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Hosting a 1GB website

[stephanwehner]

Hi there,

Let's say you have a database driven website and it has let's say 1GB of content. You can find plans to host such a website for less than 20$. How many visitors will these hosters support (per day)?

Quite plausibly, most of the content is in one database column called "posting" and you provide full text search. Mysql supports that. So what response times can one expect for $20 a month at how many visitors?

Related: How big is the ebay database, and how many servers do they have?

Thanks

Stephan

[ogletree]

It's not about users it's about bandwidth. You need to find out what your average bandwidth per user is and then how many users to expect a day. You only have to worry about monthly averages. You can find a host that will take your monthly average on bandwidth. With a site like that you will have to be carefull about bots stealing the images and hotlinking. Some of these bots will come in and download your whole 1gb db and they might do it often.

[stephanwehner]

Thanks for your reply.

You're saying for a plan with 40GB monthly transfer you divide that by your average webpage size and you get the number of page views you can serve?

So for an average of 100 KB per page, you get 40*1024*1024 KB / 100 KB which is ca. 400,000.

You're saying the database effort is expected to be negligible?

Thanks

Stephan