspace count towards your quota?

url?

I'm quite sure most ISPs count email and webspace towards your quota, otherwise that will be a massive file-sharing hole that people will exploit if it becomes known.

It would be piss easy to set up some scripts to automate file transfer over webspace.

kind of dongs though as you have no real control over how much dudes download from your space

R u srs Insom?? Downloads are counted towards your usage if YOU download from a customers iinet hosted page. It doesn't get counted towards their own usage.

A simpler way would be to say the iinet customer pages aren't counted as "Free zone".

Why do I see iinet the apple of the (Australian) ISP world?

iinet-to-iinet customer traffic isn't even in the freezone reso, for uploads or downloads

oooorlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

ya

kind of dongs though as you have no real control over how much dudes download from your space

hahaha. good one.

im being serial

Err Insom, what they are trying to tell you is that other people downloading from your iinet webspace doesn't incur a charge for you.

The charge referred to in the OP is if you are downloading files from your own webspace, that traffic counts towards your monthly quota.

that's nothing new though, i figured the OP gave it emphasis for some reason

at this point with iinet it actually wouldn't surprise me if they'd started counting 3rd party downloads from your webspace in your quota

R u srs Insom?? Downloads are counted towards your usage if YOU download from a customers iinet hosted page. It doesn't get counted towards their own usage.

I rang iinet yesterday on 131917 to check if $10/MB/year was a typo, its not apparently a typo and he also told me that everything downloaded from your webspace is counted to your monthly quota, further stating that this was the case previously with the 30~MB webspaces.

last edited by Fn at 01:02:13 26/Oct/08

everything (you) download from your webspace is counted to your monthly quota

Yes

Well done reso you're right :) Thats great news.
Rang iinet again and got the right story, updated OP.

Currently no set limit on monthly bandwidth, however if huge amounts are noticed you will be notified.(iinet support)

and then your internet shutdown

I'm quite sure most ISPs count email and webspace towards your quota, otherwise that will be a massive file-sharing hole that people will exploit if it becomes known.

It would be piss easy to set up some scripts to automate file transfer over webspace.

Here's what they should do - give people x mb of bandwidth from user-to-user/user-to-hosted webspace bandwidth allowance. Like 5-10gb or something. Then:

a) they'd save massive amounts of bandwidth as users just get stuff from within their own network
b) they'd not be smashing their own network by making it 'unlimited' (obviously if it was unlimited people would just whore it all the time). p2p connections are already (generally) throttled by upload speed and they could just rate cap their http server for personal web space.

That way they're saving money and offering a useful service for their customers. It might take some tweaking to find the right balance between not smashing their own network with too much local traffic but I reckon it's doable.

Obviously they'd be getting hit with legal stuff if idiots left stuff publicly up on their webpage, but that's a user problem, not their problem.

someone tell me why this wouldn't work ^

Because then they'd have to like, organize that s*** :O

I assume they expect users would downgrade their plans if they could get shizzle in free bandwidth zone's.
But would 5-10gb make that much difference?

Cool. Lets go find some iiNet webspaces to run up quotas/usage on.

Seriously, what kinda of a dumb system is this?

Because then they'd have to like, organize that s*** :O

I assume they expect users would downgrade their plans if they could get shizzle in free bandwidth zone's.
But would 5-10gb make that much difference?

Dude people still file request stuff on BigPond that's under 10mb because they want to save their bytez.

Dear Bigpond..

Please mirror the internet in its entireity..

Thankyou
Australian Internet users

ps Don't filter it you pansyies...