bandwidth question

[MrMJS]

Hello,

I was wondering how much bandwidth is enough? Is there a chart or guide as to how much equals how many hits... example, 5gb bandwidth = 50,000 page views a month.

[Scally_Ally]

it depends what you site is delivering.
Are there alot of images (lo or hi res), videos, basically anything that will be downloaded to the users browser will increase your need for bandwidth...
I havent seen any standard charts about for this, maybe someone else has though
Ally

[edited by: Scally_Ally at 1:13 pm (utc) on June 7, 2007]

[thecoalman]

In my situation the CPU and MySQL limts will by far be exceeded before the bandwidth usage limits. Right now they run between 50 and 70% of my allowance, on the other hand bandwidth isn't even breaking 1%. The pages are mostly text though. Probably the same for most hosting plans unless as stated above you're serving a lot of video or other large files.

You're suggestion of 5GB for 50,000 pages would be a little high in my situation, I'd peg it more at 1-2GB.

[Matt Probert]

I was wondering how much bandwidth is enough?

I guess you really mean transfer allowance? Bandwidth is the real time transfer rate, some hosts claim to offer ridiculously large amounts of transfer allowance, but then host you on a small shared pipe so that only a few concurrent connections can occur.

Check with your host or prospective host. Pay particular attention to what they charge or what action they take should your site prove popular, you don't want to sign a blank cheque!

Matt