What does "monthly in" & "monthly out" mean?

[zephyrprime]

There are these game ranking sites that rank game related sites. They list "monthly in" & "monthly out" in the stats for sites. What does that even mean? Does it refer to the number of voters or something?

http://wow.top100arena.com/

 

[pontifex]

There are these game ranking sites that rank game related sites. They list "monthly in" & "monthly out" in the stats for sites. What does that even mean? Does it refer to the number of voters or something?

can you post a link to what you are talking about?

 

[zephyrprime]

EG: http://wow.top100arena.com/

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

No idea, but would like to know how these places host these games.

I know some hosting 5,000 players plus (2 servers of 2,500 each). That's a good amount of hardware and bandwidth.

Just pulling out of my ass, but I guess 3kB/s per user. That's 11megs an hour. 264 megs a day, for about 8GB a month. Figure 2,000 continuous players and that's 16TB of bandwidth.

Edit: Wild ass guess at bandwidth running about $0.03 a GB. Around $500 a month unless I messed up a zero. Not all that expensive, but more than I'd shell out for free.

 

[zephyrprime]

Well, they can get some donations too. That might help a bit. Plus, some of them may sell money ingame for money. A business class internet connection does run a few hundred dollars for a fast connection.

 

[vrait]

It means the amount of people going from top100arena.com to the game's/server's website. In is to the games website, and out is the link back. Or the other way around. don't remember.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I know this sounds crazy, but if you look at their FAQ you'll see this:

Q. How are the sites ranked?
A. Ranking of pages are done according to the number of votes in by a site each month. A "vote" occurs when a person clicks on the Top100Arena voting link on a site's page, and then clicks on "OK" to vote. Anti-cheating measures are taken in order to ensure the lists remain free of cheaters.

 

[novasatori]

No idea, but would like to know how these places host these games.

I know some hosting 5,000 players plus (2 servers of 2,500 each). That's a good amount of hardware and bandwidth.

Just pulling out of my ass, but I guess 3kB/s per user. That's 11megs an hour. 264 megs a day, for about 8GB a month. Figure 2,000 continuous players and that's 16TB of bandwidth.

Edit: Wild ass guess at bandwidth running about $0.03 a GB. Around $500 a month unless I messed up a zero. Not all that expensive, but more than I'd shell out for free.

Bandwidth is extremely cheap when you are talking about large numbers.

I can get dedicated servers with 4gb of ram on connections that push over 40tb a month for only $90/mo, CPU will be pretty bad, but upgrading CPU only adds a little to the monthly costs.