20 GB bandwidth for web hosting!

[Etar]

Hi,

Do you think that 20 GB bandwidth is enough for hosting a website?

Thanks

[Shak]

Etar,

interesting question, similar to "how long is a piece of string" :)

We have servers and accounts allowing us 800GB and also 1 that allows 5GB per month.

all depends how busy your site wil be along with various code/image issues etc.

why did you pick the # 20 out?

Shak

[sidyadav]

> Do you think that 20 GB bandwidth is enough for hosting a website?

If it's one of those "personal websites": definately yes.

If it's a organisation or a local site: yes

If it's a corporate website with no service: yes

If it's a corporate website with a service: yes

If it's a corporate website with a hard-core service: no

Hope that answers your question ;)

Sid

[Etar]

Thank you guys but what do you expect the maximum number of visitors per month that can 20G can accept!

BTW I have a related question: There is another hosting company with unlimited bandwidth and very little, about 40 USD per year, do you think this is real and not trick.

[Etar]

Shak,
>why did you pick the # 20 out?

Because frankly is not expensive about 5 USD per month.

[sidyadav]

> what do you expect the maximum number of visitors per month that can 20G can accept!

20GB can take a lot - one of my sites used to receive about 300 - 400 unqiues a day (don't remember the page views, sorry), and it only ever took about 3 to 4 GB Bandwidth.

> There is another hosting company with unlimited bandwidth and very little, about 40 USD per year, do you think this is real and not trick.

One way to see if the hosting company does exist, is to track its IP address, and use the Whois.sc reverse IP tool to find out what other sites are hosted on that IP.

If the number is more than 20 - it's definately real.

But also check if the IP address resolves to the company's name itself - and not to someone else, as it maybe a reseller or have a normal hosting account (in other words -> scam).

Sid

[Etar]

sidyadav,

>20GB can take a lot - one of my sites used to receive about 300 - 400
Just 300-400 per day! are you sure?

[danieljean]

$40 buys you 1 hour of my support time... Unless a hosting company is extremely efficient in dealing with customers and/or outsources its support off-shore, I have a hard time seeing how they could make money and still provide decent support for that little money.

Unlimited bandwidth is nice, good support is better.

To figure out how much bandwidth you need, take a look at the amount of bandwidth used by your average visitor. 10 pages per visit, with 50k per page? That's 500k. At that rate, you can have 40,000 visitors before you use up your 20G.

Bandwidth, even at dirt-cheap wholesale prices will cost more than $5 for 20G. They only way they can afford to sell that is because 95%+ of users will never even approach that level of use.

[danieljean]

Etar- 300-400 unique visitors per day using 3-4 G a month does not sound too far out!

100 visitors/day for 1G/month => that's 300k per visitor

[Etar]

>If the number is more than 20 - it's definately real

I do not think so, I hosted my website for one years in like this webhosting company and my visitors did not increase more than 500 per day and some times the navigation become very slow!
and this company take about 300 websites hosting.

Thanks

[vrtlw]

One way to see if the hosting company does exist, is to track its IP address, and use the Whois.sc reverse IP tool to find out what other sites are hosted on that IP.

This will only work if the hosting company shares IP addresses with their clients. If they offer dedicated IP addresses you may only see 1 site in the reverse lookup.