How much is 1500GB per month?

[CFster]

1500GB per month allowable traffic for a particular web host that I use.

Somebody put that in perspective for me. What would it take to use that kind of bandwidth. I sure never will.

What kind of sites use more than that?

 

[FallenHero]

anandtech.com uses more than that im sure...

 

[theslickvik]

Google uses a terabyte per day

 

[CFster]

I wonder how these web hosts can offer so much bandwidth (for not a lot of money)...

 

[Paulson]

I only have 40GB bandwidth with my current plan but I think I could push more than terrabyte once I get my site up running full steam...

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: CFster
I wonder how these web hosts can offer so much bandwidth (for not a lot of money)...

Overselling and a very detailed TOS. Many will limit you based on CPU usage, you won't ever get anywhere close to that.

Pushing 1500GB is quite a bit of processing and so most machines won't be able to push that much anyway. Unless you're just transferring large files, at that point most sites would definitely need multiple servers or some kind of load balancing.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: theslickvik
Google uses a terabyte per day

Thats it?

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
anandtech.com uses more than that im sure...

More than 1.5 terabytes per month? I doubt it highly.... its mostly text?

 

[Paulson]

I thought back in the day Jason said they had been pushing 3600 GB's per month....

And google definitely has to use more than a terrabyte every day!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Paulson
I thought back in the day Jason said they had been pushing 3600 GB's per month....

And google definitely has to use more than a terrabyte every day!

Their trackers use quite a bit too so keep that in mind.

 

[Staples]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak

Originally posted by: theslickvik
Google uses a terabyte per day

Thats it?

I'd imagine they use many many times said amount.

Probably a terabyte every few minutes is more likely their bandwidth usage.

 

[Taggart]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak

Originally posted by: theslickvik
Google uses a terabyte per day

Thats it?

 

[Vegitto]

Well, 1500 GB/month is about..

1500 GB/month :laugh:.

 

[Conky]

Video files... these will push you over the top in no time. hehe

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Video files... these will push you over the top in no time. hehe

I run ovechkinfans.com which is purely videos (5-10MB each) and got a couple uploaded per day. In a month, about 400GB was used. That was about 12k vid downloads per month along with some streaming vids (showcase stuff) and archived zips of them.

 

[fire400]

check this out..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte

"As of January 2006, the http://www.climateprediction.net distributed computing experiment which aims to run thousands of cycles of modelled climate change to predict future patterns is producing 2-3 petabytes of data. This project is conducted via the computing power of thousands of home users whose computers crunch numbers in their spare, 'idle' time."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte