Traffic Mb load (cost) and AdSense income

how much doy you feel is a reasonable balance?

[Gusgsm]

For those (many?) of us that try to pay the expense of having a site (I mean: The afficionados, not the Adsense pros), how much traffic does a dollar of Adsense cost?

I mean, if I make, for instace ,100 $ AdS income per each 10Gb (monthly speaking), is that good/so-so/bad?

I know that for many people that must sound an outlandish question, but as traffic load is raising I would like to hear other people in the low-lands of hobbyst paying Adsense (or almost) experiences.

Thanks :)

[Zygoot]

I did a quick check and I'm getting roughly $90 AdSense income per GB transferred.

[Pengi]

If I understand my stats correctly - then for September I achieved $5k from 0.6 GBytes

[Bddmed]

I also made a rough estimate. For last month it was about $40 per Gb.
But does it really matter? Bandwidth is soooooo cheap nowadays that I really never worried about that aspect. Unless you have a download site of course.

[Gusgsm]

You are right, it shouldn't be a trouble

But, if you are not a very big site and you are under stupid downloaders and stupid bots and awful spammer-machines scrutiny, then the tiny income to pay expenses starts to be a "Achilles catching the turtle" business: The more traffic, the more income, the more traffic... And then comes Adsense revisions and you are caught high and dry with bigger costs than needed because your bandwidth expense - income rate is overbuilt.

[moTi]

14$/gb on average in last 6 months for me.

i don't care, as i have no traffic limits on my server.

[Genuine1]

I use free hosting (!) so the 100k+ earned so far was free...

And I have no idea of bandwidth used since freeserve/orange/wannado/virgin etc dont inform me!

Although virgin threatened to throw me off once because I was their second highest bandwidth user.

[edited by: martinibuster at 4:19 am (utc) on Oct. 7, 2006]
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[wyweb]

30.00 per gig.

Interesting question.

[jetteroheller]

Above $100 per GB

[jema]

I'm way way lower than the other figures people have quoted, I don't see why people worry when their costs are so insignificant.

[leolapinos]

10$ per Giga
But as said above, traffic is dead cheap

[vordmeister]

I'm making $17 per Gb, and each Gb bandwidth costs me about $0.50 (you can get them cheaper, but mine are high quality Gbs). The real cost is in time researching and writing pages.

[ronburk]

Of course, websites serving similar content can vary widely in their bandwidth costs. One site might use HTML generated by a complex tool that contains tons of white space and content, and transmit no caching information to clients. Another site could use HTML that was generated to have no extraneous whitespace/comments, cached CSS to handle much of the layout complexity for the entire site, and transmit HTTP headers to let clients aggressively cache graphics/JavaScript/CSS/etc.

The difference can easily be an order of magnitude lower bandwidth cost.

[Khensu]

Presently

$8K per 2 Terabytes, free graphics downloads, 24 - 20 meg zip files.

I have a contract with my ISP for unlimited bandwidith for $25 per month (you gotta love that).

[andrewshim]

If I understand last month's stats correctly, then I made approx $150 per Gig. Mainly text based content. Just need mooooooooooore traaaaaaafic!

[Khensu]

So that would be $4 per GB if my math is correct.

[motorhaven]

Cost per meg and income per meg are totally useless figures to me. My server tranfers over a terabyte each month and the number that counts is income after expenses. At my level of traffic a few gig doesn't make a single cent of difference in expenses but it sure does bring in more $.

[Maxima]

~6$ per GB.

Although I have over 1TB of bandwidth going to waste everymonth, as my dedicated server allows me to use much more bandwidth than I really use.

[edited by: Maxima at 5:22 am (utc) on Oct. 7, 2006]

[darkmage]

You can get good reliable hosting for about $20 per month - about 300-500GB download. There are other deals around that for a few more dollars, you can take this to 1000 gigabytes (for about $100 a year, you can get about 30-50GB a month.)

So unless you are going over these limits, the cost is fixed at about $20 per month. If you use 10GB or 100GB it doesn't matter. The cost is the same.

So all you need to do is insure that you are getting about $0.70 a day from Adsense and you are covering the cost.

I worked out that it costs more in electricity to run a home or office desktop PC than the cost of hosting a site. Ok, you don't need to leave it on all the time, but it goes to show how insignifiacnt bandwidth costs are.

In short, if you are generating more 500GB of downloads and not getting more than $20 a month from Adsense (or in total), it is time to reconsider your whole strategy.

Finally, a low-graphic text based site would need to generate about 5,000,000-20,000,000 page imps to hit 500GB. At a lowly $1 ecpm from adsense, this is $5000-$20,000 per month. Compare that to $20 hosting and you'll see how insignificant the cost can be.

[nonni]

Let's ask the question from the opposite angle ... how many electrons do you need to use to generate a dollar of adsense?

Sorry ... its late night Saturday and I am having too much fun. :)

[OptiRex]

$100+ per GB

Enough to pay the bills:-)