Re: Internet Site

Hello everybody.

Not long ago, I decided to find animation job outside my country. I didn't know how industry works internationally. First thing which I guessed during a short time was that artist who wants to get animation job should somehow present his demo rheel - portfolio of his/her past work - to his would-be-employers. For this reason animators have their own websites where they post their works, so that anybody interested can view them.

Could you please help me to find out how much does it cost to create and maintain such a website. I already checked some of the prices offered by webhosts, and it seems that 1 gygabite costs appoximately 10$/month.
Also I contacted my ISP, who said that 10 megabites are free for the customers, and above this each megabite costs 1$ per month, which means that 1 gigabite costs appr. 1,000$ per month. I told them that the prices which I obtained from International webhosts were much lower, but the response from my ISP was that the upload or download speed of international webhosts are very low, e.g. that it would take about 6-8 hours to upload 10 mgb of data.

Could anybody who is familiar with these matters help me to find out if what my ISP said is true, and how much does it cost to have 1 gigabite of good quality webspace.

Thank you in advance,

Juba