I’ve been considering lately that I’m paying too much for web hosting.

The main bandwidth consumer that I host is Internet streaming for several radio stations which prompted me to get a server in Canada with iWeb costing $104 USD per month.

Today I researched the cost of Icecast hosting with a shared hosting seller and found that I can get suitable hosting from about $8 USD per month.

I’ve also been using for some time a Virtual Private Server with Jumba who sells such accounts from $10 per month.

Seems pretty easy to make a decent dent in the monthly costs. I’ll probably end up buying 3 VPS accounts with Jumba and an Icecast account for about $25 per month. Which would amount to a saving of about $50 per month.

Then again I do also have a customer who buys a VPS off me and is looking to buy several more. So if they’re prepared to pay around $50 per month it may not be worthwhile. I’ll have to get in touch with this customer.

I guess this is something for me to work on.