Thanks,

To go back to the original subject, I'll probably upgrade the database in the end of this week. I think that the change will be immediate, but to be sure I'll lock the site (read-only) while doing that change. That lock should only be for few minutes.

I also buy cheap movies for fun and posting. I just bought a 50 movie pack with some of the worse movies I have ever seen (Name of pack = Nightmare Worlds). Will be posting some soon.

That's what I do, 5 DVD's for 5 Euro's...Very bad movies, but it's fun!

I even bought (cheap) DVDs mostly to make screenshots.
e.g. http://www.imcdb.org/movie_250390-A-Friday-Night-Date.html which was not bought for the quality of the movie...

A few...? I have bought tens of dvds based on the screenshots...

Definitely advertising. There's a few movies that I've rented or bought based on the screenshots I've seen here.

Actually the site relies on "fair use" concept, which exists in USA but not in Belgium/France/Switzerland. So legally OVH (France) is not so different. To be "more legal" the site should be hosted in USA, under the name of a US citizen. Well, I doubt that it would change much, I just hope that no movie company will attack the site with stupid argument, as the site makes more "advertising" for the movies than something else.

Sounds like staying with OVH is the best solution - particularly if we are liable to run into copyright law issues. We do post a lot of stuff that the american movie industry would probably frown at. Thanks Antp for all your work.

Some news about that. Two solutions :
- move to a new host, cheaper and with higher limits (and that has a good reputation) : www.infomaniak.ch (120 € inc.VAT / year instead of about 230 € for the current one)
- use the new option that OVH added: for 5 € exc.VAT per month we can have a limit of 100 MB instead of 50 MB.

I am not sure that the site will run fine on Infomaniak, maybe it will be too heavy to handle for their servers (as it is cheaper they must put more site per server I guess). And the Swiss laws are maybe less tolerant for the IMCDb contents (I asked them, but they could not give a precise anwser yet )

For that reason, and for facility reason to not have to move the site quickly this month, I'll probably take the solution of staying at OVH for at least few months. Google Ads earnings are high enough to pay that anyway.

Anyway the next step within few years will be a dedicated server if the site continue to grow like that.