How much bandwidth does a website need

[Scootin159]

I'm planning on starting a hardware review site, but how many GB/month of bandwidth will I need for a website? The hosting I was looking at (www.3-95.com) has a 5GB/month cap, will this be enough?

 

[Lars]

How many visitors do you expect? (Daily)
What will the average page size be?
...

 

[konichiwa]

# of hits per month * Size of each page = Bandwidth needed

Not much more we can help you with until you tell us that...are you expecting to make a huge review site? Or just a small one?

 

[RSI]

There's no point unless you've got something really good in store.

-RSI

 

[Blayze]

One of my friends runs a site on a 128k ISDN line and it works fine for what he does.

 

[JoeyJoeJoeJoe]

If you want a popular site just run a free pornography site.

 

[Russ]

5GB/month is plenty. Unless you're running an FTP site, it is unlikely that you will ever come anywhere near that bandwidth usage. If you do, you can always upgrade the package.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Scootin159]

<< 5GB/month is plenty. Unless you're running an FTP site, it is unlikely that you will ever come anywhere near that bandwidth usage. If you do, you can always upgrade the package.

Russ, NCNE >>



ok, but I just checked & it looks like most sites are ~500k including images. That would mean a maximum of 10,000 hits/month, right? Sounds good to me

 

[Lars]

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<< 5GB/month is plenty. Unless you're running an FTP site, it is unlikely that you will ever come anywhere near that bandwidth usage. If you do, you can always upgrade the package.

Russ, NCNE >>



ok, but I just checked & it looks like most sites are ~500k including images. That would mean a maximum of 10,000 hits/month, right? Sounds good to me >>



500K per page is a little bit too high. Most people are still on dialup.

 

[Scootin159]

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<< 5GB/month is plenty. Unless you're running an FTP site, it is unlikely that you will ever come anywhere near that bandwidth usage. If you do, you can always upgrade the package.

Russ, NCNE >>



ok, but I just checked & it looks like most sites are ~500k including images. That would mean a maximum of 10,000 hits/month, right? Sounds good to me >>



500K per page is a little bit too high. Most people are still on dialup. >>



Yeah, that was just the first page I tried (a little overloaded with ads). Every other site I've tried is more like 100-200k. I guess a main goal we should have is to have very few images (while still making it look good), or small images, on the main site.

 

[rootaxs]

Like everyone said, it depends. You can have one site that eats up gobs of bandwidth or multiple ones that hardly eats up anything. I've hosted over 150 unique domains and the average monthly throughput for the whole of year 2001 was 8 GB. The highest month was in January at 60 GB (One pro-consumer site had a big event for that month and had quite a lot to offer).

5GB/mo is quite a lot to start out with IMHO. Just upgrade when you need more

 

[Scootin159]

Ok, thanks guys. I'll just go with the basic 5GB/month for now, and if I need to in the future I gues I can always up it to 10GB/month for a whopping $4/month .