I offer co location services where the end user can either send a box or lease one. We would need to know some numbers on typical bandwidth usage though. Everyone charges for bandwidth usage, but it depends on how much. We scale the rate depending on what that bandwidth usage might be. http://www.shelbynet.com/ for more information.

John


>Hi all,
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>I'm looking for hosting for a .net application that's likely to be bandwidth and storage-intensive.
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>It's a database of medical records where copies of the records (scanned, stored in pdf format) are available to end-users (my client's clients).
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>Currently we're at 20GB of images (24,000 pdf's), and about 5GB of sql-server database and application. For security reasons (hipaa, sarbanes, homeland security, nsa, younameit), there's one computer running the app, another the database, and a third one hosts the images.
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>Right now they're adding between 500MB and 1GB worth of pdf's every WEEK (between 300 and 500 pdf's).
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>We are looking for a host that ties the fees only to storage and not to bandwidth as we have no way of predicting what the end-users' demand will be.
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>I have a feeling this will be a co-location deal as I believe my client has his own hardware sitting at his current hosting provider.
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>Thanks for any ideas!
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>alex